Breaking News: The Rise of Independent Media

Authors

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  Amy Remeikis

  Amy Remeikis is a journalist, author, commentator and Australia’s best known political blogger. She is the chief political analyst at the Australia Institute and contributing editor for The New Daily.
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  Antoun Issa

  Antoun Issa is a Lebanese-Australian journalist and co-founder of Deepcut News.
  
  After completing his Master of International Relations at the Australian National University, he moved to Lebanon in 2011 where he worked as news editor for Al-Monitor during the heights of the Arab Spring.
  Issa relocated to Washington in 2015 where he spent two years at the Middle East Institute, a US thinktank, before joining The Atlantic as an editorial strategist.
  
  
  
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  Antoinette Lattouf

  Antoinette Lattouf is an award winning journalist, presenter, author and human rights advocate whose surname has now become a verb - Lattoufed: to be sacked or silenced and standing your ground. Her landmark win, Lattouf v ABC, became a flashpoint in debates about free speech, employee rights, institutional cowardice, and what happens when a journalist speaks truth to (media) power.
  
  She’s the co-founder of independent media company Ette Media, a TEDx speaker, and a regular fixture on lists like the AFR’s 100 Women of Influence and Marie Claire's Women of The Year. Her first book, How to Lose Friends and Influence White People, somehow won her friends. Her second - Women Who Win - an exploration of women who saw the rulebook, chuckled and used it as a coaster (out April 2026).
  
  Antoinette’s work spans commercial and public broadcasting, boardrooms, courtrooms, and the occasional Murdoch media pile-on. And no, she’s not done yet.
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  Osman Faruqi

  Osman Faruqi is a journalist and editor. He is the co-host and founder of independent media company Lamestream Media.

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