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September 07, 2005
Robert Fisk to speak at Edward Said Memorial Lecture
In commemoration of the work of
Edward Said, Adelaide University is holding an
Edward Said Memorial Lecture in
Adelaide on
1 October 2005. Well-known journalist and Middle East specialist
Robert Fisk will deliver the inaugural lecture.
Get the invitation to the lecture here.
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August 31, 2005
Public Right To Know Conference - Call for Papers
The issue of freedom of information will be explored at the
2005 Public Right To Know Conference at the University of Technology, Sydney on Friday,
4 - 6 November 2005. The conference is convened by the
Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ).
The conference brings together academic, journalists, media observers and students and will consist of both academic and non-academic presentations, lively debate and discussion.
Proposals for presentations about the issue of freedom of information are invited; particularly case studies that illustrate some of the principles and complexities that occur in practice.
Please send a 200-300 word abstract and your contact details, via email, to acij@uts.edu.au before 1 October 2005.
Should you have any questions about the conference prior to this date, please feel free to email Jan McClelland at jan.mcclelland@uts.edu.au (Ph: 02 9514 2295) or Chris Nash at c.nash@uts.edu.au (Ph: 02 9514 2312).
For further details visit the website of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at http://www.acij.uts.edu.au/.
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September 10, 2004
George Munster Forum
What: 2004 George Munster Journalism Award & Forum
When: 6.30pm on Friday September 17, 2004
Where: Guthrie Theatre, 702-730 Harris St, Ultimo, Sydney
Welcome drinks will be followed by award presentation and panel discussion.
Admission is free.
Academics, students and journalists are invited to join the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (http://acij.uts.edu.au/) on Friday September 17 for the annual George Munster journalism award and forum.
The prestigious George Munster award celebrates excellence in independent journalism. It carries a prize of $1,000, and is open to all journalists, working in print, broadcast and online media. Previous winners include journalists from The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, and the ABC, as well as freelance reporters and broadcasters.
As part of the award presentation, a panel of journalists, former Munster award winners, and academics will discuss the issues raised by the winning entry. They'll be taking part in the George Munster Journalism Forum, to be broadcast on ABC Radio National. The forum promises a lively debate on the issue of media independence.
Originally instituted as an award for freelance journalism, the George Munster Award was expanded in 1998 to include applicants who are not freelancers but are able to demonstrate independence of mind and excellence in their craft.
George Munster was a co-founder of the Nation, and a freelance editor, journalist and writer of books. He later became an editor with Angus and Robertson Publishers and reverted to freelance work both as a journalist and book writer. His book Rupert Murdoch: A Paper Prince was launched in October 1985, soon after his death.
For more details, contact : Dominic O'Grady. Phone: (02) 9514 2295
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August 20, 2004
It's today (and tomorrow)
The
PUBLIC RIGHT TO SECURITY Vs PUBLIC RIGHT TO KNOW Media Conference opens
tonight, 6pm, at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), 702 Harris St, Ultimo.
Expect hard questions about the media's coverage of the Iraq war when journalists, academics, students, and media observers gather this weekend at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) for the 2004 Public Right To Know conference.
The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) hosts this annual event. It opens on Friday night, August 20, with Media Watch presenter David Marr and UTS associate professor Wendy Bacon as key speakers. They join international guests Dr Ilan Pape from the University of Haifa and Kathleen Burns from George Mason University in Washington to discuss whether the Australian and international media failed to adequately cover the war in Iraq.
"We are particularly interested in whether the media has failed to be sufficiently critical in assessing intelligence and government assertions about the nature and causes of the threats in the 'war on terror'," says ACIJ director and conference chair, Chris Nash.
"This is relevant in light of the performance of intelligence agencies in the US, UK and Australia. While the question of political doctoring of the more-or-less adequate intelligence advice has been addressed, the adequacy of the media in reporting a lot of the intelligence and political spin has not been probed," Nash says.
Over a dozen presentations will address the conference themes during the weekend event. These include How to Make Defamation Backfire, Photography, Censorship and Public Policy, and No Time for Silence: the deceit behind the legislative silencing of Australian citizens in the name of national security.
Conference presenters include Professor Liz Jacka from the University of Technology, Sydney; Jack Herman from the Australian Press Council; professor Mark Pearson from Bond University; Truda Gray and Associate Professor Brian Martin from the University of Wollongong; Genevieve Rankin from the University of Western Sydney and the Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre; and Dave Sweeney from the Australian Conservation Foundation.
The opening night session starts at 6pm on Friday August 20 with welcome drinks in the Guthrie Lecture Theatre at UTS, followed by presentations from 7pm. The Guthrie Theatre is located on Level 3, 702 - 730 Harris St, Ultimo, next to ABC Sydney.
Full conference details are online at www.acij.uts.edu.au. Registration is free.
CONTACT: Dominic O'Grady. Phone: 02 9514 2295.
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August 06, 2004
Flick mania
I will be returning to the
journoz blog soon but am writing a movie blog,
Flick Knife, for fun in the mean time. I'll be writing about movies currently in the cinema or ones I've just caught up with on DVD. So many reviewers just tell the story of the film -- I'll try to do something different.
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July 26, 2004
Time off
The journoz blog will be on a break for the next couple of weeks. Blame my back, not me, for the hiatus! Let's hope normal service will resume soon.
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June 23, 2004
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
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May 13, 2004
Public Right to Know Conference
Announcement: CALL FOR PAPERS: PUBLIC RIGHT TO KNOW CONFERENCE 2004
The
2004 Public Right to Know conference will be held at the
University
of Technology, Sydney over the weekend of
20-22 August 2004. This is
the fourth in a series of annual conferences organised by the
Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (
http://acij.uts.edu.au/).
The theme for the opening night plenary session will be: The right to
security vs the public right to know.
The conference will focus on two special themes, and welcomes papers that address them:
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 ACIJ will launch an Australian version of Project Censored, begun in
the USA by Sonoma State University.
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.
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
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May 06, 2004
Best Australian journalism
A panel of judges drawn from journalism schools and the news media industry has identified what it considers to be the Best Australian Journalism of the 20th Century. The
Best Australian Journalism of the 20th Century Conference, hosted by RMIT Journalism on
24-26 November 2004 will honour these media milestones, the full list of which can be found at RMIT Journalism's ezine,
Fifth Estate (
http://fifth.estate.rmit.edu.au/) . This interdisciplinary forum will appeal to journalists, journalism academics, historians, communication scholars and others researching the Australian media. Contact RMIT Journalism to receive regular email updates about the conference.
Call for papers
The conference organisers are calling for papers about the Best Australian Journalism of the 20th Century list. Papers may be about individual pieces of journalism, individual journalists or editors, or about professional practice themes arising from the list or indeed about journalism you consider important that has been left off the list. Papers may also be about the political, historical or social context surrounding the specific items on the list. Abstracts of not more than 250 words should be submitted by 16 July to muriel.porter@rmit.edu.au. Please indicate whether you are proposing your paper for the refereed or non-refereed presentation stream.
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January 01, 2004
Bludging
journoz is taking an extended break over January. See you all in February.
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November 18, 2003
Medical writing
The
Australasian Medical Writers Association held their
20th Anniversary Conference in Sydney in November. The Association provides resources for medical writers and contact details for freelance members. Reports on the conference can be found at the AMWA site (
http://www.medicalwriters.org/). Click on the link for
Reports from our Twentieth Anniversary Conference 2003.
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November 07, 2003
World Summit on the Information Society
The
World Summit on the Information Society (
http://www.itu.int/wsis/) is about to open in Geneva. The first phase will be hosted by the Government of Switzerland from 10 to 12 December 2003. The second phase will take place in Tunis almost two years later, from 16 to 18 November 2005, and will be hosted by the Government of Tunisia. The site has a lot of information about the first phase of WSIS, including the
Draft Declaration of Principles (both the latest version and previous versions), the
Draft Plan of Action (again the latest version and previous versions), as well as basic information about WSIS.
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October 24, 2003
Down time
My Web server will be down for three hours on Sunday morning, October 26, for an upgrade.
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September 11, 2003
September 11 sites
Gary Price has collated a handy set of 9/11 links on his
ResourceShelf weblog at
http://www.resourceshelf.com/. Links provided include archives, exhibits, reports, and articles, such as
The Television Archive, a library of world perspectives concerning September 11, 2001, at
http://tvnews3.televisionarchive.org/tvarchive/html/.
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September 05, 2003
BEYOND THE PACIFIC SOLUTION: NEW DIRECTIONS IN REFUGEE POLICY
Australian Policy Online (
http://www.apo.org.au/) is sponsoring a forum,
Beyond the Pacific Solution: new directions in refugee policy, at
1.30 pm next Wednesday 10 September. The
forum features:
- Peter Mares, author of the multi-award-winning book, "Borderline:
Australia's Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers"
- Kathleen Maltzahn, coordinator of Project Respect, a organisation
working with women and girls in the sex industry, particularly women
trafficked to Australia for prostitution
- Klaus Neumann, a senior research fellow at the ISR, who is researching
the history of political asylum in Australia
Venue: AGSE Building, cnr William and Wakefield Sts, Hawthorn 3122
Further details: phone 03 9214 8886.
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September 01, 2003
Pacific Media Conference
The
Pacific Islands Media Association of New Zealand will be holding its 2003 conference on
3 and 4 October at
Auckland University of Technology. Several key events will be happening including the
launches of the Niue Star newspaper and the
Pacific Journalism Review as well as the
PIMA Media Awards. Over the coming weeks, more information about the conference, including registration forms, will be made available via the PIMA website at
http://www.pima.org.nz/.
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August 20, 2003
Today's the day
My book,
Catch the Wave, is being officially launched in Brisbane today. It is also available in bookshops if anyone wants to get hold of it. Details of the book are at
RMIT Publishing's site.
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August 08, 2003
Powerhouse of ideas?
The annual
Ideas at the Powerhouse festival is on again in Brisbane from 14-17 August at the Powerhouse at New Farm. The four-day program features more than 50 national and international speakers and commentators presenting their ideas for the future. Sessions include panels, lectures, discussions and debates. Many of the sessions are free, while some are ticketed at $25 or $15. To book for ticketed sessions, phone the Powerhouse on 07 3358 8600, or visit the Powerhouse box office, open Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm and Saturday 12 noon to 4pm, or book online. The site is at
http://www.ideasatthepowerhouse.com.au/.
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June 25, 2003
Deterrence doesn't solve anything
Peter Mares told a Victorian Department of Justice Forum on Refugees, entitled
Human Rights and the Construction of an Australian Identity, that the partial success of deterrence policies in the West won’t stop the
world refugee crisis from deepening. The full text of the speech is at
http://www.apo.org.au/webboard/items/00330.shtml. It is part of an APO (
http://www.apo.org.au/)
Refugee Special for
World Refugee Day.
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June 24, 2003
Conference on the Public's Right to Know
One date to put in your diary should be
October 17-19, 2003, which is when the
3rd National Conference on the Public Right to Know will be held at the
University of Technology, Sydney. This is the third in a series of annual conferences organised by the
Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (
http://acij.uts.edu.au/). These conferences discuss the concept and application of the Public Right to Know. The conference will combine academic and non-academic presentations and examine the importance of free communication within and between journalism, media, the arts, government, the academy, organisations and the community. Details can be got from the web site at
http://acij.uts.edu.au/pr2k/index.html
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February 07, 2003
investigative journalism - RIP?
The Evatt Foundation is holding a public seminar on
The Death of Investigative Journalism and Who Killed It? Speakers include Phillip Knightley and Four Corners reporter Chris Masters.
Venue: Seymour Centre, Sydney
When: Saturday 15 February, 6pm to 7.30pm
More info can be found at
http://evatt.labor.net.au/events/10_20020309.html .
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November 01, 2002
Bali bombing - seminar in Melbourne
Australian Policy Online will be hosting a seminar in Melbourne on 18 November on the implications of the Bali bombing for Indonesia and Australia. Speakers include Greg Barton (Deakin University), George Williams (Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW), and journalist and novelist Dewi Anggraeni. The seminar will be chaired by Peter Mares, author of
Borderline: Australia’s Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers. More details such as venue and time are at
http://www.apo.org.au/webboard/items/00148.shtml.
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Gays, lesbians and the media discussion
Monday 4 November 2002, 7-9 pm, Level 5 - Lecture Theatre 510, Bon Marche Building 3, University of Technology Sydney
David Marr (Media Watch presenter) and
Margo Kingston (
Sydney Morning Herald) and a panel of gay and lesbian journalists will discuss the representation of gays and lesbians in the media and in media workplaces. This free public forum will be chaired by Marcus O'Donnell (editor of
Sydney Star Observer) and introduced by Wendy Bacon (Associate Professor of Journalism, UTS and Acting Director of the ACIJ). The forum is being held in association with the Gay Games. All welcome.
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