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04.02.09Media Industry Luminary Predicts Closure of Two Major Australian Metro Broadsheet Newspapers[caption id="attachment_496" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Crikey's Eric Beecher"][/caption] Eric Beecher (Publisher of Crikey) painted a dark future for the print versions of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspaper during a panel discussion for ABC Radio's Saturday Extra program earlier today. The discussion 'Quality Journalism: How to Pay for it? Does it Matter?' focused on the future of print journalism in Australia, new business models and the concept of public trust journalism. Pointing to the fact that few cities internationally are able to sustain two daily newspapers (many are struggling to sustain one), Beecher made the point that News Corporation with The ...
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03.11.09Reflections of a day immersed in social media of one type or another #atsyd Ad:tech09Regular readers will know that I attended the Ad:tech Sydney 09 conference today. It was an enjoyable and interesting event. Later in the pub, we talked about Facebook quite a lot. Even later, we talked about social media or at least I did. We were at the Hopetoun in Surry Hills to see Pivot. Pivot were supported by a group called Seekae, strangers to me this group rocked and made themselves a hard act to follow. I found out about the secret concert via Facebook, funnily enough; Pivot who are from Perth were performing under the name of Fire Island ...
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