The economic shock of COVID-19 has rapidly worsened the already ailing revenue streams for journalism. Among the thousands of media jobs lost in 2019 and 2020, the loss of journalists with expertise in writing about men’s violence against women passed almost unnoticed. This loss, however, is significant and troubling.
The Saturday Paper recently published a piece by Jane Caro and Polly Dunning on the decline in women’s media. “The Hoopla, Australia’s bureau of HuffPost, WHIMN, ABC Life, 10 Daily, BuzzFeed Australia and many others have been lost entirely, while much of the mainstream print media has similarly dropped their women-centred sections”, they wrote. Daily Life at Nine once published some of the strongest and most diverse feminist writers in Australia. It’s now a “lifestyle” section concentrating on fashion, beauty and family-friendly stories.
