Past Programs
Media - Print - 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.
APN: To sell or not to sell
06/11/2008
Irish press baron Tony O'Reilly is putting up for sale its 39 per cent share in APN News and Media. Now APN of course owns a lot of radio stations and a very large chunk of Australia's regional press. O'Reilly's decision to sell his APN stake is being talked about in financial circles as the likely beginning of a significant realignment in the ownership of Australian media. Our regular commentator on matters financial is Glenn Dyer.
Right of reply: David Kirk
04/09/2008
The CEO of Fairfax Media, David Kirk, talks about the upheaval at his Australian newspapers following the decision to restructure operations and cut 550 jobs, including a large number of editorial positions at the company's once mighty flagships, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
The axe falls at Fairfax
28/08/2008
Five hundred and fifty staff at Fairfax are to go in a major restructure. Management said they were largely immune from the global newspaper downturn, but has the reality of falling circulation and advertising income finally caught up? And what power do the organisations staff have to fight the cuts?
Tabloid Man
14/08/2008
Sandra Hall talks with us about her new book Tabloid Man: The Life and Times of Ezra Norton.
Norton was a Titan of the Tabloids back in the first half of the twentieth century. He built up the Truth stable of papers in the 1920s and 30s and established the now defunct Daily Mirro in Sydney in the 1940s.
Leonard's last post
24/07/2008
Leonard Downie Jr is the executive editor of one of the world's most respected news organisations The Washington Post. During his tenure the Post has won 25 Pulitzer prizes. On the eve of his retirement he talks about the paper's successes and failures.
Printcasting
10/07/2008
An interesting new US project called 'printcasting' seeks to apply the web 2.0 approach to traditional print media.
Pro Publica
10/07/2008
Pro Publica is a non-profit newsroom which aims to fund investigative journalism in the public interest and to make stories available, free of charge, to major news outlets.
Tokyo Vice
05/06/2008
Jake Adelstein spent more than a decade covering crime for a major Japanese newspaper. Now a Yakuza boss wants him out of the way. So why is he writing a book about his experiences?
Survival of media platforms for journalism
08/05/2008
Some of the heavyweights of the Australian media: Campbell Reid, Mark Scott and Max Uechtritz come together with The Guardian's uber-blogger, Roy Greenslade, for a special panel discussion: 'The Survival of Media Platforms for Journalism'.
'On the Record' with Deborah Thomas
01/05/2008
The third in our 2008 series of 'On the Record' interviews with key figures in the Australian media industry. This time around, Deborah Thomas, the Editor-in-Chief of The Australian Woman's Weekly.
The battle for WAN
24/04/2008
The owner of the Seven Network, Kerry Stokes, has failed in his bid for a seat on the board of West Australian Newspapers—at least for the time being. Finance journalist Stephen Mayne gives us his interpretation of what went wrong for Mr Stokes and what it all means for WAN...
In brief: Australian media
17/04/2008
A look at some interesting developments in the Australian media industry over the past week.
Redefining the journalist as a news marketer
27/03/2008
SEO, Search Engine Optimisation, and what it means for the media. It's already quietly changing the way news is presented online and it's redefining the journalist as a marketer.
The State of the Media 2008
20/03/2008
The Project for Excellence in Journalism's 2008 'State of the News Media' report.
Mad crocs and Englishmen
20/03/2008
The British media and its hunger for weird aussie animal stories. We're joined by three UK correspondents Downunder.
Troubles in the West
28/02/2008
Western Australia's main newspaper and its government are at war -- we examine why.
Journalists and their information
21/02/2008
A closer look at journalists and the information they gather... where they get it... who tries to stop them getting it... and how some can be shaped by what they see and experience. First up an interview with the Guardian's Nick Davies, who has a new book called 'Flat Earth News'.
The Melbourne Museum of Printing
14/02/2008
Take a journey to the Melbourne Museum of Printing and meet its curator Michael Isaachsen - a man with one hell of a collection and one almighty storage problem.
Reporting Indigenous issues
03/01/2008
We hear from two journalists who've spent a career covering Indigenous issues. Tony Koch is an award-winning senior reporter for The Australian and Kirstie Parker is the editor of the Koori Mail, arguably Australia's only truly national Indigenous newspaper.
(The interviews in this program were first broadcast on 5 April and 2 August 2007)
