As media valuations crash, is history about to repeat itself, a decade on?

Welcome to Unmade, mostly written on Tuesday afternoon on a chilly day at Sisters Beach, Tasmania, and wrapped up on an even colder Wednesday morning after an early start for the Socceroos game. We got there in the end.

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The big chill

Next week marks the ten year anniversary of one of those “Where were you when you heard?” moments for anyone who worked in media at the time.

Actually, there were two such moments, two days apart.