Growing public distrust and dissatisfaction in legacy and mainstream media outlets is partly fuelling the growth of independent media in Australia, an industry panel discussion has said.
Speaking at the annual Central News ‘Journos in the Pub’ talk at the Abercrombie Hotel in Broadway, Bernard Keane, Crikey‘s political editor, and Kalila Welch, editor of Cheek Media, told UTS journalism students the upsurge in new media had been enabled by technological advances, but was fuelled by the public’s increasing awareness of one-sided narratives and commercially compromised editorial positions existing in traditional media.
To see the full talk click on the video.
