Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 20 September
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Today’s American media is sharply divided along left and right political lines, with little room in the middle for the objective news and current affairs that was once the norm. From Fox News to The Daily Show, the New York Post to the New York Times, everyone has an agenda.
Are the public being duped – or are they complicit? And how far does the media influence politics ... will it elect the next president, or will the people? What lessons does all this hold for Australia?
Join Richard Fidler, former Newsweek deputy editor Julia Baird and the ABC’s Siobhan Heanue to talk about media and cultural empires in the land of the stars and stripes with Sophie Black.
Featuring
Richard Fidler
Richard Fidler presents Conversations on ABC Radio, a long form, in-depth interview program, which attracts a large listening audience around the nation, and is one the most popular podcasts in Australia ...
Siobhan Heanue
Siobhan Heanue is a journalist and presenter for ABC television and radio news. She joined the ABC as a news cadet and is now a Canberra-based reporter.
Her reports appear on a range of current affairs programs, including ABC TV’s Lateline, and she presents The Culture Quarter on ABC News 24.
In 2011 Heanue was the recipient of the US Studies Centre’s inaugural media fellowship, in partnership with the World Press Institute. In two months of immersion in US politics, business, culture and media she visited the New York Times, CNN and the Obama 2012 campaign headquarters in Chicago.
Sophie Black
Sophie Black is a writer, journalist and Crikey’s editor-in-chief. She has worked in senior management across cultural and media organisations, and has written for outlets such as The Guardian and The Monthly. As the ...
Julia Baird
Julia Baird is an award-winning author and journalist. She writes columns for Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the ABC. Her first book, Media Tarts, which was re-released in 2021, was based on her history PhD ...