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Original Articles

‘A few years ago I thought it was fairly dead in the water’: newspaper printing, new media and job insecurity in Australia

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Pages 134-149 | Received 30 Jun 2014, Accepted 22 Jun 2015, Published online: 29 Jun 2015

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