Concerning professional training, Australia has seen no major change in the last decade and, as Josephi (2011) found in the previous report, is far from ideal. Some media companies offer training for mid-career journalists, for example, to equip print journalists for multitasking, such as how to add audio and video to their online reporting. Larger media organisations generally provide instruction in media law, narrative writing, hostile environment reporting, bushfire training, and trauma training. But these courses are more poorly resourced than they have ever been.
The MEAA also provides continuous training, in particular directed towards facilitating the transition to online journalism, or on journalism ethics, which the union sees as the core to journalistic professionalism. Interviews suggest that younger staff are not as committed to, or do not receive the training for, investigative journalism – as was the case some years ago.
