Julie Szego is an independent journalist who writes on Substack, a self-publishing platform.A former lawyer, she has spent much of her 25-year journalism career writing for The Age as a senior writer, leader writer and until last year as a regular columnist.
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Journalism and its Discontents
In The Constitution of Knowledge Jonathan Rauch argues that the key institutions of liberal democracies – academia, law, government and journalism – all build knowledge through gathering evidence and testing it against different viewpoints. But journalism appears to have lost its way. So what has gone wrong, how did we get to this moment and...