In partnership with 2SER 107.3, the WalkleyTalks podcast presents the latest episode of Fourth Estate. The Fourth Estate is a weekly program about the media featuring some of Australia’s leading journalists, broadcast live each Monday at 6.30pm on 2SER 107.3.

For this episode, host Michael Koziol is joined by:

ABC Radio PM host Mark Colvin
The Australian's James Jeffrey
Guardian Australia reporter Bridie Jabour 
New Matilda's Adam Brereton

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Fourth Estate: Mark Colvin, James Jeffrey, Bridie Jabour & Adam Brereton

PANEL 1 - Interpreting Polls

PANEL 2 - Election Reporting

PANEL 3 - Journalism International Persepective Copy.output

PANEL 4 - Lesson For Regional Journalism From The International Persepective

PANEL 5 - Regional Journalism - The Heartbeat Of The Community

PANEL 6 - Who Is Investing In Regional Journalism

PANEL 7 - Regional Journalism - The New Wave

PRESENTATION 1 - Adam Portelli

PRESENTATION 2 - Simon Crerar

PRESENTATION 3 - Kristy Hess

PRESENTATION 4 - Andrew Hunter, Facebook

PRESENTATION 5 - Shilpa Jhunjhunwala, Head Of News Partnerships, Google

The dust is now settling on the Abbott Government's first budget. How did the Australian press respond to the budget overall and how will the media respond to proposed cuts to the ABC and SBS? 

In partnership with 2SER 107.3, the WalkleyTalks podcast presents the latest episode of Fourth Estate. The Fourth Estate is a weekly program about the media featuring some of Australia’s leading journalists, broadcast live each Monday at 6.30pm on 2SER 107.3.

For this episode, the panel is:

The Australian Financial Review's Jacob Greber
The Sydney Morning Herald's Tim Elliott
Freelance journalist Claire Stewart

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Fourth Estate: Jacob Greber, Tim Elliott & Claire Stewart

Join Patrick Abboud, Hal Crawford and 2013 Walkley Award winner Madhvi Pankhania as they discuss with Christopher Warren how social media and multi-media storytelling are changing journalism. Presented by the Walkley Foundation in partnership with the Sydney Writers Festival.  

The Rally Cry: Stories that inspire change

Joanne McCarthy, Sarah Ferguson and Trevor Bormann discuss the stories they have broken with Christopher Warren. Presented by the Walkley Foundation in partnership with the Sydney Writers Festival. 

Courage, Persistence and Investigative Journalism

This is a special series of podcast brought to you with the support of Sky A-PAC and Macquarie University.

Macquarie University's Centre for Media History is proud to announce a special symposium to mark the 50th anniversary of The Australian held on the 7th and 8th of July, 2014.

In this segment of the symposium, we hear a discussion on the lively and colourful world of the Arts and the way The Australian has covered it since the 1960s. 

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The Heart of the Nation? 50 years of The Australian - The Arts

 Six-time Walkley Award-winner Pamela Williams was awarded the Walkley Book Award in 2013 for Killing Fairfax (Harper Collins) – an expose of the fortunes of Fairfax Media inspired by the huge rounds of redundancies and cuts that arrived at the media company after years of challenges to its newspaper business model.

Judges described Killing Fairfax as a detailed, insightful and powerful explanation of what happened when digital adventurers ambushed the traditional Australian media empires which had built what had been considered impregnable fortresses out of the revenue from newspaper advertising. The fortresses crumbled – and were hastily subjected to desperate reconstruction plans – as the digital interlopers gained strength, income and influence.
As an investigative reporter at The Australian Financial Review, covering politics and the business world, Pamela Williams has won five Walkley Awards since 1994, including the Gold Walkley in 1998 for her coverage of the war on the Australian docks. She has also won the Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year award. She is the author of two best-selling books – the political campaign book, The Victory – on the rise of the Howard Government and the business book, Killing Fairfax, which detailed the collapse of the advertising model which had been the financial backbone of the Fairfax Media Empire.

This fascinating discussion will be hosted by Richard Aedy, host of ABC’s Media Report. Richard began his journalistic career in 1988 in New Zealand and has worked as reporter, producer, executive producer and presenter in three countries, including four years at the BBC in London.
As a journalist, Richard has covered crime, aviation, industrial affairs, science, health, technology, education, economics, epidemiology, indigenous issues, social change and the media. He has made award-winning documentaries in Colombia, East Timor, the United States and the UK. After more than 20 years, he remains interested in everything. Richard is a former Reuters Foundation Fellow at Oxford, former presenter of The Buzz and he presented Life Matters from 2006 to the end of last year. He is a lifelong media junkie.

Killing Fairfax: Pamela Williams in conversation with Richard Aedy

Whistleblowers and journalists play a crucial role in scrutinising the powerful and holding them to account. The revelations by Edward Snowden have transformed our understanding of how sweeping digital surveillance techniques capture personal information about all of us. 

They have also exposed the immense dangers faced by whistleblowers in exposing illegality by governments, with Snowden having fled the US and currently residing in Russia.

This MEAA and The Walkley Foundation special event, in partnership with Blueprint for Free Speech, features US whistleblower Thomas Drake, a former senior executive of the US National Security Agency, together with Edward Snowden’s US defence attorney Jesselyn Radack in discussion with ABC broadcaster Quentin Dempster. 

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Whistleblowers In The Surveillance State: Human rights’ digital battleground

This weeks discussion on Fourth Estate revolves around press freedom and the questions raised by the the super-injunction and the ethics of recording conversations in the wake of the Age dictaphone saga or as the panelists call it "dictagate". 

This weeks panelists:
Cassandra Wilkinson - The Australian/FBi Radio
Andy Park - SBS
Claire Stewart - freelancer, ABC and Fairfax
John Birmingham - columnist, Fairfax and author of "He Died with a Felafel in his Hand"

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Fourth Estate - Cassandra Wilkinson, Andy Park, Claire Stewart and John Birmingham

Photographers can get to the heart of a news story in a single shot - hear from experts in the field on the state of photojournalism in Australia and the world. Listen as former The Age editor Michael Gawenda, photojournalists Simon O’Dwyer and Justin McManus, and academics Julie Millowick and Fay Anderson, discuss their professional experiences, stories from behind the lens, and wider issues from the decline of traditional newsprint to the rise of citizen journalism. COURTESY: STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA

In Focus: The State Of Australian Photojournalism (Presented by State Library Victoria)

This week the panel discuss how coverage of Malcolm Fraser's death overshadowed the Moss Review; the controversial exit of a news.com.au staffer; John Laws' unkind response to a vulnerable caller; and the end of the road for online women's destination The Hoopla.

With Cassandra Wilkinson (FBi Radio), Heath Aston (SMH) and Alex McKinnon (Junkee).

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Fourth Estate: Cassandra Wilkinson, Heath Aston, Alex McKinnon

This week the panel discuss how a court issued suppression order kept the lid of the past of Jill Meagher’s killer Adrian Bayley, the perils of reporting on vaccination and why Sydney newspapers editorialised ahead of the NSW Election.

With Rick Morton (The Australian), Jane Lee (The Age) and Michael Safi (Guardian Australia).

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Fourth Estate: Rick Morton, Jane Lee, Michael Safi

This week the panel discuss how SBS’s new commercial direction is impacting their news and ratings, whether the Australian media has gone overboard with the Anzac Centenary coverage and why new research is showing that women are not participating fully in online news discussion forums.

With Wendy Bacon (investigative journalist), Mark Skulley (freelance journalist), Yaara Bou Melhem (independent reporter) and Lauren Ingram (The CEO Magazine).​

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Fourth Estate: Wendy Bacon, Mark Skulley, Yaara Bou Melhem, Lauren Ingram

This week the panel discuss how SBS sports presenter Scott McIntyre lost his job over tweets about ANZAC Day, how ACMA's findings might be used to punish 2DayFM over their infamous Royal Prank call and whether Charlie Pickering's new show The Weekly is the news satire show we really need.

With Michael Bodey (The Australian), Chris Graham (New Matilda) and Chris Berg (ABC The Drum).

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Fourth Estate: Michael Bodey, Chris Graham, Chris Berg

This podcast is about killer stories - literally. Our panel of journalists digs into why true crime stories are so compelling, and why they’re having a huge moment in podcasting. You’ll hear from Nicole Hogan (The Daily Telegraph / Eight Minutes), Mary-Ann Harris (New Idea Investigates) and Allan Clarke (ABC / Unravel True Crime, Blood on the Tracks) moderated by Claire Harvey (Sunday Telegraph).

A special edition of Walkley Talks — conversations from Storyology, the Walkley Foundation’s 2018 journalism festival. Recorded at the State Library of NSW on July 26. This podcast was produced by Kevin Suarez, for The Walkley Foundation, at the 2SER studios in Sydney Australia.

Killer Stories: True Crime & Podcasts

Exposing corruption and abuse; pushing for changes to law and policy that protect everyday Australians: that’s the power of great investigative journalism. It’s work that takes a lot of time, investment and skill from journalists: three things that are under more pressure than ever in today’s media. A new culture is emerging, of collaborative projects and new funding sources to support this work. A brave new world of public interest journalism, where the bottom line is less about dollars and more about impact.

In a conversation presented by the Walkley Foundation and RMIT, hear from special guest Robert J Rosenthal about how nonprofit newsrooms are working in the US. An award-winning journalist and editor of some of the US’ biggest newspapers, he went on to run the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, taking it from a staff of six and a budget of under a million dollars in 2008; to today’s award-winning, multimedia public service news organisation with a staff of 70 and a budget of over $10 million annually.

Robert is joined by a panel of stellar Australian journalists:
Sushi Das, journalist, RMIT/ABC Fact Check
Stephen Drill, journalist, Herald Sun
Robert J Rosenthal (US)
Participating moderator: Michael Bachelard, investigations editor, The Age, (2018 Gold Walkley winner)

This podcast was edited by Kevin Suarez at 2ser studios, Sydney.
The discussion was recorded in Melbourne on September 4 2018. We were lucky to have the support of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund to bring Robert to Australia. Thanks also to Private Media for their support on this event.

Investigative journalism changes lives and laws. But who pays for it?

From defamation to state security – how does the law affect journalists’ ability to expose the truth? To discuss this topic, we have an all star panel of legal writers and editors, a lawyer and a judge:
*Richard Ackland, editor, Justinian / legal affairs editor, The Saturday Paper 
*Kate Haddock, partner, Banki Haddock Fiora
*Nicola Berkovic, legal affairs writer, The Australian 
*Judge Judith Gibson, District Court of NSW / Bulletin author for Australian Defamation Law and Practice 
*Moderator: Marcus Strom, media adviser, University of Sydney / Media section president, MEAA 

This talk was recorded at the State Library of New South Wales on September 20, 2018, as part of our regular Walkley Talks series there.

Read Richard Ackland’s essay on the legal landscape for journalism, part of the Walkley Journalism Explored essay series (supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund). 

https://medium.com/the-walkley-magazine/legal-frictions-96ee2b03b983

Thanks also to Banki Haddock Fiora, Walkley Foundation legal partner.

This podcast is produced by Kevin Suarez with help from the 2SER studios in Sydney, Australia.

The Legal Landscape for Journalism

Statistics show that in Australia, on average, one woman a week is murdered by her current or former partner. With gender-based violence at such critical levels, how influential can the media be in educating Australians, and ultimately changing behaviours to prevent violence? 

In this episode you’ll hear from journalists who are leading the way in this space:
* Gina Rushton, Buzzfeed News, 2019 Our Watch Fellow
* Sarah Malik, SBS Life, 2019 Our Watch Fellow
* Alison Dance, 10 Daily, 2019 Our Watch Fellow
Moderator: Eryk Bagshaw, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, 2017 Our Watch Award winner for Best journalism campaign

You’ll also hear introductory remarks from Jan Earthstar, a senior advisor at Our Watch.

This talk was recorded at the State Library of New South Wales on July 18, 2019, as part of our regular Walkley Talks series there.

This podcast is produced by Kevin Suarez with help from the 2SER studios in Sydney, Australia.

If you or someone you know is impacted by sexual assault, family or domestic violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or visit www.1800RESPECT.org.au. In an emergency, call 000.

Resources: 
To access Our Watch’s guides for reporting about violence against women and their children, visit: www.mediamakingchange.org.au 

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Changing the conversation on violence against women

Listen back to this podcast from live talks series “Walkleys Live: The Journalism Gene” at Sydney Festival 2021, with host Benjamin Law discussing the art and pressures of photojournalism in natural disasters with photojournalists Sylvia Liber and Nick Moir.

This “Walkleys Live: The Journalism Gene” podcast was produced by Sydney Festival in collaboration with the Walkley Foundation.

Walkleys Live 2021: Nick Moir & Sylvia Liber: Triggered – Photojournalism in Natural Disasters

Listen back to this podcast from live talks series “Walkleys Live: The Journalism Gene” at Sydney Festival 2021, with host Jan Fran exploring Walkley-winning work “The Killing Times” – an investigation tracking the state-sanctioned massacres of Indigenous people across Australia – with Guardian Australia’s Lorena Allam and Laura Murphy-Oates.

This “Walkleys Live: The Journalism Gene” podcast was produced by Sydney Festival in collaboration with the Walkley Foundation.

Walkleys Live 2021: Laura Murphy-Oates & Lorena Allam: The Killing Times

Listen back to this podcast from live talks series “Walkleys Live: The Journalism Gene” at Sydney Festival 2021, with host Benjamin Law discussing with host, video journalist and storyteller Patrick Abboud his reporting from within subcultures and reputation for "doing diversity" right. This “Walkleys Live: The Journalism Gene” podcast was produced by Sydney Festival in collaboration with the Walkley Foundation.

Walkleys Live 2021: Patrick Abboud: 'Doing' Diversity, Out & Proud

Listen back to this podcast from live talks series “Walkleys Live: The Journalism Gene” at Sydney Festival 2021, with host Jan Fran delving into the countless massive investigations broken by The Sydney Morning Herald‘s investigative journalist Kate McClymont, a multiple Walkley-winner and hilarious storyteller.

This “Walkleys Live: The Journalism Gene” podcast was produced by Sydney Festival in collaboration with the Walkley Foundation.

Walkleys Live 2021: Kate McClymont: Digging up the underbelly of Sydney's upper echelon

Listen back to this podcast from live talks series “Walkleys Live: The Journalism Gene” at Sydney Festival 2021, with host Benjamin Law discussing Seven News’ host Chris Reason’s middle-of-the-action reporting on the Lindt Café Siege in Sydney and September 11 in New York and reflecting on the lessons of Reason’s esteemed career.

This “Walkleys Live: The Journalism Gene” podcast was produced by Sydney Festival in collaboration with the Walkley Foundation.

Walkleys Live 2021: Chris Reason: Terror on the Ground – Lindt Café Siege

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