Fourth Estate

This week we chat with comedian and news satirist Dan Ilic about his craft, podcasting, and fighting disinformation. Produced and hosted by Anthony Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week in our second look at the media and the Voice referendum we turn our attention to the ABC. Join us as we engage in a thought-provoking discussion with industry experts Quentin Dempster and Alan Sunderland.  Produced and hosted by Anthony Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look over the wreckage from the Voice Referendum and ask did our media do its job and did we also just see a shift in the way politics is argued in this country. Our guest this week is Professor Mark Kenny. Produced and hosted by Anthony Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look at the nature and tone of the debate around the Voice and we also ask are recent changes to Twitter (X) the final straw for media organisations on the platform. Our guests were Paul Karp and Charlie Lewis. Produced and hosted by Anthony Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have a special chat with comedian and satirist Mark Humphries about his career and what he thinks of satire and the media. Produced and hosted by Anthony Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the full recording of the recent UTS Truth-Telling and News seminar. Panelists: Lorena Allam, Indigenous Affairs Editor, The Guardian Australia; Dr Archie Thomas, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UTS; Associate Professor Inker-Anni Sara, Sámi University of Applied Sciences; Professor Eli Skogerbo, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recently a seminar was held at UTS Sydney called Truth-Telling and News Media. The event had a range of speakers talking about the issues and cultural awareness needed for our media to conduct truth-telling about indigenous peoples and the aftermath of colonialism. The seminar was facilitated by Dr Archie Thomas who is the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UTS. Panelists were Lorena Allam, Indigenous Affairs Editor, The Guardian Australia; Associate Professor Inker-Anni Sara, Sámi University of Applied Sciences; Professor Eli Skogerbo, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo This episode is an edited excerpt from the seminar. If you want to hear the full seminar it is available now in the Fourth Estate Podcast feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we talk with Thomas Mayo and Kerry O'Brien about their new book The Voice To Parliament Handbook. In a wide-ranging discussion, we talk about why the Voice is necessary and how the media should cover the debate. Produced and hosted by Anthony Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look at Elon Musk's moves to remove the block function from Twitter/X. We spoke to Dr. Jay Daniel Thompson from RMIT Produced and hosted by Anthony Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we talk with Lucinda Holdforth about her new book 21st-Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our Democracy. Produced and hosted by Anthony Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's program is a chat with Stuart Coupe about his new book Shake Some Action. Stuart takes us through his decades-long career as a journalist working in the music industry. Producer and host was Anthony Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak with Leonid Ragozin about Prigozhin's failed mutiny and what this means for Putin. Your host this week was Monica Attard Produced by Anthony Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak with independent journalist Antony Loewenstein about his new book called The Palestine Laboratory. Your host Monica Attard Produced by Anthony Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak with academic and author Dr. Chrisanthi Giotis. Her new book is called Borderland and it explores how colonisation and long-standing processes of Western journalism have distorted how we view Africa. This edition is produced and hosted by Anthony Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, Chris Masters talks to Monica Attard about the stunning victory he and Nick McKenzie had over Ben Roberts-Smith. In what was one of the biggest and most expensive defamation cases in recent memory we get Chris's insights and methods on taking down a myth. Produced by Anthony Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our first show of 2023 focused on AI. Four months later, we revisited this topic with the same guests, Dr. Sacha Molitorisz and Charlie Lewis. Since then, significant developments have occurred in the AI space, and our discussion this time addressed the challenges we now encounter with this emerging technology. Produce and hosted by Anthony Dockrill  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look at the latest report from Media Diversity Australia titled Online Saftey of Diverse Journalists. To discuss the report and the scale and also, the kinds of abuse diverse journalists are experiencing we spoke to Professor Bronwyn Carlson and Dr Faith Valencia-Forrester. Produced and hosted by Anthony Dockrill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak with Eric Beecher, the chairman and co-founder of Private Media which publishes Crikey. Monica Attard spoke to him about Lachlan Murdoch ceasing his defamation action against Crikey and what it means for Crikey and the Australian media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we turn our attention to the biggest defamation payout in US history. Fox News has this week agreed to pay 787 Million US dollars to Dominion which supplied voting machines to the 2020 presidential election. To discuss what this means we spoke to Paddy Manning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak with UTS Professor Wanning Sun about the recent Red Aert series in the SMH and the Age and how Chinese Australians consume the media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices