Journalists & Job Loss

Journalists and Job Loss explores the profound disruption of journalism work in the 21st century’s networked digital media environment.

The chapters analyse how journalists have experienced and navigated job loss, re-employment, career change and career re-invention as traditional patterns of newsroom employment give way to occupational change, income insecurity and precarious work in journalism globally. The authors showcase the design, methodology and results of the New Beats project, a ground-breaking longitudinal study of change in the work of Australian journalists, as well as related case studies of job loss and career change in journalism based on research in different national settings across the global North and global South. The book also considers the wider implications of changes in journalism work for media sustainability, gender equity, and journalism work futures.

The book provides a theoretically informed and empirically grounded analysis of job loss and the new contours of journalistic work in a critical political, cultural, economic, and social industry. It will be an important resource for researchers and students in disciplines including journalism, media and communication studies, business, and the social sciences in general.

Timothy Marjoribanks is Professor of Management at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Lawrie Zion is Professor of Journalism at La Trobe University, Australia

Penny O’Donnell is Senior Lecturer in International Media and Journalism at The University of Sydney, Australia

Merryn Sherwood is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at La Trobe University, Australia