Tropic Wonder: community-first focus in Cairns and surrounding regions
“We question, probe, investigate, inform, entertain and educate. We’re there for the highs and the lows, and we hold people to account.”
Regional Newspapers Inquiry
PIJI’s submission to the Regional Newspapers Inquiry was informed by data from our Australian News Data Project. It recommended a tax rebate for public interest journalism and for the funding and development of a project to gather and analyse core longitudinal data on regional newspapers. In March 2022 the inquiry adopted a number of PIJI’s recommendations into its final report. […]
Bucking the trend: Building a newsroom in regional Australia
By Eliza Berlage Senior Journalist, Naracoorte Community News South Australia’s south-east region continues to have one of the largest losses of media jobs and outlets in the country, a worrying trend for a highly populated and valuable area. Between 2006 and 2016 the region recorded a 3.5 per cent decline in the number of journalism jobs, the […]