Open AccessREVIEW: Some bright spots in the gloom
Author(s) -
Philip Cass
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v19i2.232
Subject(s) - gloom , newspaper , acknowledgement , journalism , project commissioning , publishing , media studies , state (computer science) , political science , public relations , sociology , law , computer security , algorithm , neuroscience , computer science , biology
According to this collection of essays, Australian journalism is in a parlous state, beset by public mistrust, new demands of technology, the insidious influence of public relations and the greed and short-sightedness of newspaper proprietors. We have been here before, of course, and journalists and good reporting have managed to survive, but the challenges are bigger than they have been in the past. Neither have journalists had to contend with quite such a lack of acknowledgement of their professional status.