Katharine Murphy, political editor for Guardian Australia, is well known as one of Australia's leading political commentators, and especially well known among the 135,000 who follow @murpharoo on Twitter. She is probably less well known as a media commentator, but she is equally acute in this field. On disruption is her account of what it has been like for a journalist to experience the transition from the print to the digital age. Before I say anything else, you should know that Murphy and I were colleagues at The Age in the mid-2000s, and became friends after I took a job at the University of Canberra in 2009. I nominated her for an adjunct professorial role at the university and did the same when I returned to Melbourne, and Deakin University, last year. So, if I say On disruption is a good book, you know where I am coming from. And I do think it is a good book; one in fact that journalism students would be well advised to seek out.
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