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

Episode 6: Government secrets, 82 laws, less Press Freedom.

Episode 5: How much freedom do we want journalists to have in the future? More or less than they have now? There is a perpetual tug-o-war between publishers and journalists, and governments, and the courts - and to a lesser extent the rest of us who witness the media’s successes and transgressions.

Episode 4: We explore the case ‘for’ Google and Facebook paying publishers for their content. We also explore the voluntary certification of journalists and the partisan battle between News Ltd and the ABC. Peter Wilkinson interviews Greg Hywood who was CEO of Fairfax Media during controversial journalist redundancies and then the merger with the Nine television network.

Episode 3: Alan Soon, Co-Founder of Splice Media, is the energy and intellect behind the digital news revolution across much of Asia. Described as the Nieman Lab of Asia, Splice transforms media start-ups through events, consulting, training, funding, reporting, research and more. If anyone has an eye for how to create media diversity in the future, it's Alan Soon.

Episode 2: The #FutureofJournalism series explores what journalism might look like in the decades ahead. After all, if we don’t know where we are heading, how can we create a pathway to get there?

Piers Grove is best known as the publisher of the satirical Betoota Advocate. He also publishes The Daily Aus.

In this second interview in the series, Grove sees the younger audience deserting the current publishers which are weighed down by legacy issues, and the emergence of new niche publications catering for specific audiences, possibly coming and going dynamically as the audience, used to change, finds new ways of sourcing information. He is also against the current moves by the ACCC to force the digital giants, Google and Facebook, to pay publishers for content.

#journalist #auspol #ABC (The #FutureofJournalism fortnightly interviews are created by The Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom.)

Episode 1: What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to #journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve seen in the last twenty.

The #FutureofJournalism series will explore our options.

If we don’t know where we are heading, how can we create a pathway to get there? The Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom, in this series, interviews leading thinkers on this from around the world.

Gaven Morris has been the ABC’s Director of News, Analysis & Investigations for five of possibly its most disrupted years, in which he has overseen the closure of a number programs and the creation of a digital news website that is now the most read in Australia. #journalist #auspol #ABC