Media
Google and the Media: Friend or Foe?
Google's General Manager Karim Temsamani assured a sceptical audience that Google is not a threat to the Australian media industry, at the Future of Journalism summit on 1-2 May. Vicky Stojanovska reports from the summit.
5 May 2008
'Time' to Embrace the Online Era
Time International's editor Michael Elliott delivered the keynote speech at the Future of Journalism summit on 1-2 May. He dismissed theories that going online will make print media obsolete. As Dheepthi Namasivayam reports, Mr Elliott believes Time's recent relaunch into cyberspace, has been a wild success.
5 May 2008
The Rise of Citizen Journalism
Citizen Journalism is starting to seep through all forms of media reporting whereby members of the public are called upon as key researchers in reporting stories. Vicky Stojanovska reports from the Future of Journalism summit on 1-2 May where a panel of journalists discussed this ever-growing phenomenon.
5 May 2008
Remembering the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
With Greenpeace protest ship Esperanza currently pursuing the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, Pacific Media Centre Director, Dr David Robie spoke at the 2007 Public Right to Know conference about the 1985 bombing of the Rainbow Warrior and the landmark legal victory that has made footage of the trials of the French secret agents responsible public for the first time. Julie Shingleton reports.
1 November 2007
John Howard, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Public’s Right to Know
Five years after the beginning of the war and continuing occupation of Iraq, former senior public servant Richard Mills spoke about the media spin used by the Howard government to silence the criticism of the decision to become part of the Coalition of the Willing. Julie Shingleton was there and has this story.
1 November 2007
Is online media dumbing down journalism?
Julie Shingleton reports on whether the emergence of online media, such as blogs, online publications and YouTube has dumbed down journalism.
1 October 2007
