by Jason Romney, 16 December 2008
When will the media road kill end? As more media CEOs and editors-in-chief bite the dust, the industry’s navel gazing deepens. But born fresh on this battlefield is a new 21st century news service. Jason Romney explains.
It is a time of unprecedented turmoil in the news media as the industry takes a long hard look at its economics and technological delivery systems and realises the public may now want something quite different from its news. And change means roadkill. Fairfax’s CEO David Kirk. The Herald Sun’s editor-in-chief Bruce Guthrie. Not to mention the hundreds of working journalists, out of a job and wondering what hit them and their industry (see Mark Day’s review [blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au]... More...