Canberra Times: The real threat to newspapers comes from quality not quantity
Sunday, 31 August 2008, 11:29
"The big challenge for any professional journalist … is that a good proportion of readers probably more than 30 per cent here know more about your subject than you do … This reader is in a very good position to know where a journalist is right or wrong, to guess about the sources of different perspectives or angles introduced into a story, or to decide whether a report adds value to what was already known. One's reputation ultimately depends on this market's assessment of one's reliability. And it is from this 'knowing' audience that one gets most of one's stories."
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 10:10
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‘[Australian] company Fairfax has admitted its journalists are too old to attract the next generation of readers. … "
Friday, 7 December 2007, 11:42
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New floor-to-ceiling panels in the newsroom of News Corp’s Australian rival Fairfax show a picture of… Rupert Murdoch.
