Movers
& shakers
Speeches
and papers on media issues
Technology? It’s about people, too
ABC MD Mark Scott, at the Melbourne Press Club, Feb 11, 2010
Full speech (pdf)
Does journalism exist?
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger's Hugh Cudlipp lecture, Jan 25, 2010
Full text & video links
Andrew Olle media lecture 2009
Julian Morrow (The Chaser), November 7, 2009 (Click here for The Chaser page, mirrored here on our server)
Why public broadcasting matters more than ever
ABC MD Mark Scott, partially in response to the Murdoch lecture, below. Sept 9. 2009
click (pdf)
The absence of trust
James Murdoch’s MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Aug 28, 2009
click
Andrew Olle media lecture 2008
Ray Martin, TV journalist/compere, on TV journalism, media owners and the internet, October 2008. Click here for the ABC link (mirrored here as a PDF)
How should the public service handle FOI? (posted 2008)
Lynnelle Briggs, Public Service Commissioner, on handling FOI: We gained an insight into how the media might report Cabinet papers if releasable under FOI with the recent petrol price-watch policy. The media reported that four key departments had recommended against the Government’s policy; the reported implication being that the Government had acted – foolishly – against the advice of the public service, and that there was disconnect between the new government and its public service advisors.
This reflects a misunderstanding about our system of government…
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ABC shares 2020 vision (posted 2008)
ABC Managing Director Mark Scott recently released a paper on where the corporation sees itself heading over coming years.
“The ABC, with its 75 year history of providing reliable news and information, and quality Australian programming to Australian audiences, is uniquely placed to deliver more content on more platforms in the digital age,” Mr Scott said.
“As audiences fragment, and choices multiply, Australians will be looking towards the trusted ABC brand to continue to deliver reliable, quality Australian content.”
Part of the vision includes 6 TV stations and at least 15 radio outlets.
Click here to see the full document
Avoid representing the scourges (posted 2008)
The Pope, on the Feast of St Francis de Sales: “The media must avoid becoming spokesmen for economic materialism and ethical relativism, true scourges of our time. Instead, they can and must contribute to making known the truth about humanity, and defending it against those who tend to deny or destroy it. One might even say that seeking and presenting the truth about humanity constitutes the highest vocation of social communication.”
(Note: de Sales is regarded as the patron saint of journalism)
Full text at the Vatican (also mirrored here)
Hamlet’s Blackberry: why paper is eternal (posted 2007, written 2006)
William Powers, a media critic at the National Journal in the USA some time ago contributed to the ongoing discussion over the future of paper publishing with this interesting piece.
It says, in part: “Though paper appears to be a relatively “dumb” medium, it…performs tasks that require special abilities. And many of paper’s tricks, the useful purposes it serves, are…products of its long relationship with people. There are cognitive, cultural and social dimensions to the human-paper dynamic that come into play every time any kind of paper, from a tiny Post-it note to a groaning Sunday newspaper, is used to convey, retrieve or store information. Paper does these jobs in a way that pleases us, which is why, for centuries, we have liked having it around.”
See it at this link (also mirrored here)
The Andrew Olle Lecture 2007
John Hartigan, CEO News Limited, on journalism, October 2007. Click here for the ABC link (mirrored here as a PDF)
ABC editorial policy
The role of the ABC Director Editorial Policies, Paul Chadwick, September 2007. Click here (PDF)
The future of the world wide web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (regarded as the ‘father’ of the web) to the US House of Representatives, March 2007. Click here
Why writing matters
Louise Adler, Melbourne University Publishing – 2007 Redmond Barry Lecture for the State Library of Victoria, Australia. Click here (State Library site) for podcast & transcript. (mirrored here as a PDF)
Protecting and strengthening media in a time of great change
Speech by ABC head Mark Scott, and the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association conference -- August 2007. Click here (PDF)
Content is king
Essay by Bill Gates, that is of historical interest – January 1996 (loaded 2007). Click here
The future digital economy
Donald Johnston, Secretary General of the OECD – January 2006 (loaded 2007). Click here (PDF)
Media demands too much
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair on the demands of public life – June 2007. Click here (PDF)
Australia’s Right To Know campaign
Inaugural statement (April 2007). Click here
Navigating the media divide
IBM paper on the challenges for publishers, February 2007. Click here (PDF)
Fairfax and digital publishing
CEO David Kirk’s address to the National Press Club, October 2006. Click here (PDF)
The Andrew Olle Lecture 2006
Senator Helen Coonan, Communications Minister, on media, November 2006. Click here for the ABC link (Mirrored here as a PDF)
The ABC's new editorial policies
Mr Mark Scott -- Managing Director, ABC, Sydney Institute, October 2006. Click here
Australia’s changing communications & media landscape
Speech by ACCC head Graeme Samuel for La Trobe University, August 2006. Click here (PDF)
Foreign affairs and the media
Speech by Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to an Australian newspaper publisher's conference, August 2006. Click here
On media -- speech to the Media Alliance Public Affairs convention
Andrew Maiden – Telstra, August 2006. Click here
How the world's newspapers faired in 2005
A report from the World Association of Newspapers, June 2006. Click here
Why open access to the internet is important
Speech by USA Federal Communications Commisssioner Michael Copps, April 2006. Click here
Between the lines: New powers and accountability for police and the media
Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty, March 2006. Click here
Meeting the Digital Challenge: Reforming Australia’s media in the digital age
Media policy speech by Senator Helen Coonan, March 2006. Click here
Introduction
of digital radio in Australia
Senator Helen Coonan speech, October 14, 2005, Sydney. Click
here
The
Andrew Olle Lecture 2005
Presented by John Doyle for ABC Radio,
Sydney, October 7. Click here
The
New Multimedia World
Address by Senator Helen Coonan -- Minister
for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts -- to the National Press
Club, Canberra, August 31, 2005. Click
here
Why
our media regulations need revision
Speech by ACCC Chairman Graeme
Samuel at the Melbourne Press Club Journalism Conference August 26, 2005. Click
here
The
Media: Public Interest and Common Good
Lecture delivered at Lambeth
Palace by Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, June 15, 2005. Click
here
The
challenges faced by traditional media in an online world
Speech
by Rupert Murdoch to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 13, 2005. Click here
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