Seismic Shifts In News (FiST Chat 74)

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Traditional print media is under siege. In Australia, both Fairfax and News Corporation have announced huge restructures and layoffs with a trend towards tabloid journalism and online content delivery. Steve and Ben discuss the issues surrounding this and the impacts on news for the future. Other topics covered this week include Sony's roll-out of 13,000 4K cinema projectors, Melbourne's recent Earthquake, the Microsoft Surface Tablet and the Gigapixel camera.

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FiST Chat: A weekly vodcast that features discussion on the topics of film, science and technology. Hosted by Stephan Kern and Ben Warner.

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Tags

• film
• science
• Technology
• print media
• journalism
• news corporation
• fairfax
• tabloid
• earthquake
• sony
• 4K
• gigapixel
• camera
• news