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Friday 09 October
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
A team of researchers led by the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne has been investigating the role journalism plays in Australian civic life. Here they discuss how and why journalism matters, and present some of their preliminary research findings based on dozens of interviews across Australia.
With Doug Hendrie, Andrea Carson, Denis Muller and Margaret Simons.
Featuring
Doug Hendrie
A freelance foreign correspondent, magazine writer and lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Doug’s interest is in the unusual – subcultures, personalities, histories.
He’s reported on everything from Gold Coast sex surrogates to the Cave Clan urban explorers of Melbourne, and was the principal researcher for Jacqueline Kent’s biography of Julia Gillard.
His work has been published in the Christian Science Monitor (US), the Diplomat, the Australian, the Age, the Griffith Review, Good Weekend, Edge magazine (UK), PC Powerplay, Penthouse Australia, New Matilda, ABC’s The Drum, New Matilda, Sunday Life and more.
Andrea Carson
Dr Andrea Carson is a lecturer in Media and Politics at the University of Melbourne. She is also an honorary fellow at the University’s Centre for Advancing Journalism. Her main research areas are the relationship between news media and democracy; the role of investigative journalism; and political communication.
Andrea was previously a news journalist at the Age and has worked as a reporter, producer and broadcaster in radio (ABC 774, 3RRR) television (7.30 Report) and online (the Age, ABC). Before commencing her PhD, Andrea produced ABC 774’s morning radio program with Jon Faine.
She regularly contributes opinion pieces to the Age, the Conversation, the Drum, New Matilda, Crikey, the Citizen and has a regular guest commentator role on air at ABC 774.
Denis Muller
Denis Muller is a leading expert on media ethics and worked as a journalist for 27 years, including as assistant editor at the Sydney Morning Herald and associate editor at the Age.
Since 1995, he has conducted independent social and policy research across education, health, environment and media fields. Dr Muller teaches media ethics for the Master of Journalism at Melbourne University and is the author of Media Ethics and Disasters and Journalism Ethics for the Digital Age. Denis is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Journalism.
Margaret Simons
Margaret Simons is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University. In 2015, she won the Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism. Her recent books include Six Square Metres, Self-Made Man: The Kerry Stokes Story, What's Next in Journalism?, Journalism at the Crossroads and Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs, co-written with former Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser. The latter won both the Book of the Year and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2011.
In addition to her academic work, Margaret regularly writes for the Saturday Paper, the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, the Monthly and other publications.