Fairfax Media will recruit 20 cadet journalists to join newsrooms nationally as part of a 12-month paid program.
It marks the largest intake of trainees into Fairfax Media since 2014.

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Brilliant news!
Chessell hires. Aston the role model?
Lose highly paid, experienced journos at the top of end and replace with low paid juniors at the bottom. Good cost cutting move. But seriously, who in their right mind would sign up to journalism as a careeer these days?
Great idea for cheap labour while they get rid of all the experienced teams
Cheap labour…great idea with so many restructures and redundancies!