Media’s season in court: How The Teacher’s Pet changed Australia’s podcast landscape

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It’s the last day of winter today. And there’s never been a season like it for high profile legal cases – criminal and civil – involving the media.

For any publishing company that aspires to do investigative journalism or write about contested topics, legal representation is becoming a cost of doing business, in both defending reporting and as bystanders in criminal proceedings.