Kishor Napier-Raman, Louise Milligan, Ben Schneiders, Gabrielle Jackson and Peter Lalor (Image: Private Media) It’s been a long year, and Australian journalism has covered a lot of stories with nuance and close attention. But what subjects aren’t being covered enough? We surveyed more than 200 of Australia’s biggest media figures — journalists, editors, defamation lawyers, academics — to hear what stories are falling by the wayside, and who’s doing the best at serving their readers with specialised coverage. What they shared has formed the backbone of a multi-part Crikey series, Movers and Shakers , holding a mirror up to the industry and asking it to reflect on itself.
We emailed everyone the same eight questions and about one in four got back to us. It was an imperfect list — if we missed you, let us know for next year — but we contacted people from the following outlets: Nine’s major metropolitan mastheads as well as people in its broadcast divisions, The Australian Financial Review , Network Ten, Seven, SBS, the ABC, 2GB, Sky News Australia, Guardian Australia , the News Corp newspapers, The Conversation , Daily Mail Australia , Australian Associated Press, Apple News, Mamamia , Pedestrian and Schwartz Media. We also included journalism academics, media lawyers and industry body executives, as well as people from smaller outlets like The Nightly , Quillette , Unmade , Capital Brief , the Koori Mail , About Time , The Daily Aus, Women’s Agenda , Indigen.
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