Nick Franklin talks to Dr Lee Duffield about the closure of local and regional newspapers by the Murdoch press, and the future of journalism. They discuss the possibilities of a changing media landscape for local journalism and for journalists, and the rise of independent media.
Duffield is a media editor for Independent Australia.
"He has been practising and teaching journalism for over 40 years. With the ABC he was the first news editor on the youth radio service, Triple-Jay, and the Europe correspondent at the fall of the Berlin Wall."
"Until 2017, he was a senior lecturer in journalism at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane and continues to follow research interests in new media, European media and development news, notably in the Pacific region."
In Part 1 of this series, Nick Franklin spoke to ABC Alumni Matt Peacock about the decimation of the ABC via ongoing budget and staffing cuts.
This episode was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 19th June 2020. The image in the logo is from the Katoomba Times 1889.
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