Merryn Sherwood

TL;DR: This article explored the aftermath of job loss in journalism in 2012, a year of dramatic press industry restructuring in Australia, and found that, in practical terms, the Australian journalists had relatively better than expected post-job loss experiences.

TL;DR: The authors found that professional identity was likely to fade post-job loss, which indicates that identity may be more closely linked to a journalism work context, and the loss of institutional legitimacy may also be affecting the respondents' current journalism pra...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored whether Australian newspaper sport journalists use Web 2.0, the second generation of the internet, in their work and, if they do, how.

TL;DR: This article explored women's sports coverage using a different perspective, exploring cases where women's sport gained coverage and found that small, subtle changes to the three newswork elements that had previously relegated the coverage of women sports now facilitated it.

TL;DR: This article found that while just over 60% of respondents continued to work wholly or partly in journalism roles, income loss was significant across the board and older workers faced the most significant drop in income.