Junkee co-founder slams Australian publishing for lack of ambition
Tim Duggan's ambitious challenge to the Mumbrella Publish audience
Digital Publishers Alliance chair and co-founder of Junkee Tim Duggan has called for more ambition from Australian publishers in a rallying cry address at Mumbrella’s Publish conference.
Duggan also used the session to announce a DPA associate membership tier for smaller players as part of a program to “build up the next generation coming through”.
In outlining the challenge facing the publishing industry, Duggan initially ran through three major problems: AI generation and summary; declining audience trust; and government inertia.
Rather than dwelling on these big but external factors, Duggan framed them as less important than the fundamental issues of self-belief, optimism, and energy: in short, ambition.
The old ‘join a panel for us so we can write a scathing headline against you’ trick…
I’m certain Tim would never slam publishers as suggested.