It's a brutal end for Fairfax – but media is changing, and we can change it for the good | Lenore Taylor

If Australians think a plurality of voices is important in a democracy, they can make it reality

Five years ago my colleague Katharine Murphy and I took a leap into the unknown, leaving comfortable jobs with a news company we loved, Fairfax Media, to help start Guardian Australia.

I clearly remember my conversation at the time with an incredulous chief executive, Greg Hywood, who could not fathom what I was doing. The Guardian, he said, might be a brand in some suburbs in London, but the only news brands that would ever have clout in Australia were Fairfax and News Corp.

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