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Our 2010 course schedule is available now for further information please view our course PDF, email acij@uts.edu.au or call 9514 2488.
The future of journalism research in Australia: Addressing the 2010 ERA round
If you are an academic, a researcher or a staffer involved in journalism (1903) research, you need to attend this one day conference. It will provide a detailed briefing by the Australian Research Council on how ERA will impact on you and your university. There will be opportunities to ask questions, consider how other researchers are faring and discuss an agreed research strategy.
Date: Friday 19.2.2010
Location: University of Technology, Sydney
Conference manager: Jan McClelland Ph: 2 9514 2295 ACIJ
Fee: $100
For more details, registration and draft program.
GEJI Teachers Seminar held in Sydney Nov 2009
GEJI, the Global Environmental Journalism Initiative, formed in 2008 by leaders in journalism education in Australian and European universities, has just held a three day seminar in Sydney.
Academics from the nine institutions met to discuss the progress of GEJI twelve months on and to collaborate on the teaching and learning of journalism and environmental sustainability.
The three year GEJI program is jointly funded by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, and the European Commission. It aims to build an international research network, for global environmental journalism, including student exchanges between the partner universities.
The seminar was organised by the ACIJ, which assists in the administration of the program in Australia. The seminar was run with the support of the UTS Civil & Cosmopolitan Societies centre.
GEJI students to cover UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Dec 2009 - news site www.gejiweb.org
Students from Europe, America, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia will work as a news room during the COP15 summit in December. For their reports, see gejiweb.org. These students are at the Danish School of Media & Journalism; many of the Australian students are supported by a GEJI scholarship.
ACIJ delivers training to Chinese media executives and journalists
ACIJ has just completed training two separate media groups from China. Consisting of a total of forty-seven representatives from a range of magazines, newspapers and publications from Shanghai, Beijing and provinces, the eight day intense media course is designed to educate the delegates on commercial issues and digital and print integration. Talks from media analysts, marketing managers, editors and others combined with visits to a number of media organisations enable the delegates to speak to and hear from industry leaders.
Shanghai group
between industry visits at Clontarf Park Sydney
The involvement of industry and the support provided by industry leaders and media organisations has helped ACIJ deliver exceptional courses to Chinese delegates since 2006. ACIJ would like to acknowledge and thank them for their level of involvement and support over the years.
Trauma, environmental journalism, health reporting and te teo Maori in new Pacific Journalism Review
By the Pacific Media Centre news desk
AUCKLAND (Pacific Scoop/Pacific Media Watch): Trauma and exiled writers, the challenge of environmental journalism in Delta land, issues of editorial 'slant' in health reporting and use of te reo Maori in newspapers are some of the topics featured in the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review.
The October edition is a special 'Public right to know' joint issue published by the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism and AUT University's Pacific Media Centre. More information about the edition.
Pacific Journalism Review can be ordered on the PJR website: www.pjreview.info or through the ACIJ. Order a book at $A17.00 or subscribe to the series.
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Reportage is now multi-media
Reportage online has had a face-lift! There are heaps of exciting new categories (including opinion, reviews, sport, travel and multimedia) and loads of new content. So subscribe to the RSS, have a look around, check out some of the fantastic content that's up there already.
'East Timor - the Balibo incident in perspective' - written 20 years after Balibo - purchase through ACIJ
In 1995, the ACIJ published 'East Timor - the Balibo incident in perspective' by James Dunn. This small book, written 20 years after the invasion of East Timor, details the international setting at the time of the invasion by Indonesia, the media involvement and the aftermath of the killing of the five western journalists at Balibo. For more information and to purchase this book.
James Dunn was the Australian consul in Portugese East Timor in the sixties, was sent by the Whitlam government in 1974 on a fact finding mission to East Timor following Portugal's announcement of a process of self-determination, led a humanitarian aid mission to East Timor in 1975, and authored the 1983 book, 'Timor: A People Betrayed'.
'Shooting Balibo' - East Timor - Tony Maniaty
In 1975, on his first overseas posting as a reporter, Tony Maniaty, was sent to the Portugese colony of East Timor. What he experienced and witnessed in the invasion of East Timor by Indonesia, including meeting the journalists we now know as the 'Balibo Five', has haunted him. Last year, Tony decided to go back to East Timor to accompany the cast and crew of the film Balibo. This journey and his recollections are now recorded in a book, 'Shooting Balibo: blood and memory in East Timor'.
Shooting Balibo
They say we've only got one war in us, and my days in Timor in 1975 were enough to teach me many things, not least that experience in the house of conflict is expanded, and that the exhilaration of war, once felt, can never be replicated in everyday life; that risk goes hand in hand with raw beauty; that life is never so intense as it is, or was, in that compression of life called war...
Tony Maniaty was the Director of the ACIJ in 2008. He teaches International Journalism at UTS.
Read his views on war reporting on ABC Unleashed.
Shooting Balibo (Penguin) is available at all good bookshops. ISBN 97806700735080
For more information, see Tony Maniaty.
2009 Seminars
Throughout the year, ACIJ will host forums and seminars to promote discussion and debate on issues surrounding journalism, media and the public right to know. These forums are open to students, people from industry, academics and the public. Join our email mailing list to be advised about these events.
Information about seminars hosted by the ACIJ over the last two years is available at News.
Mark Schapiro launches the Global Environmental Journalism Initiative at UTS
ACIJ Director, Wendy Bacon,
opening the launch of the
Global Environmental
Journalism Initiative
A world-first partnership between universities in Europe and Australia to enhance the media's capacity to report the world's environmental challenges was launched at UTS early 2009. In launching the Global Environmental Journalism Initiative (GEJI), visiting US investigative journalist and author Mark Schapiro said journalists were being challenged to bring a global perspective to what were inherently local issues. "There are kids in LA being affected by pollution blown across the Pacific from China," he said. "An initiative like this fosters the ability of investigative journalists to exchange information and to track money and power across international boundaries." For more information about the launch.
GEJI involves influential journalism schools at four Australian and five European universities. The universities are collaborating to develop a new international educational program in journalism including student exchanges, online student collaboration and story development, and research on how the media covers environmental issues.The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) and the European Commission are funding the student exchanges and the institutional collaboration that are a significant part of the project.
The Global Environmental Journalism Initiative (GEJI) aims to prepare future journalists to better report on increasingly relevant global environmental issues. Participating students are funded $8500 each to enable them to study a semester overseas. For more information about the initiative and the funding it attracts, see GEJI.
Mark's visit to Australia was hosted by the Walkley Foundation for Excellence in Journalism.
GEJI Survey of Plastic Shopping Bags - London, Hong Kong & Australia
Journalism students from the University of Technology (UTS), Sydney, City University in London, Monash University in Melbourne and Hong Kong Baptist University in Hong Kong collaborated in producing a major report about plastic bag use, observing more than 6500 supermarkets shoppers in Australia, London and Hong Kong.
For the survey results and more GEJI related stories, see Journalism Education - News & Environment.
