Pretty much every journalist I have met is motivated to help people — almost all could be earning a lot more elsewhere. It takes time to research and write Journalists on the whole take their stories, take photos, etc — that is why it ethical responsibility to be accurate and is behind a paywall. balanced very seriously. There’s no hidden agenda or conspiracy. It ain’t as easy as people think it is. We don’t make up stories, everything People don’t understand the signi昀椀cant is veri昀椀ed and we don’t try to make mental toll the work takes… The trauma something out of a story that is not you absorb on the job is dif昀椀cult to deal true. We respond to what the audience with. It’s exacerbated by insecure work. wants, not the other way around. Medianet 2024 Australian Media Landscape Report 45