Fourth Estate

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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ACCC has just released 619-page report on the power and impact of digital platforms on Australian media. To help us make sense of the report but to also see what it could mean for our media we have a special in-depth discussion with the chairman of the ACCC, Rod Sims.

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The media and the world seem trapped in a binary world of heroes and villains - why is that and can we break free? This week's heroes and villains include a look at press freedom, George Columbaris on the Good Weekend cover, Channel Nine and the ABC wreck their brands on conspiracy theories, Facebook and yes Julian Assange. To discuss this and much more our host Peter Fray chatted with Sarah Elks, Simon Crerar, and Wilson Da Silva.

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This week we examine how US publications downplayed Jean Carroll's allegation against Trump and how we've become desensitised to #MeToo statements, how criticising Trump cost Sir Kim Darroch his title as UK Ambassador, and Amal Clooney's criticism of raids on the ABC.

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This week we look at the latest revelation about AFP accessing journalists metadata, Facebook and defamation and we also talk about is a lack of diversity in the media hurting the media's ability to speak to all Australians. To discuss all of this we are joined by Antoinette Lattouf from Ch10, Emily Watkins from Crikey and Ricky Sutton CEO of Oovvuu

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This week we talk to News.com.au's Editor in Chief Kate de Brito. Peter Fray asked her to spill the beans on how News.com.au came to be the countries number one news website and about her path to the world of journalism.

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