Journalism in the 21st Century - keynote podcasts available

The Keynote sessions at the Journalism in the 21st Century: Between Globalisation and National Identity conference is now available as podcasts from the SBS Radio site. I participated in the session titled "Journalism in the New Digital Age: New Directions for national and international media outlets", with Valerio Veo (Executive Producer Online Current Affairs SBS, Sydney), Christoph Lanz (Director Television, Deutsche Welle, Berlin), and Bruce Dover (Chief Executive ABC International TV, Sydney).

The theme of the session was:

The currently proclaimed ‘crisis’ of journalism is caused by new increasingly complex technology developments. Traditional media are deeply challenged by a number of different developments which question not only their business models but also ways of journalistic practice. New transnational interactive journalistic formats but also forms of a ‘global presence’ of local, national or international outlets have an impact on business models as well as journalism practice. Questions asked are: is there a role for national journalism in such a globalized sphere? What are quality standards of new forms of ‘interactive’ journalism? What are the new models of covering worldwide events? What is the role of journalism as a 4th estate in an international context?

Radio lecture at QUT

Here is a presentation that I gave to QUT students in the Media and Communications Industries unit on 27 August 2008.

In considering notable things about Australian radio, some that came to my attention have been:

• the growth of community radio, to generate one of the most vibrant systems of this media form in the world
• the unique power and influence of talkback radio hosts (which may now be waning)
  
• the way that podcasting has given a new prominence to Radio National and to forms of programming that have never been high rating but which can be done well through the medium, such as documentaries
  

One thing that I would be interested to know is what percentage of total radio downloads are from the ABC generally, and Radio National in particular. If anyone knows how to find this out, please drop me a comment.

Radio lecture for Media and Communication Industries - QUT

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