Google 4 Media Day

November 5, 2012 By 2 Comments
View from the sixth floor of Google HQ in Sydney

The view from the sixth floor cafe at Google HQ in Sydney is pretty damn good. Along with about 150 others, I participated today in a "Google 4 Media Day" held there which ended with a couple of glasses of wine. It was a lovely day in Sydney, with a nice breeze, and the perfect end to an interesting day. Organised by the Media Team at Google here in Sydney, there was an obvious PR element to the day, as we were encouraged to use Youtube, Google+, Hangouts, Earth and other Google products. But … [Read more...]

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Andrew Olle Media Lecture

November 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Andrew Olle Media Lecture - Cassie, James, Cath, Wendy

It was another of those regular "big nights" for me. The "Andrew Olle Media Lecture" is one of my favourite nights of the year, professionally-speaking. I get to dress up (in the same tux I've been wearing for several years), I get to do a bit of schmoozing, and I get to hear someone interesting talk about the state of the Australian media. According to this year's lecturer, Julian Morrow from "The Chaser", this was memorable as a year of comedy gaffes. He cited not only the "Make A … [Read more...]

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And Then There’s Ray…

October 17, 2008 By 4 Comments
Photograph with Ray Martin.

It was the end of a memorable night at The Andrew Olle Media Lecture, the annual cross-media shindig in Sydney. The lecture was delivered by Ray Martin whose central thesis was that good commercial television journalism is often supported by passionate media individuals, the likes of Murdoch and Packer. When media companies are run by banks and other financial institutions only looking at the bottom line, he argued demonstrably that journalism isn't well supported in the commercial … [Read more...]

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Two Good Nights

October 20, 2007 By 1 Comment
Bentley Bar

It's lunchtime Saturday and I've just finished listening back to last night's Andrew Olle Media Lecture, which I really enjoyed. Last night's lecture was given by News Limited CEO, John Hartigan, who carried on a theme earlier expressed by Lachlan Murdoch that good journalism and good business aren't mutually exclusive. In expressing the view the digital age hadn't "dumbed down" journalism, but had raised the bar significantly, he did however state a concern that younger journalists, these days, … [Read more...]

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September 11, 2006

September 12, 2006 By Leave a Comment

I remember vividly the night of the attacks. Damien and I were watching the late night news when, all of a sudden newsreader, Sandra Sulley, with an odd and confused look on her face, announced they were crossing immediately to CNN. Over the next few hours, we sat and watched, drank some wine, and for just a brief moment, as the attacks spread beyond the Twin Towers, felt a moment of fear, suspecting an attack on inner-city Sydney couldn't be that far away. Five years later, it's September 12 … [Read more...]

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Public Service Broadcasting

August 10, 2006 By Leave a Comment

As it's been a long time since I've attended a university lecture, tutorial or seminar, I guess I'd forgotten the importance in academic cricles of reviewing literature and locating discussions within a theoretical framework, but today it all came flooding back. At the end of a rather interesting day at work, I went to a seminar led by Dr Georgina Born from Cambridge University entitled, "Digitising Democracy: Digitisation, Pluralism, and Public Service Communications". Her paper canvassed … [Read more...]

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