Fourth Estate

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