Journalists and Job Loss

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

List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Understanding Job Loss Among Journalists; 1. Understanding Job Loss Among Journalists; Part I. A New Field of Study: What Happens Next After Job Loss in Journalism; 2. Australian Journalists: Adapting to Redundancy Over Time; 3. Passion and Precarity: Producing Public Interest Journalism After Job Loss; 4. Newly Branded: The Experiences of Post-Redundancy Journalists Who Go on to Work in Public Relations; 5. Understanding Loss in Legacy Newsrooms; 6. Job Loss and Unionism in Australian Journalism; Part II. Towards World-Wide Understanding: Case Studies of the Aftermath of Job Loss in the Global North and South; 7. Living on the Edge: U.S. Newspaper Journalism Following the Great Exodus; 8. Finland: Shock and Relief; 9. The Netherlands: Making it Work; 10. Not ‘Just Another Job’: Journalism as Public Service; 11. Indonesian Women Journalists and Precarious Work; 12. Traumatic Transitions and Loss: How Journalists in South Africa Experience Job Loss; 13. Plan B: The Abandonment of Journalism in Portugal; Part III. Beyond Newsrooms: Job Loss, Media Sustainability, and Work Futures; 14. Down, But Not Out: Journalism Jobs and Media Sustainability in the UK; 15. The Job is Only Part of the Story: Understanding Job Loss in Journalism Through Livelihood; 16. Freelance Journalists in Australia at a Time of Industry Contraction and COVID-19