In this month’s Double Take podcast, CMT Researcher Dr. Timothy Koskie talks media diversity and regional media with Genevieve Jacobs , whose Canberra based Region Media Group hosts a variety of regional online news sources that service local communities across NSW.
Genevieve has seen the bigger picture of media transition across a 30-year history in journalism. Now she’s building a new regional media organisation with offerings that include RiotAct and AboutRegional. Region Media is expanding too – its most recent acquisition was the Cape York Weekly in far northern Queensland with coverage that extends to the Torres Strait Islands. Navigating the rough waters of rapid media transitions, she has first-hand exposure to Australia’s sizable and underserved communities lying outside of its capital cities.
Our Double Take conversation touches on how an absence of media diversity is experienced by these groups, as well as how regional media organisations can tackle some of the challenges of the modern media environment – with a nod towards what can be done to make this media useful and present for the people that rely on it most. You can listen in on the conversation here.
