When journalists lose their jobs

Thursday, 24 May 2018 - 6:00pm to 6:30pm

In Febrary this year a senate inquiry into the current state of public interest journalism noted that an massive 2,500 editorial jobs had been cut from media organizations in Australia since 2011. This month, in the latest round of job losses the ABC announced a further twenty journalists would be dropped from newsgathering teams.

So what happens when journalists are made redundant? Researching this question through a project called New Beats, Lawrie Zion from the Department of Media and Communication at La Trobe University explains. (This interview was first broadcast in May 2017)