Regional and Small Publishers Cadetships Program

Overview

The Regional and Small Publishers Cadetships Program (the Program) will run over two years from 2018?19 to 2019-20. The Program was announced as part of the Regional and Small Publishers Jobs and Innovation Package. This grant opportunity is open to small metropolitan and regional publishers, who are able to apply for grant funding to assist with the costs of hiring journalism cadets to work in their organisation in journalism related roles. In total, funding for up to 200 cadetships will be made available to small metropolitan and regional publishers over a two-year period. The Program targets regional and small metropolitan publishers as these groups have less size and scale to enable them to respond to market and technological developments, particularly the growth of Internet based media, which continues to impact both markets and advertising revenue across traditional media sectors. Conversely, larger metropolitan publishers are not targeted by the Program due to their generally greater capacity to adapt to these conditions, including access to greater skilled labour and capital than in regional areas of Australia. Without intervention, there is a heightened risk that publishers will no longer be able to support quality public interest journalism in regional Australia, to the detriment of these communities.