Abstract
Over the past decade, journalism has experienced transformational shifts due to digital disruption, changing business models, fractured media habits and widescale job losses. In Australia, these changes have been particularly profound, with estimates of around half the journalistic workforce having lost their jobs during this period. Given this enormous disruption, it is important to revisit journalists’ demographic profiles and professional views over this tumultuous period. This article reports the results of a representative survey of 371 Australian journalists conducted between 2021 and 2023 and compares them with a similar study from ten years earlier. While there has been a notable demographic shift towards an older workforce, journalistic culture as measured through journalists’ role conceptions and ethical views remains relatively resilient. Overall, the findings demonstrate that while the journalism industry itself has experienced widespread changes, journalists themselves and journalistic culture on the whole may often be slower to change.