As the editorship changes at the national broadsheet,one former employee looks at the impact of groupthink on the profession of journalismIn a tribute to retiring editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell published in the Australian recently, veteran media columnist Errol Simper captured one side of the dilemma that is the Australian.
In “Young Chris Mitchell, and you were simply Devine”,Simper says what a fine editor Mitchell was and how he watched him develop into “gunslinger with “nimble instincts”. “He knew news. He was a conjurer.
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Source: theguardian.com