Press freedom in the digital era

I sub-edited Journ­al­ism in Troubled Times for the IFJ a few years ago. It’s a sad fact that journ­al­ism is not a safe career choice in many coun­tries and that people who cover war zones and other areas also put them­selves at risk (I believe that...

International TIME zones

Yes, that’s the ter­ribly tacky name for the next ses­sion where Michael Elliot, Inter­na­tional Editor and Deputy Man­aging Editor of TIME magazine is talk­ing to us about all the TIME branded products. Finally, someone’s talk­ing about magazines.Bite-sized, just for...

Digital natives

Inter­est­ingly, the ses­sion this morn­ing on “digital nat­ives”, the people who are already embra­cing the future, fea­tures three women. Cin­na­mon Pol­lard – woman behind thev​ine​.com​.au for Fair­fax to try and get younger people online; Rebekah Horne – gen­eral...

Will media survive? In what way?

The luminar­ies of the Aus­tralian media scene swan in and out of the con­fer­ence. Eric Beecher, young­est editor of the SMH ever then founder of Text Media (and hence once my ex-big boss) and now of course owner of Crikey; Mike van Niekerk, online chief at Fair­fax...

Liveblogging from the FOJ conference

Jay Rosen this morn­ing used a fas­cin­at­ing meta­phor for the situ­ation of journ­al­ist in the new media world: we are migrants cross­ing the sea to a new land, some scared to leave, some excited, all ima­gin­ing what the new world will be like without...