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The world’s weather is changing and the media needs to keep up. Flickr/Shannon Dizmang

July 4, 2019

Media Files: Washington Post weather editor Jason Samenow on how weather coverage is evolving – and building audience growth

Andrea Carson, La Trobe University and Lawrie Zion, La Trobe University

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The Washington Post's weather editor explains how digital media changed the way we connect to the weather, and why it's wrong for weather editors to leave climate change out of the discussion.

For many respondents, leaving a newsroom has allowed a re-evaluation of work-life balance. Mal Fairclough/AAP

December 4, 2018

New research reveals how Australian journalists are faring four years after redundancy

Lawrie Zion, La Trobe University; Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne; Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University; Merryn Sherwood, La Trobe University; Monika Winarnita, La Trobe University; Penny O'Donnell, University of Sydney, and Timothy Marjoribanks, Swinburne University of Technology

Since leaving secure jobs in newsrooms, employment has been unstable for many former journalists – but job satisfaction has been surprisingly high.

The stereotype of the conventionally attractive female weather reporter is alive and well on Australian television. Azuzl/shutterstock.com

August 1, 2017

‘Just do the weather’: does it matter if TV weather presenters aren’t experts?

Lawrie Zion, La Trobe University

The weather segment at the end of news bulletins has stuck to a familiar format for more than 50 years. But the question of who should actually present the weather has been in a constant state of flux.

With every round of redundancies, significant questions arise around the long-term viability of mainstream news media in Australia. AAP/David Moir

May 9, 2017

Life after redundancy: what happens next for journalists when they leave newsrooms

Lawrie Zion, La Trobe University; Andrew Dodd, Swinburne University of Technology; Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University; Merryn Sherwood, La Trobe University; Penny O'Donnell, University of Sydney, and Tim Marjoribanks, La Trobe University

There is lingering anger among journalists made redundant that expertise and experience seem to have become disposable assets in newsrooms.

Fairfax journalists strike in Melbourne in 2012. Around 15% of the Australian journalist workforce was made redundant last year. AAP Image/Julian Smith)

December 1, 2013

New beats: where do redundant journalists go?

Lawrie Zion, La Trobe University

You’ve probably heard the news: the Australian media is experiencing the most serious contraction in its history. The rise of online and mobile media has led to the collapse of the classified advertising…

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