Every question was being answered the wrong way’ – Erik Jensen on ten years of the Saturday Paper

Welcome to an audio-led edition of Unmade. Today’s edition features The Saturday Paper’s editor-in-chief Erik Jensen, the only person in Australia at the helm of a national newspaper they founded.
Also in today’s post, the Unmade Index rally continues for a strong second day.
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A newsroom unlike any other: How Erik Jensen created a unique news culture at The Saturday Paper

Back in 2014, the then communications minister Malcolm Turnbull cracked a joke at the launch of The Saturday Paper. He told proprietor Morry Schwartz: “You are not some demented plutocrat pouring more and more money into a loss making venture that is just going to peddle your opinions.”