Margaret Simons on Media

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Mainstream Media Came to the Party – Lateish

December 29, 2008 – 3:45 pm

On December 19 near Kings Cross in Sydney a man was detained and threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act.
How do we know? Not thanks to the mainstream media, but because of Twitter and the blogosphere, including young media workers who are below the radar of most mainstream journalists.
The person who was threatened, new-media-man-about-the-web Nick [...]

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Signs of Hope – A New Australian Publication

December 11, 2008 – 10:21 am

It’s been a week for banging on in conventional ain’t it awful ways about our major newspaper companies, and while all this is indeed cause for concern and must be documented, it gets my goat, because I don’t really feel gloomy at all about the future of media.
While I know we are going through a [...]

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Starting Out.

December 4, 2008 – 3:00 pm

I was talking to a young journalist the other day who told me that she had recently gone out and organised herself a newspaper subscription – not because she needs it. She reads everything online. She did it because she felt sorry for newspapers, they were struggling so much. She wanted to support the medium [...]

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