Wrong's parting shot was that she "couldn't wait" for resolution of the all-consuming issue for online news, "when things currently being offered for free find their market value".Īs Downie acknowledged, Wrong sort of summed up what he wanted to say in about three minutes. Wrong added that outside contributors such as herself would be reduced to sources from academic institutions, people with books to promote, or the independently wealthy. In a professional environment characterised by falling interest in international affairs, and of amateurism and parochialism, they're turning to other things – because they just can't make it work for them. Michela Wrong, who won this year's James Cameron award for foreign journalism, hit paydirt with a big audience in the lecture hall at City University on Wednesday night when she talked about what's happening to people employed in the sector. Leonard Downie Jr's topography of the emerging digital landscape in the US was an uplifting analysis of a sector that is badly hurting from the longest recession for 30 years.
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