The succession has happened and legacy media lost

It's way past time to find and fund better ways of doing public-interest journalism

The Australian Government’s “media bargaining code”, which forced Facebook/Meta and Google to pay certain media companies for “use” of their content, was always flawed, and I opposed it from the beginning. It was predicated on a dangerously outdated idea of how contemporary, digitalised media works. This meant it threw good money after bad by propping u…