Independent journalism like Crikey is more important than ever

cricket The origin story is messy and messy. So does the dire situation of journalism and the media institutions that strive to support it, 26 years later.

When Stephen Mayne launched his distinctive daily email newsletter from a spare room downstairs in early 2000, it was seen by most of Australia’s all-knowing media illuminati as a crazy-brave venture that would never last. Publish everything in email? Madness. Want to transcend traditional forms of journalism? Sacrilege. Allow only paying subscribers to read content? Nonsense.