Two years ago it was estimated that 2,500 journalism jobs had disappeared in Australia since 2012. At current count, that number is conservatively estimated to be as high as 3,000.Lawrie Zion from the Department of Media and Communication at La Trobe University is involved in a five year study exploring the aftermath of journalism redundancies. This week he talks about some of the findings.

Shifty Shapelle and Cocaine Cassie: when a 'daughter who is Australia' ventures forth and gets in trouble in strange lands

This show casts a critical eye on the myriad ways in which we communicate with each other in our increasingly interconnected, multi-media platform world. Each week we mix down the who, the what, the where, and the how of particular communication events, messages, trends and technologies, and then consider: what impacts and what consequences?