The next Media In The Pub night has been postponed until the new year. People seemed to like a Tuesday night, so we’ll hang on to that. If you made it to the first one and had a good time tell your colleagues and your mates.

There are a few topic ideas floating around for next event, but if you’ve got a great idea leave it in the comments below.

-Ferg

The first Media In The Pub night, on August 26th, will take a look at Australian media jobs in ten years time. What are they going to look like? How do contracting and new skills interact? What does the fragmentation of media sources mean for finding people to pay for your time?

Update: Thanks to everyone who came along and contributed. From what people have said told me so far the night seemed to be a great start. Keep your eye on this site or the facebook group for details of the next event.

Photos from the event are on facebook, which you’ll need to be signed into to see.

I’ll keep on collecting links on this subject. If you want to stay up to date on them you can check delicious, or add this RSS feed to your feed reader: http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/ferguspitt/mediainthepub+jobs.

Original Text: BBC World Service boss Richard Sambrook reckons that by 2015 we’ll all study psychology, programming, business, media production, marketing, then sub-contract for bosses we never meet, work in bursts then lay on the beach between gigs. You can get his view first hand on his blog.

Meanwhile Fairfax freelancers are feeling distinctly uncomfortable about the new contracts they’ve had to sign. But there’s an optimistic side; at the same time in Sydney an ecosystem of independent media companies - often just one or two people - is starting to bubble. Who knows how long they’ll last, or how big they’ll grow?

Will that ecosystem be any good? For the people who work in it or for the people who use its products? That the structure of media is changing is an accepted truth (especially if most of your industry reading is from overseas) but is that even true of our local Sydney industry? If so will that actually have an impact on Australian careers?

Come along on the night, and have your say.

At time of writing the facebook group alone has 30 58 62 74 attendees, including people from across the Sydney mainstream and independent media ecosystem.