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Project Oasis @projectoasis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

📩 In the latest edition of Sustainable Connections, we go to South Australia to talk with the founder of Murray Bridge News: award-winning and community-minded journalist @peristrathearn.bsky.social Here are five lessons media leaders can apply to their own organizations 👇

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Marty Baron's Post thrived because it took meaningful steps away from false balance, toward a defensible north star. As long as media execs insist financial pressures require wooing back right-wing audiences, why help them build a false sense that this is possible? www.offmessage.net/p/a-requiem-...

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

News MAP money is coming! Actual grant funding by the federal government, 3.5 years after it was first promised by a Labor opposition two elections ago. Applications to the $67.6 million Journalism Assistance Fund will open in mid-November. #NewsMAP

grants.gov.au

Forecast Opportunity View - FO112025-JAF: GrantConnect

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I'm so excited about this. The @lina.org.au summit is my favourite few days of the year. Getting to host it in Murray Bridge in 2026 is gonna be a career highlight. Can't wait to welcome you all to the Murraylands.

murraybridge.news

National news summit will be held in Murray Bridge

Murray Bridge News will co-host a national conference of the Local and Independent News Association in March 2026.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

It has been 20+ years since I did my undergrad degree, but I agree with Chrisanthi here: the experience wouldn't have been so formative without in-person, shoulder-to-shoulder learning, including in lecture theatres. (I'm curious about the idea of viva voce too, but that's another story.)

indailysa.com.au

Opinion: Fears lecture model broken at SA's merged uni - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

Dr Chrisanthi Giotis calls for Adelaide University to protect in-person lectures, describing any loss as a tragedy for SA students.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

For news publishers, there's a lot to take out of this recent report by Kristy Hess, Angela Ross et al, looking at public broadcasters' partnerships with other media around the world...

Working Together | Examining public service media collaboration in local news ecologies: A global perspective

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I'm not a subscriber, but even the free section of this piece by Doug Shapiro is insightful. This is the big-picture thinking we need to survive in media.

open.substack.com

What If All Media is Marketing?

The Logical Conclusion of Plummeting Creation Costs

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

"Only if the ACMA now imposes a new condition that breaching the decency standard for a tenth (11th; 12th?) time could affect the licence, might we see an actual commercial consequence." This s*** gives everyone in media a bad name. ACMA, or someone, needs to bring it to heel.

unmade.media

The Kyle & Jackie O Show receives a gumming from ACMA's toothless tiger

Today: The ACMA is slow and powerless, as The Kyle & Jackie O Show demonstrates once again. And further down, SCA’s share price goes negative as the market digests the SWM merger plan.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Chalk another win up for public pressure + local media: a major Murraylands employer has agreed to tighter licence conditions after neighbours complained about the smell.

murraybridge.news

Thomas Foods agrees to improve after locals raise a stink

Pressure from neighbours and the EPA has prompted one of the Murraylands’ biggest businesses to lift its game.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

To my colleagues in Canberra: please be better than this! I know you have professional FOMO. I know it's your responsibility to ensure your readers get access to every story. But not on ridiculous terms dictated by the government or opposition, surely.

abc.net.au

Ep 31 - No journalism today - Media Watch

Reporters urged to embrace the beauty of a one-sided story.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

"Genuinely open democracies start with the assumption that all info should be freely shared unless there is a strong public interest reason why not. Australian institutions often start with an assumption that you shouldn’t share info unless you have to." I hate how right Tim Burrowes is on this.

open.substack.com

BotW: Northbound

Today: Crushed nuts and taking the free out of freedom of information.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Now the movers and shakers are talking about tax offsets for journalists' salaries instead of a digital platforms levy, or a bargaining code, reports @timburrowes.bsky.social. More than three years have passed since Labor (in opposition!) promised certainty to the media sector. We're still waiting!

unmade.media

Suddenly, offsets are the next thing on the news industry's lobbying agenda

Going to Canberra yesterday reminded me of a trip to Dallas to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band a few years back.Visiting Dealey Plaza, the scene of JFK’s assassination, created a distinct ...

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

File this under friggin' cool. I recently wrote a story about an analogue photographer who had produced a book about car culture. During our interview, he shot a pic of me on his old twin-lens Mamiya C330. He just sent me the developed image. Thank you Ethan Klemm!

A black and white photo of Peri Strathearn taken on a vintage twin-lens camera by Ethan Klemm.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

"Audiences want local news that is related to their everyday lived experiences, initiatives and achievements in their local community, and stories that highlight community resilience." Encouraging bit of research by @skpark.bsky.social and her colleagues.

360info.org

The missing ingredients holding local news back - 360

From dwindling newspaper pages to news fatigue, regional communities feel a growing gap between their lives and their local coverage. Audiences are now asking for stories that reflect positivity, crea...

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Finding out what's happening in the world shouldn't be depressing, should it? That's why, at Murray Bridge News, we've introduced a Good News section, with all the celebrations, award wins and sporting victories you could want – not a crime or disaster in sight.

murraybridge.news

🙂 Good News - Murray Bridge News

Sick of all the negativity? We aim to tell positive stories about the Murraylands – here's a selection.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 26/08/2025

Individual organizations can survive in a destroyed ecosystem, but for publishers to thrive, they need to figure out how to both address the rise of AI, which feels inevitable, and connect directly with audiences who are hungry for information.

niemanlab.org

The next internet for news? Publishers gather to discuss protocols over platforms

Journalists and tech industry workers gathered at Protocols for Publishers to talk about building an internet that works for news.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

When Georgina Sutton started flying, there were no female pilots for her to look up to. Things are different now, as the first women to serve as chief pilot of an Australian airline looks back on her career.

murraybridge.news

Pioneering female pilot retires to Sunnyside

Georgina Sutton has had a career like no-one else in Australian aviation, and now has the freedom to reflect on it after 40 years.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Ethan Klemm's grandfather likes working on old cars – he has a 1947 Chevy Fleetmaster. Ethan likes analogue photography – he sometimes shoots on a Mamiya C330. Both hobbies require dedication and purpose. Now Ethan has found a way to combine them.

murraybridge.news

Ethan Klemm documents chrome culture, one analogue photo at a time

Meet the Murraylands photographer who has made it his mission to snap South Australia’s classic cars and the people who love them.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It was wonderful on Friday to be at the opening of the Moorundi Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service's swish new clinic. The dream of a health centre for the Ngarrindjeri nation has taken 23 years to realise, and I'd been following it for more than half of that time.

murraybridge.news

Moorundi health centre’s opening fulfils a 23-year-old dream

The Moorundi Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service has moved into a multi-million dollar clinic in Murray Bridge.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I also wrote this week about the death of Dawn Matthews, one of the most caring community leaders you could ever meet. It felt like she was everybody's aunty, I wrote in 2022, when she launched an unsuccessful mayoral campaign. She'll be missed.

murraybridge.news

Murraylands community mourns Dawn Matthews, Maori leader

The church leader, rugby club matriarch and op shop operator will be farewelled in Murray Bridge this Saturday.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

It has been one of the most depressing news weeks I can remember here in SA's Murraylands. The lowlight has been this unimaginably awful story about two 21-year-old women who were in a car accident on Tuesday. One died at the scene, the other survived the trauma but now faces criminal charges.

murraybridge.news

Driver charged over fatal crash at Mobilong

It has been a terrible week on the Murraylands’ roads, with a young woman killed and six people injured in three separate crashes.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Confession: Before I studied journalism I was sure I'd be a fiction writer. I was ~140,000 words into an original space opera. I even had Fiona McIntosh encourage me to press ahead (not that she actually read any of it). One day maybe.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

“If we continue to see media policy through the frame of entrenching incumbency, we really risk having a future landscape of just a few commercial players employing fewer and fewer journalists. I think that’s the wrong answer.” Man, first Hywood, now I'm agreeing with Chris Janz.

mumbrella.com.au

News code money went to shareholders or debt: Former Nine boss

The majority of money from the News Media Bargaining Code went to the shareholders of Australia’s biggest media companies or was used to pay off their debts, according to the former publisher of Nine,...

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"I don’t see how it would be possible for most people to have a shared grasp of reality..." Kick off your Friday morning with some unsettling observations from Brian Morrissey!

therebooting.com

Parallel worlds

Filter bubbles were just the start

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Here's a good column from Anna Pujol-Mazzini which tries to articulate what's wrong with the news industry. "The hours spent staring in despair at my phone were hours I wasn’t spending building communities, movements and projects with people."

goodstory.kit.com

I’ve been a journalist for ten years. So why can’t I read the news anymore?

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

A question I've faced: when new subs start to plateau, how can you wring more value out of the supporters you have? “We’ve already got that audience ... What do we offer them that’s actually worth more?” –Adi Ignatius www.therebooting.com/hbrs-adi-ign...

therebooting.com

HBR's Adi Ignatius on pricier subs

HBR Executive is $700 per year

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"...Murray Bridge, Mr Murray told Murray Bridge News..." There's such a thing as using a word too many times in a sentence, isn't there

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

How did @publicinterestnews.org.uk secure an equivalent of Australia's News Media Bargaining Code for the UK? Short answer: years of policy work and advocacy. And that's just to get to the starting line for designation, which could lead to actual funds flowing to publishers...

publicinterestnews.org.uk

How to win a local news campaign

Breaking down the timeline of PINF's successful News for All campaign. This page is best viewed on desktop!In July 2022, PINF’s News for All campaign was launched to ensure that independent news provi...

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

A last-minute lifeline thrown by the federal government to the Local & Independent News Association (LINA) has kept the doors from shutting on one of Australia’s most active supporters of small news publishers. piji.com.au/blog/lina-fu... Via Public Interest Journalism Initiative

piji.com.au

LINA back from the brink after News MAP delays

A last-minute lifeline thrown by the government kept the doors from shutting on one of Australia’s most active supporters of small news publishers.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

After spending much of this week at the River Reflections conference in Murray Bridge this week, I've got a glut of water-related stories coming through...

Here's me eating a focaccia by the Goolwa barrage.

Conference delegates gaze out at the Murray Mouth.

Clem Mason narrates for conference delegates as a bus passes through Jervois.

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Peri Strathearn @peristrathearn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Ladies and gentleman, we have a contest. Former independent candidate Airlie Keen, who came within a few hundred votes of making things interesting in 2022, confirms she'll have another go at winning Hammond from the Liberals at the 2026 SA election.

murraybridge.news

Independent Airlie Keen confirms second election tilt in Hammond

Exclusive: Murray Bridge’s Deputy Mayor will contest the 2026 state election as an independent candidate.

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