We all know that the last decade has been a turbulent time for journalism. The steady stream of journalist job losses in Australia was the catalyst for the development…
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Before this year, the lion’s share of journalism redundancies in Australia were in the capital cities. But over the last twelve months regional centres have experienced a serious contraction in...
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On Wednesday June 3, the Melbourne Press Club hosted the lunchtime panel discussion, “Beyond the Big ‘R’: Life after Redundancy”. The discussion was moderated by Lawrie Zion, and panellists included Louise Graham…
Wendy Hargreaves started as a cadet journalist when typewriters, ash trays and hot metal presses were still in regular use. She has reported on health, education, politics, police, courts and…
With a bit of a nudge from her two tech-savvy sons, Veronica Ridge left The Age – and a great job as a senior editor – in October 2012 in…
On Wednesday June 3, the Melbourne Press Club is holding a lunchtime panel discussion featuring three journalists who’ve taken redundancy and discovered life beyond the metropolitan newsrooms. On the panel will be former…
The findings from our New Beats pilot study completed in 2013 have been published in the journal Journalism Practice. The article, “Where do journalists go after newsroom job cuts?” is…
In 2012 more than 1,000 Australian journalists became redundant. More than 500 more have taken a redundancy package since then. Where are they now? What will happen to them in…
We’re very pleased to report that our research project has just been awarded funding of $270,756 to be spread across the next three years through the ARC Linkage project scheme….
This article was first published in The Conversation on Monday December 2, 2013. We’re republishing it in keeping with that site’s republishing guidlines. New beats: where do redundant journalists go?…