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It’s time to tell it like it is. Today Crawford Media begins, a weekly newsletter covering news about news in Australia and New Zealand. For me, the newsletter is long overdue, but for the media environment we’re now in it couldn’t be more timely. In New Zealand, the first round of the Public Interest Journalism […]
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