Journoz: Updates for Australian Journalists

Time's nearly up

June 30 is the deadline for abstracts for this year's Public Right To Know conference to be held at the University of Technology, Sydney over the weekend of 20-22 August 2004. If you're keen on presenting at this conference, please let the conference organisers know asap.

The theme for the opening night plenary session is: The right to security vs the public right to know.

The conference welcomes a broad range of participants and papers from all relevant disciplines and professional fields. This year there's two special themes:

1. What, if any, provision should an Australian republican constitution make for the media. In particular, should provision for independent public sector media be entrenched in a republican constitution, and should the ownership and operation of private sector media be regulated in any way?

2. Project Censored. What are the stories of social significance that are overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by our news media?

The PR2K conferences combine academic and non-academic presentations. They examine the importance of free communication within and between journalism, media, the arts, government, the academy, interested organisations and the community. We strongly encourage proposals for presentations of case studies that illustrate some of the principles and complexities that occur in practice.

A selection of the academic conference papers will be peer-reviewed and published following the Conference.

2004 Conference: Key dates

* Call for Papers - issued on 6 May
* Academic Abstracts - due 30 June
* Proposals for Non Academic Presentations - due 30 June
* Acceptance of Papers - notified by 16 July
* Conference Registration - commences 28 July
* Conference Opening Night - 20 August
* Conference - 2 full days - 21 & 22 August 2003

More information on the conference is available at the PR2K website: http://acij.uts.edu.au/pr2k/index.html Posted by belinda at June 23, 2004 03:55 PM

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