CMT Researcher Dr. Timothy Koskie talks media diversity and regional media with Genevieve Jacobs AM, whose Region Media Group hosts a variety of regional online news sources that service local communities across NSW. Our conversation touches on how an absence of media diversity is experienced by these groups, as well as how regional media organisations can tackle some of the challenges of the modern media environment.

CMT Research Fellow Dr Michael Davis speaks to Professor Charlie Beckett, the founding director of Polis at the London School of Economics, a thinktank for research and debate around international journalism and society.  In this episode, we’re talking about the risks and opportunities generative AI brings to news organisations around the world, including the moral panic it has stirred up.

Monica speaks with Tracey Kirkland, the Continuous News Editor for the ABC News Channel, and Gavin Fang, Deputy Director at ABC News. Together, they edited a collection of essays that cover the logistical, ethical and existential challenges faced by the news industry during the Pandemic and beyond. It’s called Pandemedia and it asks, how did the pandemic change journalism?  

Derek Wilding explores defamation and freedom of speech with someone who knows a lot about both! Michael Bradley is the founder and managing partner of Marque Lawyers in Sydney. He practises in media law, human rights and electoral law among other areas, and started off representing Private Media in Lachlan Murdoch’s since-abandoned action against Crikey.

For our first episode, Monica Attard speaks to Bernard Collaery, a Canberra lawyer and former ACT Attorney-General, on his prosecution by the Australian Government – recently dropped – for helping to expose a government spy operation against Timor-Leste during treaty negotiations in 2004.