Sydney, August 9-12: "What's the story? Powerful narrative and other tales from the future"
For some time now we’ve been hearing about the crisis in the media industry. That’s old news. Isn’t it time we asked what comes next? The Walkley Media Conference will examine the tools and skills you need to thrive in the changing media landscape. As well as masterclasses and specialist training, the conference will discuss the lasting power of narrative in our industry as it moves into a new and uncertain – but exciting – digital era.
We intend to lead a discussion that will help journalists and journalism survive and thrive in this new media landscape. But we also want to foster and maintain the narrative skills of Australian journalists and their stories in the plethora of traditional and new media platforms. We want this diverse and talented group of people to share secrets of making their stories sing and sell. We want to discuss new ways to maintain and enhance our traditional standards, while we learn to carve ourselves a viable marketplace in this urgent era.
It’s going to be a feast of ideas from August 9-12, with workshops, masterclasses, discussions and international keynotes. The conference will appeal broadly to media creators, presenting a program that links artists, authors, journalists, online media-creators, screen-writers, film-makers and others around story-telling and defining new media for ourselves.
The conference will also include a day dedicated to freelance journalists, with discussions and workshops tailored specifically for freelance needs of varying experience levels.
For more details head to walkleyconference.com.au, and download a PDF program here.
Confirmed speakers include:
- John Nichols, Washington correspondent, The Nation (US)
- Jay Rosen, New York University (US)
- Bob Dotson, national correspondent for NBC’s Today (US)
- Harry Dugmore, chair of Media & Mobile Communications at the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhode University (South Africa)
- Heather Allan, head of newsgathering for Al Jazeera English
- James Bradley, author
- Anna Broinowski, Walkley-winning film-maker
- Annabel Crabb, Walkley-winning journalist
- Sophie Cunningham, editor, Meanjin
- Mark Dapin, author and columnist
- Angelos Frangopoulos, CEO, Sky News
- James Kirby, managing editor, The Eureka Report
- Malcolm Knox, Walkley-winning journalist and author
- David Leser, journalist and author
- Tony Maniaty, journalist and author
- Chris Masters, Walkley-winning investigative journalist and author
- Gaven Morris, national editor of continuous news, ABC
- Laurie Oakes, senior political journalist
- Kerry O'Brien, The 7.30 Report
- Julie Posetti, social media specialist
- Alice Pung, author
- Stephen Romei, editor, The Australian Literary Review
- Mark Scott, managing director, ABC
- Karim Temsamani, general manager, Google Australia & New Zealand
- James Tuckerman, editor, Australian Anthill
- Malcolm Turnbull, member for Wentworth
- Lawrie Zion, journalism co-ordinator, La Trobe
