Past Programs
Media, Information and Communication - 2008
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The Foreign Correspondent
04/12/2008
The role and nature of the foreign correspondent is undergoing a significant change and even the BBC - arguably the world's largest provider of international news content - is rethinking its approach to sending journalists abroad.
Tears, tantrums—television!
27/11/2008
Inside the mind of a very successful reality TV producer. Drew Lesser is the Australian-born executive producer of the US hit Bridezillas.
Leading with the trailer
20/11/2008
What makes for a good cinematic trailer? Can a good trailer save a bad film or will it just leave the movie-going audience feeling cheated when they finally get to see the full length production?
Backed into the closet
13/11/2008
Those concerned about human rights and freedom of speech have condemned the passage of new 'anti-pornography' legislation in Indonesia.
Indigenous jobs, commercial media
13/11/2008
Indigenous voices and faces are a reality on ABC and SBS, but why are there still so few Indigenous Australians working in the mainstream commercial media? How much is the attitude of the Indigenous community to blame?
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?
Against the media tide
30/10/2008
Conventional wisdom would tell you it's the wrong time to launch a new magazine title, but the editor of the Australian version of The Week doesn't much care for conventional wisdom. He thinks he's on a winner. We'll find out why.
The New Blue Media
23/10/2008
With the US election looming, we look at what's been termed the 'New Blue Media', a coalition of sorts aimed at ensuring a Republican defeat and bringing internal reform to the Democratic Party.
'On the Record' with Sandra Levy
16/10/2008
Sandra Levy is the head of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. The AFTRS has just moved house and revamped its approach. We'll speak with her about future directions and opportunities.
Wall Street, start-ups and the media
09/10/2008
Has the economic day of reckoning come for online start-ups who prioritise growth above revenue? And how much responsibility should the US business media take for the global financial crisis? Did they lack the access and the ideological neutrality to provide a proper assessment of the system's fragility?
The rise and rise of file-sharing
02/10/2008
From Napster & Kazaa through to Bit Torrent - a look at the history and impact of file-sharing software. IT journalist Patrick Gray explains the history and the issues.
The process is the product
18/09/2008
Imagine being the producer of a film project with no discernible end point and no limit to the number of co-producers involved. Welcome to the world of crowd-sourced 'remixable' films.
'On the record' with Deborah Welch
11/09/2008
An 'On the record' interview with Deborah Welch, president of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. She talks about the sector's funding pitch to Canberra and its changing identity in the era of user-generated content.
The Blogging Revolution
04/09/2008
Journalist and author Antony Loewenstein has just released his new book, The Blogging Revolution, which examines the power of blogging in six different countries -- Iran, Cuba, China, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt.
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?
The Gruen Division?
07/08/2008
The audience loved it and it's apparently led to a flurry of interest in advertising as a career, but has the ABC's Gruen Transfer caused divisions within the industry?
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.
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.
From reporter to refugee
17/07/2008
Edison and Sonny are journalists. They fled the bloodshed of Sierra Leone to start a new life in Sydney. But the past is always with them—and explaining and documenting it is now the core of their work here in Australia.
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.
Reporting 'The Troubles'
10/07/2008
After a career spent reporting the joys and frustrations of Northern Ireland, BBC journalist Denis Murray has now called it a day, but not before speaking with the Media Report about his experiences.
Media work and media practice
03/07/2008
Three noted thinkers on the changing nature of media and its consumers. Our guests: MIT's Henry Jenkins, Mark Deuze from Leiden University in the Netherlands and Australia's John Hartley, Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation.
The BBC's Australian expansion
26/06/2008
The BBC has announced a new initiative with pay-TV operator Foxtel which will see it dramatically expand its presence in the Australian TV market. We speak with Darren Childs, Managing Director of BBC Worldwide Channels.
'On the record' with David Butorac
19/06/2008
'On the record' with David Butorac, the Managing Director of WIN. The corporation owns Australia's fourth largest commercial TV network and it has plans for expansion.
Networking for good
12/06/2008
In this section: Not-for-profit organisations and how they can use IT technology and social media techniques to expand their donor-base and energise and engage their supporters.
Extending the media leash
29/05/2008
Perth-based academic Wanning Sun on the Chinese media and the unexpected freedom it's been given in covering the Sichuan earthquake disaster.
Online collaboration
22/05/2008
New York University's Clay Shirky on the power and peril of online collaboration. He has a new book out called 'Here Comes Everybody'.
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.
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'.
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.
'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...
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.
Food and the media
10/04/2008
From gourmet blogs to Maeve O'Meara to Gordon %#?*! Ramsay. Join us as we explore the symbiotic relationship between food and the media.
Acting up a storm
03/04/2008
The giant US media industry is facing another crisis. Already damaged by economic downturn and the long-running writers' strike, now the industry's acting fraternity has declared war -- on itself!
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.
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.
Does digital radio have a future?
06/03/2008
Rolling out digital radio. Just why are Australian radio networks so keen on the introduction of digital radio when the main commercial operator in the UK has been busy scaling back?
Troubles in the West
28/02/2008
Western Australia's main newspaper and its government are at war -- we examine why.
The voice of Papua
07/02/2008
Journalist and former Media Report presenter Andrew Dodd takes us to Indonesian-controlled Papua. There's no shortage of media outlets on offer, but do ordinary Papuans have a voice?
The Bulletin and its legend
31/01/2008
Historian and author Sylvia Lawson helps us unpack the legend of The Bulletin. After 128 years the journal is no more. But what made it so special? And did its most recent incarnation really have any connection to the original publication and its founder's aims?
Covering the great US horse-race
31/01/2008
Washington-based journalist John Shovelan gives us the low-down on the way the US primaries are being covered and how the candidates themselves are faring.
Three perspectives on China and the media
24/01/2008
We hear from three academics who've been closely studying areas of the Chinese media. All three of our China watchers were speakers at a 2007 China/East Asia Media Conference organised by the Queensland University of Technology.
(This program was first broadcast on 12 July 2007)
The changing face of advertising
17/01/2008
A look at the way in which the Australian advertising industry is adapting to the challenges of the modern age of communication.
(This program was first broadcast on 11 October 2007)
A conversation with Jim Lehrer
10/01/2008
Today, we revisit one of our most popular programs of the past twelve months, a frank and revealing interview with one of the icons of American media, Jim Lehrer from the PBS News Hour.
(This program was first broadcast on 10 May 2007)
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)
