The Guardians

Series

The Fifth Estate

Where

Melbourne City Conference Centre

When

Thursday, 14 Nov 2013, 06:15pm - 07:15pm

Event Status

Past event

Download the podcast. It’s been 192 years since the founding of the British Guardian (formerly the Manchester Guardian) and just five months since the newspaper’s launch of an Australian edition – independent, online and free. So how is Australia’s latest source of news and current affairs faring? How does it fit in with Australia’s media culture? What is the plan for success? And how does this organisation maintain its independence?

Join host Sally Warhaft with Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, visiting from the UK, and Guardian Australia editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, to discuss the news, newspapers and Australia’s latest addition to online journalism.

Featuring

Alan Rusbridger

Katharine Viner

Sally Warhaft

Featuring

Alan Rusbridger

Alan Rusbridger has been editor of the Guardian since 1995. Rusbridger’s career began on the Cambridge Evening News, where he trained as a reporter before first joining the Guardian in 1979. He worked as a general reporter, feature writer and diary columnist before leaving to succeed Clive James a... Read more

Katharine Viner

Katharine Viner is editor-in-chief of Guardian Australia and deputy editor of the Guardian worldwide. She joined the paper in 1997 and has worked as a feature writer, deputy women’s editor, deputy features editor, editor of Weekend magazine, features editor and Saturday editor. ... Read more

Sally Warhaft

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

@SallyWarhaft