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'News Deserts: A worrying portent for our democracy' by Johanna Leggatt

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The ABR Podcast 01 April 2020

'News Deserts: A worrying portent for our democracy' by Johanna Leggatt

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The ABR Podcast 01 April 2020

The imminent closure of Australian Associated Press, or AAP, has sounded alarm bells for many citizens and journalists already worried about the lack of media diversity in Australia. AAP has long played a fundamental role in investigative journalism, which we need more than ever in an age of government intrusion, evasion, and over-reach. Johanna Leggatt, a journalist who has worked for Fairfax, News Corp, and AAP, writes about this troubling threat to journalism.


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Music credit: 'The Light-filtering Canopy (Instrumental)' by Chad Crouch is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

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