BOTW: On The Beach, in the lift, at one minute to midnight for media

Welcome to Best of the Week, mostly written on board JQ749 home to Tasmania after three days in Sydney that began at the IAB Audio Summit and ended riding a freight elevator to the 21st floor of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices for a last minute ministerial press conference on Meta’s portentous decision to pull out of the news ecosystem. Yes, in the perfect metaphor, the politicians have the journalists arrive via the tradesman’s entrance.

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