Aussie media looks to tech giants – again – to stay afloat
ANALYSIS: The media industry has been in limbo since an earlier funding agreement expired in March, but hopes Government threats can now break the deadlock.
WATCH: NBR senior journalist Lachlan Colquhoun speaks with Hamish McNicol.
As in New Zealand, Australian media and journalism is in crisis.
A long decline has gone from the classic slow demise by a thousand cuts to a point where, if Australian journalism was a patient, it would be on life support and loved ones would be being consulted.