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Published
Scribe Publications, September 2012
ISBN
9781922070203
Format
Softcover, 144 pages
Dimensions
20.9cm × 13.7cm × 1.3cm

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The future of journalism is uncertain. In response to plunging sales and profitability, and an inexorable increase in online and social-media platforms, the Fairfax and News Limited organisations have embarked on major cost-cutting and restructuring exercises.

Hundreds of journalists' jobs will be shed, printing plants will close, and The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald - our formerly iconic broadsheet dailies - will soon be downsized to a tabloid format. Journalist, educator, and media commentator Margaret Simons explores the challenges and discusses the opportunities they might represent. She considers the role of journalist in this new media landscape, why we still need quality news reporting, how new technologies can enhance traditional reporting and how media organisations can reinvigorate their newsrooms by engaging directly with the community.

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