Southern Cross Austereo, Ace Radio Broadcasters and Grant Broadcasters are among 41 regional companies to receive part of $1.8 million to support journalism cadetships in regional and remote areas.
This first funding round is part of the Federal Governments $60 million Regional and Small Publishers Cadetships Program aimed at setting up 200 cadetships over the next 2 years.
SCA says the grant will enable them to employ 2 cadet journalists with a specific focus on newsgathering in Regional Australia and the cadets will be exposed to grassroots journalism, with the added benefit of being part of a large and supportive SCA News Team.
Cadets will learn the basics including writing, interviewing, reading news, with a filter of uncovering news that truly matters to people who live and love living regionally.
Jobs will be advertised in the coming months.
The full list of companies receiving grants is:
- ACE Radio Broadcasters (The Weekly Advertiser)
- Adelphi Printing as Trustee for the Paton Family Trust
- Alexandra Newspapers
- Australian Leisure Media
- Balonne Beacon
- Budsoar (Koori Mail)
- Bumma Bippera Media Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation
- Business News Australia
- Chinchilla Newspapers
- Dalby Newspapers
- Elliott Consolidated Newspapers
- Golden Plains Publishing
- Grant Broadcasters
- Greysen Enterprises
- Locolee
- Mail News Group
- McPherson Newspapers
- Mildura Weekly
- Monaro Media Group
- Narrandera Argus
- NBN
- North East Media
- Papers & Publications
- Poet Press
- Private Media
- Roma Western Star News
- Solstice Media
- Southern Cross Austereo
- Stadtic Media (Twin Town Times)
- Star News Group
- Sunraysia Publishing Company
- Surf Coast News Australia
- The Express Newspaper
- The North Central Review
- The North Western Courier
- The Western Times
- Village News Publishing
- W&L Phillips (Flow FM & Flow Media)
- Western Sydney Publishing Group
- Wilkie Watson Publications
- Yarrawonga Chronicle and Corowa Free Press