Audio Feature
Can quality journalism survive the online revolution?
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In May 2008 the Walkley Foundation held a conference in Sydney on the future of the news media.
As part of that conference they organised a panel discussion on the topic 'The Survival of Media Platforms for Journalism'. The panel members were Roy Greenslade a blogger and columnist for The Guardian in the UK; the Editorial Operations Director for News Limited, Campbell Reid; Max Uechtritz, the Editor-in-Chief of Nine MSN and Mark Scott, the Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Hear the unedited version of that discussion.
The Weekly World News
The Weekly World News is a Florida based supermarket tabloid which claimed it was 'The World's Only Reliable Newspaper'. The paper found Elvis Presley alive and living on a horse farm in Mississippi; it reported that space aliens had backed both the Clinton and Bush Jr presidential campaigns; and discovered world war two aircraft on the moon.
After 28 years of operation, the publishers of the Weekly World News recently announced that they would end the print version of the paper, but would maintain an online version. Back in 2004 the Media Report's (then presenter) Mick O'Regan looked at the bizarre world of the Weekly World News and its late, great editor, Eddie Clontz.
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Read a transcript of the 2004 program
