Guardian Australia’s deputy political editor Katharine Murphy looks back at the lessons of her 20 years in the Canberra press gallery“Then and now” is always a trap, and a fiendish one in these challenging days when Australian journalism is buffeted by profound structural change. Nostalgia dictates that things were always so much better in the olden days when we had certainty.
It’s all just – you can relax. I have no intention of boring you senseless with syrupy sentiment. I’m confident I missed journalism’s golden age – whether there was in fact a golden age. But I do want to start with a personal counterpoint because it helps me sift through how things have changed in the 20 years I’ve been hacking absent in the parliamentary press gallery in Canberra.
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Source: theguardian.com