Past Programs
Critique and Theory - 2008
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Life in the Clickstream
27/11/2008
It's been a rough year for Australian journalism across the board, in terms of both jobs and program and publication cuts. Many of those affected have been members of the MEAA, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
Yesterday the union held its third 'Future of Journalism' conference in Melbourne. And they released a new report called 'Life in the Clickstream', looking at some of the positives and negatives of our rapidly and seemingly endlessly changing media environment.
Chris Warren is the MEAA's Federal Secretary.
Social viewing and social change
20/11/2008
American film producer and online entrepreneur Chris Adams was a keynote speaker at this year's SPAA conference (SPAA being the Screen Producers Association of Australia). Mr Adams likes to make money, but he also likes to make films with the potential to initiate social change. He is also an online developer with a new 'social viewng' project underway.
Ethical labelling and the web
06/11/2008
You've heard of 'fair trade' coffee. Well what about 'fair trade' media. Is it possible to develop a labelling system that would give people confidence in the ethical values of the sites they view?
Local Voices
16/10/2008
A project called Local Voices has been operating for several years now in four developing countries: India, Nigeria, Kenya and Ethiopia. And the focus of the project is on training journalists to better cover issues relating to HIV and AIDS. Local Voices is run by the media development agency Internews and the organisation's Resident Journalism Advisor in Ethiopia is Sonya Di Masi.
Civility online
25/09/2008
Town square or playground of the keyboard warriors? Why does so much online interaction end up aggressive, polarised and anything but enlightening?
A taxonomy of blogs
25/09/2008
Author and media analyst Margaret Simons takes a stab at defining the different types of blogs that currently exist.
The Media and the Dame
18/09/2008
The second instalment in our irregular series dealing with historic figures in the Australian media industry. Today we're looking at the media and Dame Enid Lyons. Enid Lyons is best known for being the first Australian woman to become a federal MP -- back in the early 1940s -- and she was also the first woman to be given a position in Cabinet. She was a skilled media performer and practitioner having a secondary career, of sorts, as a broadcaster and columnist.
At the centre of journalism and media
11/09/2008
Professor Catherine Lumby is the Director of a a new media research centre at the University of New South Wales.
But Wait, There's More!
07/08/2008
Dr Robert Crawford is a Research Fellow with the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King's College London. And he's the author of a detailed history of the Australian advertising sector called, 'But Wait, There's More'.
Vale 'Sunday'
31/07/2008
This weekend sees the final edition of Channel Nine's Sunday program. When it premiered back in 1981 it was revolutionary. There'd never been anything like it on commercial television. We'll look back with its former Managing Editor, Tom Krause.
Reasons to be cheerful
26/06/2008
The uncertainty caused by the rapid growth of online activity seems to have convinced many journalists that the profession isn't just in a state of realignment, it's actually going to hell in a hand-basket. But according to Paul Bradshaw, a senior lecturer in Media at Birmingham City University in the UK, there are many aspects of new media practice that should make today's journos optimistic about the future. He recently published a list of ten reasons why journalists in 2008 should be cheerful.
Perceptions, preconceptions and visibility - part two
15/05/2008
Dr Gail Phillips and Julie Posetti talk about the Reporting Diversity Project and their research into the representation of minorities in the Australian media.
Perceptions, preconceptions and visibility - part one
15/05/2008
Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah is our first guest as we examine visibility in the media and the preconceptions and stereotyping that tag some people as less than desirable and see others ignored altogether.
Media bits and pieces
01/05/2008
Including two new reports about the workings of the ABC; and the death of BBC broadcaster Humphrey Lyttleton.
The (non)Communication Minister
17/04/2008
Some in the Australian media are wondering why the communications minister, Stephen Conroy, appears so short on detail and reticent to do interviews.
Recently, The Australian's Mark Day accused the minister of a con job over the release of a digital TV conversion package that looks remarkably like the previous government's effort, except with a new set of clothes.
The minister declined our invitation for an interview (repeatedly). In his place here's Mark Day and Crikey's media writer, Margaret Simons.
In brief: Australian media
17/04/2008
A look at some interesting developments in the Australian media industry over the past week.
On the US campaign trail
17/04/2008
Two US journalists on the campaign trail give us their take on the Obama-Clinton stoush and claims of media favouritism. NOTE: due to copyright reasons the clip of Jon Stewart's Daily Show does not appear in the podcast version of this program.
The Centre for Media History
03/04/2008
Sydney's Macquarie University recently opened what they describe as 'Australia's first centre dedicated to conducting and fostering research on the interactions between media and history.'
It's called, aptly enough, The Centre for Media History, and its director is Associate Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley.
The State of the Media 2008
20/03/2008
The Project for Excellence in Journalism's 2008 'State of the News Media' report.
