Media Makers: Journalism Then & Now
Series
Where
When
Friday, 21 Aug 2015, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Event Status
Past event
What’s it like to be a political reporter today, when breaking news is measured by second-by-second tweets (instead of next-day newspapers)? How has it changed over the decades?
In this Fifth Estate event, we’ll hear from Fairfax’s Latika Bourke and ABC TV’s Barrie Cassidy.
Featuring
Featuring
Sally Warhaft is a Melbourne broadcaster, anthropologist and writer. She is the host of The Fifth Estate, the Wheeler Centre’s live series focusing on journalism, politics, media, and international relations, and The Leap Year, a Wheeler Centre podcast about Australians’ lives in the fog of ... Read more
Barrie Cassidy is host of the ABC’s top rating Sunday morning political discussion program Insiders – now in its 14th year. Until recently he also hosted the sporting equivalent companion program Offsiders. Barrie has been a journalist for 47 years – and a political journalist since 1977.... Read more
Latika Bourke is well known as a keen user of social media in her work as a political journalist in Canberra. She has previously reported for 2UE Radio, the ABC and now Fairfax publications, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Her latest pursuit is the product of a personal adventure. Her first b... Read more
Location
The Atrium Flinders Street Federation Square Melbourne Victoria 3000
More detailsWatch, Listen, Read
Watch
Jane Smiley in Conversation
18 Apr 2024
Listen
Richard Flanagan: Question 7
15 Apr 2024
Watch
In Conversation with Fern Brady: Strong Female Character
12 Apr 2024
Watch
Mind Over Machine: AI, Creativity, Humanities, and the Arts
10 Apr 2024
Listen
Being Biracial Live at The Round with Aurelia St Clair and Darcy Vescio
6 Apr 2024
Watch
Richard Ford in Conversation
5 Apr 2024