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Australia's media industry shed 5,000 journalists to survive – what does this mean for those who left, and those left behind?

  • Written by Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Communication, Deakin University
Australia's media industry shed 5,000 journalists to survive – what does this mean for those who left, and those left behind?Lukas Coch/AAP

In the 2000s, the internet shredded the media’s business model. The media’s influence fragmented and many employees paid the price.

Between 2012 and 2016, thousands of Australian journalists lost their jobs in large redundancy rounds as the industry scrambled to try to stay alive. The bulk of redundancies happened in...

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