Tim Burrowes, formerly the editor of B&T Magazine and now the guy behind the excellent mumbrella blog about media and marketing, invited me to write a guest post there today. Excerpt and link below.

clipped from mumbrella.com.au

Guest post: If you want an independent media start supporting it

As Mumbrella reported earlier this week, The Podcast Network, headed by Cameron Reilly, is facing a funding crisis. Here Reilly – who presents G’Day World, Australia’s first podcast – argues  for the importance of an independent media in a rapidly changing landscape.

cameron reilly1 | Guest post: If you want an independent media start supporting it | opinion | MumbrellaFor years I have debated Australian journalists and newspaper editors trying to explain that the writing was on the wall  – not because of a technology shift but because of an economic shift enabled by technology. In every debate, I was told “we’re going to be here forever”.