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Inside Nine's journalism cuts: 'Quite a few people suspected retribution'
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If you pick up a copy of The Age or The Sydney Morning Herald, you’ll see the tagline ‘Independent. Always.’ under the masthead.
Now, as journalists at those papers reel from an announcement that Nine Entertainment is slashing 200 jobs across the company, some are wondering if they’re being targeted for the papers’ recent coverage of Nine’s troubled culture.
Are the cuts payback for certain papers being too independent?
Today, National Correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe on why Australian media is struggling and what the future of independent news looks like.
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Guest: National Correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Mike Seccombe
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