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Journalism is reaching crisis point and “clickable outrageous lies” are winning

A prominent Australian academic believes the fresh culling of journalist jobs across the country will put the industry in crisis and give rise to more ‘fake news factories’. Margaret Simons, a prominent Melbourne academic and Director of the Centre for…

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17/04/2017

Journalism is reaching crisis point and “clickable outrageous lies” are winning

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Press gazette launches Facebook Google duopoly campaign

A British publication for the journalism industry has launched a campaign to expose the duopoly of Facebook and Google, and stop the two destroying the UK journalism industry. Press Gazette, a publication that has focused on journalism issues for over…

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12/04/2017

Press gazette launches Facebook Google duopoly campaign

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Thomson Reuters is slashing jobs

Thomson Reuters will cut 2,000 jobs from its global workforce but none of these redundancies are likely to affect newsroom numbers. The financial news and data organisation believes the move will “simplify and streamline” operations and will mostly affect two…

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28/11/2016