What happens next after job loss in journalism?

In 2012, the Australian news media experienced the most serious contraction in its history. In a research article published in the journal Journalism Practice, my research colleagues and I examine how Australian journalists respond to job loss and workforce contraction.
The article reports the results of a pilot survey of 95 Australian journalists who lost their jobs as a result of industry restructuring and the shift to digital-first news production at Australia’s two major newspaper companies in mid-2012.
The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the national trade union of media workers, calculated that around 1,000 journalists were made redundant or lost their jobs in the aftermath of the restructuring, with further losses of between 500 and 1,000 jobs in the 2013–2014 period, for an overall decline of around 20 per cent in Australia’s mainstream journalistic workforce.
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