News and events
News | Events
Lobbying for Coal Seam Gas Drilling
Coal seam gas companies have enlisted some of Australia's leading conservative lobbyists to put pressure on NSW politicians. Unravelling the complexity of the relationships has been UTS student, Calliste Weitenberg, in collaboration with the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism' Global Environmental Journalism Initiative.
A sceptical climate – media coverage of climate change in Australia
ACIJ launches major report.
International links
The ACIJ regularly hosts public forums by visiting international journalists.
ACIJ newsletters
The Centre's monthly newsletter.
ACIJ is a supporting organisation of NewsStand
NewsStand is a new community organisation which is supporting high standards of journalism and a more diverse media marketplace. Former ACIJ Director, Wendy Bacon is a board member of NewsStand.
Death in custody series in Crikey - ACIJ Associate & freelancer Inga Ting
A special investigation by ACIJ Associate Inga Ting examines the NSW prison system's appalling record of deaths in custody. Twenty years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody delivered its final report, deaths in custody have risen and inmates are still dying as a result of the same lethal practices the Commission sought to eliminate.
Journalist reveals desperate bid to save detainee's life
Ahmed Al Akabi hung himself in Villawood Detention Centre on 15th November last year, depressed and sleepless after his two applications for asylum were rejected.
Pure water, organic water, plastic water? What it means and what it costs us.
Results of the investigative work carried out by hundreds of students across Australia, Europe and Hong Kong into bottled water is now available.
'Africa to Australia' wins FWA award and an AIMIA award
A web documentary, made by ACIJ Honorary Associate, John Connell with Paola Morabito and others, has won both a FWA award and the best cultural award at the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) awards.
ACIJ and Crikey: Investigating Aid
Don't miss the ACIJ/Crikey special series on: Who Benefits from our Foreign Aid?
Special investigation: Spinning the Media
Follow the reports as ACIJ explores the relationship between PR and journalism.
Supporting Wikileaks
he ACIJ is supporting Wikileaks through the GetUp campaign and signed the letter to Australian PM Julia Gillard initiated by Overland magazine. We've also invited Julian Assange to be an Honorary Member of the ACIJ.
Global Climate: Local Journalisms has now been published
This nineteen country study, edited by Elisabeth Eide (University of Bergen, Norway) and Risto Kunelius (University of Tampere, Finland) examines how two newspapers in each of the 19 countries covered the 2009 Cop 15 conference and finds that an overall pattern emerged in which national domestic perspectives dominated with a heavy reliance on male voices from the Global North.
Independent journalist, Cathy Carey
The ACIJ is saddened to learn of the death this year of award winning Australian journalist and researcher Cathy Carey.
