Fourth Estate

This week we have a special interview with Ulrik Haagerup, the Founder and CEO of Constructive Institute, about what our media is getting wrong and how constructive journalism could be the answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look at how the media covers domestic violence, why in 2020 our newsrooms are less equal places to work and the rise of sports journalism. Chrisanthi Giotis is joined by Gina Rushton, Emily Watkins, Jane Gilmore, and Louise Evans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look at the ABC's failed appeal against the AFP's search warrant, we also talk about the latest on Julian Assange and we talk about the three Wall Street Journal journalists expelled from China. To go through these issues Monica Attard was joined by Marcus Strom, Annika Smethurst, and Joe Hilderbrand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look at the Coronavirus and how it was covered by the media both here and in China. Monica Attard spoke with Bill Birtles, Rachel Clun and Kirsty Needham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back for 2020 with a look at how the media covered the bushfires with our new host Monica Attard. She spoke with Justin Stevens Executive Producer for 7.30, Ben Cubby Night Editor for Sydney Morning Herald and Daniela Scotti a UTS Journalism student. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have an edited version of a recent Meet the Journalist talk from the University of Technology featuring ABC's Leigh Sales. The interview was conducted by UTS post grad student Wendy John and covers Leigh's childhood in Queensland and her time at 7.30 Report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have an edited version of a recent Meet the Journalist talk from the University of Technology featuring ABC's Fran Kelly. The interview was conducted by UTS student Myles Houlbrook-Walk and covers much of Fran Kelly's career and her time at community radio and her time fronting the band Toxic Shock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have an edited version of a recent Meet the Journalist talk from the University of Technology featuring Richard Cooke. The interview was conducted by UTS student John Ferguson and covers much of Richard Cooke's career and his travels through America in 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have an edited version of a recent Meet the Journalist talk from the University of Technology. The interview was conducted by UTS student Oliviana Smith-Lathrouis and covers much of Emma Alberici's career including her recent battles with former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have a special conversation recorded live in front of an audience at UTS between Peter Fray and Richard Gingras who is the most senior global 'news' executive at Google. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Peter Fray speaks with Michael Koziol from SMH and the Age and Lorena Allam from the Guardian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we take a detailed look at the community sector. In the last decade its added a million new listeners and is still growing. To help us understand why the community sector is so strong in Australia we speak to Amy Mullins from RRR, Annie Hastwell from Radio Adelaide and Danny Butler from 2SER. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look at two very different start ups with Michael West and Carol Altmann. We are also joined by Chrisanthi Giotis, journalist, academic and the co-author of a new report on regional news media by the Centre for Media Transition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we talk to Claire Kimball and Kate Watson from the Squiz and Clare Stephens from MamaMia about making dynamic content for a largely female audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have a great chat with Schwartz Media's Rebecca Costello and Mumbrella's Tim Burrowes about their careers and making a success out of running a business in the media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have a chat with Kate McClymont about her new book Dead Man Walking. The book is a wild ride through Sydney's underbelly of criminals, the rich and our political class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look at three culture wars going on in Australia at the moment. To do that we are joined by a panel well qualified to navigate us through these thorny issues. Joining Peter Fray this week we have radio expert from Radio Info Steve Ahern, advertising expert Denise Shrivell and Opinion Editor from the Daily Telegraph James Morrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we talk to Lisa Davies Editor, Sydney Morning Heard. In this wide-ranging talk we ask here about the recent Liberal Party fundraiser at Nine, Alan Jones and the way forward for SMH. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a special chat for you with Steve Coll who is currently in Australia as part of Antidote. Steve Coll is the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. He is also a staff writer for the New Yorker and is a Penguin Press author. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we talk to Peter Lewis about polls, life after journalism and his new book Webtopia. His new book is an urgent call to rethink our lives in the age of the internet and social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we chat with Sally Young about her new book, Paper Emperors, the Rise of Australian's Newspaper Empires. Her book looks at the birth of Australia's major newspapers and the people who ran them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we chat with the director of the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism & Ideas, Mark Ryan. Peter Fray chatted with him about his time working for Paul Keating and how the Judith Neilson Institute will support journalism and the media in Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our second look at the ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry, we dig deeper into what it may mean for the Australian media. To help us do this we chat with Derek Wilding, the Co-Director for the Centre for Media Transition at UTS and Sacha Molitorisz Directorial Research fellow also from the CMT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ACCC has just released 619-page report on the power and impact of digital platforms on Australian media. To help us make sense of the report but to also see what it could mean for our media we have a special in-depth discussion with the chairman of the ACCC, Rod Sims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The media and the world seem trapped in a binary world of heroes and villains - why is that and can we break free? This week's heroes and villains include a look at press freedom, George Columbaris on the Good Weekend cover, Channel Nine and the ABC wreck their brands on conspiracy theories, Facebook and yes Julian Assange. To discuss this and much more our host Peter Fray chatted with Sarah Elks, Simon Crerar, and Wilson Da Silva. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we examine how US publications downplayed Jean Carroll's allegation against Trump and how we've become desensitised to #MeToo statements, how criticising Trump cost Sir Kim Darroch his title as UK Ambassador, and Amal Clooney's criticism of raids on the ABC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look at the latest revelation about AFP accessing journalists metadata, Facebook and defamation and we also talk about is a lack of diversity in the media hurting the media's ability to speak to all Australians. To discuss all of this we are joined by Antoinette Lattouf from Ch10, Emily Watkins from Crikey and Ricky Sutton CEO of Oovvuu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we talk to News.com.au's Editor in Chief Kate de Brito. Peter Fray asked her to spill the beans on how News.com.au came to be the countries number one news website and about her path to the world of journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special interview Peter Fray talks to Peter Greste about the continuing fight for securing a free press in Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak with Professor David Rolph from the University of Sydney and Quentin Dempster from the New Daily about ABC, NewsCorp and Nine joining together to fight for the freedom of the press. We also look at the defamation case involving Dylan Voller and also the latest move in click bait journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we dive deep with Erik Jensen, the editor-in-chief of the Saturday Paper, talking about his career, being shot, hate speech and the future of journalism. Oh, and what a waste of money polling is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak to Caroline Fisher from the University of Canberra, the project leader for the Australian section of the Digital News Report, the global survey of news consumers from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. The study has number of interesting and perplexing findings for the state of the media in Australia and around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look in detail at the two raids by AFP on the ABC and News Corp journalist, Annika Smethurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we turn our gaze overseas and ask an expert panel what has been happening with Brexit and how does Australia view the world. We speak with Jamie Smyth from Financial Times, Jonathan Pearlman from Australian Foreign Affairs and Chrisanthi Giotis from Centre for Media Transition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have an expert panel of Fact Checkers and we ask them just how toxic was the election and should we chuck our opinion polls in the bin. To help us with this and much more we spoke to Lucinda Beaman from RMIT ABC Fact Check, Anne Kruger Editor of First Draft News and Michael Hopkin acting Editor of Fact Check at the Conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Marr talks to 2SER's Daniel Butler about Australia and why we find it difficult to change as country. He also talks about his life in writing and journalism and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look at how the media has covered the election and is News Corporation suffering from political bias? Our panel this week comprises of Kylar Loussikian from SMH and the Age, Emily Watkins from Crikey and Brad Esposito from Pedestrian Daily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From 2SER's the Middle we talk about media coverage of China, with the journalists who report on it. What are the realities of reporting from China, and does Australia's media get it right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak with Bill Adair who is the founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact and Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University. Peter Fray chatted with Bill about how you make facts count and can you actually keep our leaders honest in real time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Waiting for your next Fourth Estate fix? We’ve got something else for you in the meantime. Introducing a new season of All Things Equal. This series will take you into the school yard and beyond, where kids learn that things aren't always fair. Through the stories of real students and staff, Uniform will change the way you think about education; because when it comes to learning, one size does not fit all. Subscribe to All Things Equal in your favourite podcast app, or listen to the show here: https://www.whooshkaa.com/shows/after-metoo-stories-of-social-change Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak to Andrew Jaspan about the media's coverage of the election and why Google and Facebook should help pay for our media. We also touch on how he started the Conversation and its importance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak to Stephen Davis about his new book Truthteller and the very real dangers of fake news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We speak with the President of the MEAA, Marcus Strom, about press freedom and why we should be concerned about Julian Assange Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Australian media has recently been on the wrong side of a number of high profile defamations cases and last week one of the largest again went against the media - The Daily Telegraph and its case against Australian actor Geoffrey Rush. This case raises a number of very significant issues for the news media and in turn the Me Too movement in this country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We chat with Bill Birnauer, who is a long-time ICIJ member with more than 30 years’ experience in journalism at The Age, The Sunday Age and The Herald. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang region of Western China are the subject of an intense crackdown by the state, with up to one million Uyghur people being held without charge in so-called "re-education" camps. The crisis presents a unique set of challenges for journalists reporting on human rights in the 21st century. Producer Cheyne Anderson speaks to Buzzfeed News world correspondent Megha Rajagopalan, who won a 2018 Human Rights Press Award for her reporting on the crackdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we unpack how the Christchurch terror attack was covered in Australian media, and overseas. We spoke to journalist Jennine Khalik , Abdallah Kamal from SBS and Associate Professor Colleen Murrell from Swinburne University of Technology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special edition with the Guardian's Nick Evershed and Metafact's Ben McNeil about their work and future of Journalism in AI and fake news world. Metafact has a Kickstarter and if you want to help out go here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/metafact/metafact-fact-checking-powered-by-science?ref=e1at7u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The week Peter Fray speaks with Gaven Morris, ABC’s Director News, Analysis & Investigations, about an eventful year and the way forward for the ABC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak with Annick Cojean who is a special correspondent from Le Monde. She is joined by 2SER's Cheyne Anderson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices