Crikey to go on journalist hiring spree thanks to funding infusion from Fairfax and O’Reilly
Private Media is creating a new team of journalists backed by shareholders John B Fairfax and Cameron O’Reilly, as part of a major investment in ‘inquiry journalism’.
The new team, which will include approximately a dozen reporters and an editor, will sit within Private Media’s subscription digital newsletter and website, Crikey.
The new team will sit within Crikey
Looks like Crikey might become a bolthole for Nine (cough, cough!) journos who want to work for Fairfax again. We might start referring to it as the real Fairfax group.
Good on them. Maybe change crikey masthead typeface to some sort of Gothic scrip. Maybe even change the name to suit with these august investors.
Great news! Let’s see more of the story behind a story. Have seen examples of lazy media missing great story opportunities in Melbourne recently.