Listen at JNI: Recent Episodes
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Three of Sydney's best storytellers — journalists Chris Masters and Ella-Archibald-Binge, and writer and TV presenter Zoe Norton Lodge — tell us secret stories from the harbour city's history.
From a wharf in Woolloomooloo where the first Anzacs departed in 1914 to a woman's reconnection with the family and culture stolen from her, to the 2000 Sydney Olympics where marching band members dropped like flies.
This Sydney Stories event was hosted by comedian Rebecca De Unamuno at the Judith Neilson Institute, as part of a collaboration between JNI, Phoenix Central Park and Vivid Sydney.
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Three of Sydney's best storytellers — investigative journalists Kate McClymont and Amber Shultz, and Jack the Insider columnist Peter Hoysted — take us on a trip through the harbour city's seedy underbelly.
Hear the hilarious story of a botched arson job in the city's eastern suburbs by two incredibly stupid criminals. Relive the murder of boxer Bobby Lee by Australia's first gangster Chow Hayes. Look back on a conversation with a young priest in a Sydney seminary about addressing the crimes of the Catholic Church.
This first Sydney Stories event was hosted by comedian Rebecca De Unamuno at the Judith Neilson Institute, as part of a collaboration between JNI, Phoenix Central Park and Vivid Sydney.
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The Guardian's Pacific Project launched in 2019 to provide more quality journalism on the region and to give talented Pacific journalists new opportunities to tell stories in their own voices.
Overseeing the project is Pacific Editor Kate Lyons, who has built a network of talented journalists, photographers and filmmakers throughout the region.
Their reporting covers critical strategic, social, environmental, political and criminal issues in the Pacific.
But getting the news out of the region is not easy. Natural disasters, political pressures and technological challenges are common.
JNI's Andrew Griffits sat down with Kate Lyons to discuss the challenges and delights of working on the Pacific Project.
The Guardian's Pacific Project is supported by the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas.
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SBS started as a radio service in 1975 broadcasting in a handful of languages. Today it broadcasts in more than 60 languages and has recently launched a new 24-hour multilingual news channel and a service to help migrants learn English. JNI's Andrew Griffits spoke with SBS' Director of Audio and Language Content, David Hua, to find out more about the new projects and how the public broadcaster's role has changed over the decades.
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In this innovation highlight, JNI's David Skapinker talks to The Age's social affairs editor Jewel Topsfield and illustrator Matt Davidson about creating 'Jack's Story', an innovative, graphic novel-style story about a teenager struggling with his sexuality and isolation during Melbourne's Covid lockdown.
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The West Australian's Editor-in-Chief Anthony De Ceglie delivered the second lecture in JNI's event series ‘The Editors’ at the Institute's Chippendale headquarters on June 2. Anthony De Ceglie is introduced here by the Judith Neilson Institute's Executive Director Mark Ryan.
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7.30’s chief political correspondent Laura Tingle joined Malcolm Farr for the seventh episode of Inside the Media Scrum. This is the full recording of their discussion, in which they consider the final days of the election campaign, whether the media have covered the campaign well enough, and what Scott Morrison's absence from ABC programs means for journalists and voters.
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The election race has been run and won, and the media's performance has been one of the key talking points throughout the campaign. In the final episode of Inside the Media Scrum, Malcolm Farr and Amanda Copp look back at what the media got right and, in some cases, very wrong. They also ponder the future of campaign coverage and the next moves for those who misread public opinion.
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7.30's chief political correspondent Laura Tingle joins Malcolm Farr in the latest episode of Inside the Media Scrum. Together they look at what's ahead in the final days of the election campaign, how the media have been performing, and what the Prime Minister's absence from ABC programs means for journalists and voters.
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The Judith Neilson Institute brought together five acclaimed writers to share their longform storytelling tips — The Saturday Paper's Rick Morton, Good Weekend's Amanda Hooton, ABC Background Briefing's Mahmood Fazal, author and social researcher Rebecca Huntley, and former foreign correspondent and author Nick Bryant.
The event coincided with the launch of The Long Lede, JNI's new mentoring program supporting talented longform writers.
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Powering Earth on green electricity is not fanciful thinking according to engineer and inventor Dr Saul Griffith. He has a plan for generating enough renewable energy to fuel our vast continent. And, according to the leading scientist, with some achievable tweaks to the world of business and the way we approach global capitalism, the transition away from fossil fuels can be achieved. Listen to Saul as he charts his solution – which leans on the help of an unlikely cohort: the Country Women’s Association…
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With two weeks to go in the federal election campaign, is the media missing a trick by ignoring regional and rural issues and voters? Amanda Copp speaks with political journalist Jamieson Murphy from The Land about Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce's retail politics, and what the media is missing out on.
Plus more on the gotcha moments that are putting the media at the centre of the election.
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In this bonus episode of Inside the Media Scrum, Malcolm Farr interviews former independent MP Tony Windsor.
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At the mid-point of the Australian federal election Malcolm and Amanda discuss the mounting criticism from, seemingly, all quarters over the coverage of the campaign.
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Malcolm Farr interviews Anthony De Ceglie, Editor-in-Chief of The West Australian, The Sunday Times, PerthNow.com.au and the entire Seven West Media stable of local papers in Western Australia.
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Malcolm Farr and Amanda Copp are together in Canberra dissecting the latest week of the federal election. Labor leader Anthony Albanese's COVID diagnosis, scare campaigns and the Solomon Islands all made the news this week, while the PM made a gaff. Or did he?
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In an exclusive interview with Tory Maguire, Executive Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times and WAtoday, Malcolm Farr delves into the decision making process behind coverage of the Australian federal election in one of the biggest newsrooms in the country.
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From the press pack coordinating questions to get answers from the PM, to gotcha questions and the glamour of life on the road, Malcolm Farr and Amanda Copp talk week two of the Australian federal election and the way the media are covering the campaign.
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The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's Kate Geraghty and Anthony Galloway have recently returned from assignment in Ukraine, which the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas proudly supported.
Over 6,000 kilometers, 100 checkpoints and dozens of remarkable photos and stories later, Kate and Anthony take you behind the coverage of one of the biggest stories in years.
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The 2022 Australian federal election has started. Amanda Copp is traveling with the PM, and Malcolm is observing the way the election is being covered from the Canberra bubble.
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Two of Australia’s most compelling and controversial leaders met on stage in a rare event to discuss the big issues of today at the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas on April 6.
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating officially launched Indigenous leader Noel Pearson’s new book, Mission.
After the launch, Pearson led a wide-ranging conversation with Keating where they each offered their views on Indigenous recognition, leadership in the 21st century, our nation's place in the world, and the current state of Australian politics.
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Malcolm Farr and Amanda Copp discuss what journalists and media will be doing to get ready to report on the upcoming 2022 Australian federal election.
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The Australian‘s editor-in-chief Christopher Dore delivered the first lecture in JNI’s event series ‘The Editors’, on March 24, in Sydney.
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The Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Idea's first international Journalist-in-Residence, Bill Grueskin, spent several weeks investigating Australia's News Media Bargaining Code — world-leading legislation designed to compel the most profitable tech companies to pay news publishers for their content.
Grueskin, a professor at New York's Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, spoke to dozens of media industry players, politicians and the publishers affected by the code to uncover its implications in Australia and around the world.
He presented his findings during a special event at the Judith Neilson Institute on March 10, 2022.
You can read more about Bill Grueskin's findings here.
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