{"id":2034,"date":"2007-05-06T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T10:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2007-05-06T10:09:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T10:09:12","slug":"the-state-of-the-australian-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2034","title":{"rendered":"The state of the Australian media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barista provides an <a href = \"http:\/\/barista.media2.org\/?p=3104\">excellent summary<\/a> of recent changes in the Australian media and its likely future direction &#8211; particularly the purchase of Rural Press by the Fairfax group. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a specialist interest, but of particular interest to me, since I worked for one and nearly worked for the other. I was lined up to do a cadetship on the <i>Sydney Morning Herald<\/i> until young Warwick came in and took over the company in one of those disastrous late-eighties takeover swoops that meant an immediate staff freeze.<\/p>\n<p>And I did work experience at <i>The Land<\/i>, which was at the time Rural Press&#8217;s only paper &#8211; and owe a lot to the patient chief sub there who first taught me to turn 100cm of detailed notes into a 30cm news story. (My first story published was on chital deer: I still have it somewhere.)<\/p>\n<p>And then at the <i>Cootamundra Herald<\/i> I worked for Rural Press and later the <i>Northern Daily Leader<\/i>, indeed directly with Brian McCarthy, who I see has risen to great heights, which surprises me not at all. If you want a man to &#8220;control&#8221; your costs, I&#8217;d reckon he&#8217;d be it.<\/p>\n<p>Nostalgia? No!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barista provides an excellent summary of recent changes in the Australian media and its likely future direction &#8211; particularly the purchase of Rural Press by the Fairfax group. Perhaps a specialist interest, but of particular interest to me, since I worked for one and nearly worked for the other. I was lined up to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}