Fairfax chief Greg Hywood fronts Senate journalism inquiry – as it happend
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Chief executive appears before inquiry into public interest journalism to face questions about job cuts, a week-long strike by staff and a $2.7bn offer to buy the company.
Hywood makes a last pitch to young people to get into journalism, and says the quality has never been higher.
He says many will get jobs, and “it’s incredibly exciting”, and media companies train people.
That’s where we’ll leave the inquiry for now. Stay tuned to the Guardian Australia homepage for further coverage.
Senator Kitching asks Hywood whether some Fairfax staff call him the Marie Antoinette of Fairfax #PIJ
— Mark Di Stefano (@MarkDiStef) 17 May 2017
Do you guys?
"The ABC has gone into the provision of free news online," Hywood says, criticising public broadcaster for using $$ to drive traffic
— Shalailah Medhora (@shalailah) 17 May 2017
Hywood says if ABC News was not a popular, high traffic website, no problem, it still fulfills its mandate #PIJ
— Mark Di Stefano (@MarkDiStef) 17 May 2017
....As a working journalist, I can tell you without a second's hesitation that ownership matters & diversity matters #PIJ
— Katharine Murphy (@murpharoo) 17 May 2017
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