Future of Journalism – a series by the Alliance for Journalists' Freedom

Does it matter that the Murdoch press is seen as right and the ABC left-wing?

Two journalists were awarded the #NobelPeacePrize in October, for what the Committee called their courageous work standing up for the craft in a world in which democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions. 

Now, you might say “So what?” Why give the award to Maria Ressa in the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov in Russia, and that it would be better going to, for instance, the people who discovered the vaccines for COVID, or one of the champions of climate change? Here Dr. Julie Posetti argues the case for journalism. Based in Oxford, she is the Global Director of Research at the Washington based International Centre for Journalists.  

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Its possibilities are tantalising! The Pandora Papers, just published, boasting 600 journalists across 130 publications, exposing global financial secrets and tax evasion until now hidden from authorities.

Is the media too powerful and too invasive? Do those who work to keep the powerful in check, really need to check themselves? And does the pursuit of tears by television journalists demean both journalism and the talent?   

These are questions UK journalist John Lloyd, with five decades of journalism, editing and book writing under his belt, wrestles with. In 2004 he published 'What the Media Are Doing to Our Politics' and in 2017 'The Power and the Story'. In 2006 he co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. More recently, John joined the International Advisory Council at the Judith Nielsen Institute for Journalism and Ideas.   

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Journalism connects people within their communities. Correct? Or, is that only part of the picture now, and less so in future? Perhaps, with the internet, journalism is now just one way people now connect in communities, and that’s what this episode is about.

In Canada, Farhan Mohamed’s passion is making communities better. And he believes the future of journalism is a part of a jigsaw of ways people connect.

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Jim Kennedy in New York has made a career of future thinking. He’s been leading strategic planning for AP, The Associated Press,  the world’s largest news organization, since 2001.

Before his current role was executive director of product planning for the digital site at the Wall Street Journal.

Now, besides his current role he’s a founding member of the Online News Association, a current board member of Digital Content Next and an advisory board member of Matter Ventures, a media startup accelerator.

With that depth of experience, we talk about the future, and the opportunities the traditional publishers have missed and the concept of ongoing training for journalists.

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Episode 10: A voluntary certification program for journalists has taken a major step forward with a collaboration by The Ethics Centre and the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom to develop the proposal. This is a major next step following the AJF proposing such a scheme in November last year. 

On this World Press Freedom Day, we invite conversation from our peers, journalists, lawyers, politicians and others about developing such a scheme.  

Here, Dr Simon Longstaff, Executive Director of The Ethics Centre and Peter Wilkinson, Chair of the AJF, discuss the future of journalism, certification, and the proposed Media Freedom Act.   

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Episode 9: Learning from history.

Episode 8: The birth of a new kind of information driven journalism.

I’m Peter Wilkinson and The Future of Journalism is a series presented by the Alliance for journalists’ Freedom in Australia, exploring where journalism should be heading.

Nabiha Syed is at the forefront of strengthening journalism by better harvesting the information on the internet. Forbes magazine called her "one of the best emerging free speech lawyers". In 2016, she was named as a "40 Under 40 Rising Star" by the New York Law Journal. Prior to a stint on BuzzFeed, she was the First Amendment Fellow at The New York Times. Nabiha is now president of a New York organisation called The Markup. The Markup describes itself as a new kind of media organisation, staffed with quantitative journalists who pursue data-driven investigations.

Episode 7: Less destructive, more constructive news.