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School hours vs Work hours It doesn't add up.... Mamamia Co-Founder and media icon Mia Freedman joined Kate Watson on The Newsmakers podcast to talk about: 🟣her approach to content, 🟣thoughts on cancel culture, 🟣life as a working parent, 🟣the challenges facing young men today, 🟣and even…Botox. They covered it all in this hour of power and it’s well worth a listen 🎧 https://lnkd.in/g45dUKPK #podcastrecommendation #mediaindustry #workingparents #workingfamilies

“Right now, I think if you were gonna be a slightly corrupt counsellor or a slightly dodgy cop in a small town, now's the time to do it because there aren't people on the ground watching. They just aren't.” That was Annabelle Hickson, founder of regional magazine Galah Press from an interview I did with her a few weeks ago in response to my question about the challenges facing local news outlets. It hit home. So Newsmakers this week is with Claire Stuchbery - the CEO of LINA: Local & Independent News Association. In our conversation, Claire points to some examples of where local reporting has been able to combat misinformation and surface stories that would not have been told otherwise. Most of us would agree this is important work. But if the business model doesn’t stack up, that means the ability for these newsrooms to continue is threatened. Claire doesn’t sugarcoat that reality. So the question becomes what does an Australia without local news look like? Claire is one person who’s doing her best to ensure we don’t find out. https://lnkd.in/gZREjkRT

As a Parliamentary Inquiry into social media unfurls in our nation's capital, I make the case for mandatory media literacy education in primary schools in this op-ed published this weekend in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Just as we were taught sun safety by Sid The Seagull and road safety by Hector The Cat - and in the same way we teach kids to swim before letting them loose at the beach - we need to be teaching kids to be critical consumers of information BEFORE they get a smartphone in their hands. And Squiz Kids' free media literacy program, Newshounds, is doing just that - with over 2,600 Australian primary school teachers signed up already. Given events in the US over the weekend, and the firestorm of conspiracy theories they have sparked on social media, it seems to me there's never been a more important time. https://lnkd.in/eQadfmXu

As a Parliamentary Inquiry into social media unfurls in our nation's capital, I make the case for mandatory media literacy education in primary schools in this op-ed published this weekend in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Just as we were taught sun safety by Sid The Seagull and road safety by Hector The Cat - and in the same way we teach kids to swim before letting them loose at the beach - we need to be teaching kids to be critical consumers of information BEFORE they get a smartphone in their hands. And Squiz Kids' free media literacy program, Newshounds, is doing just that - with over 2,600 Australian primary school teachers signed up already. Given events in the US over the weekend, and the firestorm of conspiracy theories they have sparked on social media, it seems to me there's never been a more important time. https://lnkd.in/eQadfmXu