Australia’s media industry is in dire straits. Amid big tech deals drying up and falling revenues in a soft advertising market, newsrooms are resorting to widespread redundancies as a stopgap. Journalists are doing more with less as outlets compete for eyeballs in a cost of living crisis. But is that your problem? Or rather, should taxpayers bail out journalism? That’s the question our debaters are throwing around in this week’s Friday Fight. Arguing the negative we have professor of economics Chris Berg. And for the affirmative corner we have Tim Burrowes, owner of the media industry newsletter Unmade.
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