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Fourth Estate episodes

February 24, 2022 When is Someone’s Past in the Public Interest?
Is a photo from someone's formative years always fair game and what responsibility does the media have to protect someone's mental health? Tina Quinn speaks with Jacqueline Maley, a Columnist and Senior Writer at the Sydney Morning Herald and Age, Amy Remeikis a Political Reporter for The Guardian Australia, and Karen Percy Chair of Dart Centre Asia-Pacific, Non-Executive Director of the Walkley Foundation and Federal Media President of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
Content warning: This discussion includes references of trauma, sexual abuse and assault.
37 min
February 17, 2022 Taking the Polls of the Nation
This week on Fourth Estate, we dive into the world of opinion polling as a precursor to Australia's looming federal election. Toby Hemmings talks with Peter Lewis, Executive Director of Essential Media, and John Utting, Executive Director of Utting Research.

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32 min
February 10, 2022 Changing How We Cover Climate Change
This week, Prue Clarke talks with Julian Cribb, co-founder of the Council of Human Future and Kyle Pope, the editor of the Columbia Journalism Review about how to cover climate change as it happens right now.

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34 min
February 03, 2022 Joe Rogan and the Power of Podcasting
Fourth Estate returns to examine the allure of podcasting as a medium, why Joe Rogan is so popular and why every news organisation is trying to make their own version of The Daily. Hosted by Toby Hemmings with guests James Cridland, editor of Podnews and Siobhan McHugh, author of The Power of Podcasting.

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37 min
December 16, 2021 2021 In Review
This week, Toby Hemmings discusses the biggest stories of 2021 with Jacqueline Maley, columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Kishor Napier-Raman, federal politics reporter for Crikey and Rachel Baxendale, Victorian political reporter for The Australian.

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51 min
December 09, 2021 Is Cultural Criticism Dead?
This week on Fourth Estate, Toby Hemmings examines the state of Australian arts criticism with Michael Sun, editorial assistant at the Guardian, Lauren Carroll Harris, writer and curator, and Alison Croggon, arts editor at The Saturday Paper.

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41 min
December 02, 2021 In Conversation with Fran Kelly
As she hangs up the Breakfast mic for the final time, Fran Kelly sits down with Fourth Estate’s Tina Quinn, talking 17 years of RN Breakfast, her decades in broadcast and what lies ahead.

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44 min
November 25, 2021 A Top News Editor Transitions: In Conversation with Gina Chua
Last year's pandemic stopped many journalists in place. But for Gina Chua, it was an opportunity to go forward as her true self. Gina transitioned genders during lockdown in New York. Now, in her role as executive editor at Reuters, she sits down over Zoom with Prue Clarke to discuss her transition, her career as a media executive and the importance of representation in newsrooms.

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35 min
November 18, 2021 In Conversation With Lisa Davies
This week, Tina Quinn sits down with Lisa Davies as she finishes up an eventful five year tenure as Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.

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32 min
November 11, 2021 Keeping Community Newspapers Alive
COVID-19 impacted on regional newspapers, forcing many to shut. But regional communities still have a hunger for news and from these news deserts, the green shoots of community publications emerged. So after a long year of lockdowns, how are these publications faring? This week, Monica Attard speaks with Susanna Freymark, the editor of the Richmond River Independent and indynr.com and Matt Nicholls, the editor of the Cape York Weekly.

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39 min

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