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Q&A with Bruce Grundy: ‘So you want to be a journalist?’ Unplugged

Q&A with Bruce Grundy: ‘So you want to be a journalist?’ Unplugged Commentaries Asia Pacific Media Educator Q&A with Bruce Grundy 22(2) 237–241 © 2012 University of ‘So you want to be a journalist?’ Wollongong, Australia SAGE Publications Unplugged Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC DOI: 10.1177/1326365X13498170 http://ame.sagepub.com Joshua Cole The sky may not be falling, but it is looking shaky for aspiring journalists. In place of the Sydney Morning Herald and the evening news are myriad blogs, aggregators and social media feeds. Newspapers are laying off staff in record numbers and television networks pursue more aggressive marketing campaigns as their traditional audiences drift away. Journalists in Australia have been witness to drastic job cuts with Fairfax Media laying off 1900 in mid-2012 alone, and News Limited drew the ire of the ACTU (Australia Council of Trade Unions) after breaking a pledge to keep it informed regarding layoffs. Both companies have outsourced subediting to Pagemasters as a cost-cutting measure. Pagemasters is a subsidiary of the Australian Associated Press. The United States has been no friendlier to its press, with industry watchdog Paper Cuts reporting that at least 1,850 journalists lost their jobs in 2012. 2013 is not shaping up to be much better, with the closure of online publication http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asia Pacific Media Educator SAGE

Q&A with Bruce Grundy: ‘So you want to be a journalist?’ Unplugged

Cole, Joshua
Asia Pacific Media Educator , Volume 22 (2): 5 – Dec 1, 2012
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Commentaries Asia Pacific Media Educator Q&A with Bruce Grundy 22(2) 237–241 © 2012 University of ‘So you want to be a journalist?’ Wollongong, Australia SAGE Publications Unplugged Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC DOI: 10.1177/1326365X13498170 http://ame.sagepub.com Joshua Cole The sky may not be falling, but it is looking shaky for aspiring journalists. In place of the Sydney Morning Herald and the evening news are myriad blogs, aggregators and social media feeds. Newspapers are laying off staff in record numbers and television networks pursue more aggressive marketing campaigns as their traditional audiences drift away. Journalists in Australia have been witness to drastic job cuts with Fairfax Media laying off 1900 in mid-2012 alone, and News Limited drew the ire of the ACTU (Australia Council of Trade Unions) after breaking a pledge to keep it informed regarding layoffs. Both companies have outsourced subediting to Pagemasters as a cost-cutting measure. Pagemasters is a subsidiary of the Australian Associated Press. The United States has been no friendlier to its press, with industry watchdog Paper Cuts reporting that at least 1,850 journalists lost their jobs in 2012. 2013 is not shaping up to be much better, with the closure of online publication

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