Assoc. Professor Charles N. Davis (Missouri School of Journalism) on digital transparency, and the issue of privacy and access in the information age. Copyright 2009 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

What exactly is journalism education, and how should those who teach it respond to unprecedented changes in the media? And why does it seem that the more that “traditional” media jobs disappear, the more popular journalism degree programs are becoming. This paper aims to provide an overview of recent developments in journalism education, and to examine how journalism is regarded within the ranks of the academy, where it’s place is, to quote American academic Barbie Zelizer ‘often rife with...

How is the media content we make and study being preserved? Is it possible for the internet, a largely uncatalogued, anarchic, ever-expanding archive of the now, to work as a memory site or record office? This paper is concerned with the struggle to store and preserve one threatened kind of media – the newspaper – and its mongrel cousin, the online newspaper. The internet and associated digital technologies mean academic and non-academic researchers have unparalleled access to text-only and...

Mark Scott (Managing Director at the ABC) on the changing media landscape. Under his leadership, the ABC and other free-to-air broadcasters have initiated the digital Freeview campaign to raise the Australian public’s awareness of digital television. Copyright 2009 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Professor Andrew Crissell (Design and Media, University of Sunderland, UK) discusses a recent radio show in which Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand caused public outrage by leaving a lewd message on a celebrity's answerphone. The presentation asks two questions: How did such material come to be broadcast by the BBC, the archetypal public service broadcaster? And what is the future of public service broadcasting (PSB) in the United Kingdom? In addressing these points it explores what the PSB...

World-renowned foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson –staff writer for The New Yorker and author of 'The Fall of Baghdad', one of the major books written on the Iraqi war, talks to Assoc. Professor Nick Bisley A transcript for this podcast is available at http://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2008/podcasts/a-talk-with-jon-lee-anderson/transcript Copyright 2009 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.