[Mediapolitics] Fwd: Radio National's Media Specialist Newsletter 21 October - 28 October 2004

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>Radio National's Media Specialist Newsletter  21 October - 28 October 2004
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>Defamation
>(Media Report: 19/10/2004)
>URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/stories/s1223096.htm
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>Why is it that the unbelievable can be justified while, at other times, 
>the truth is not always an adequate defence? Proposed changes to 
>defamation law on the Media Report.
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>Indigenous Media
>(Lifelong RN: 23/10/2004)
>URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/learning/lifelong/stories/s1170324.htm
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>How has the indigenous press responded to the treatment of indigenous 
>issues in the mainstream press? Dr Shelley Fisher-Fishkin, Director of 
>American Studies at Stanford, takes us through the history of the Black 
>Press in the USA. Closer to home, we look at PINA ­ The Pacific Islands 
>News Association; serving the Pacific Islands News Media ­ and how they’ve 
>trained their own people to report the stories which matter to them. This 
>program also discusses Indigenous media in Australia, from the first 
>magazine publication in the 1930s to the present day NIMS ­ the National 
>Indigenous News Service, which broadcasts out of Brisbane.
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>Does CRC R&D Spell PR?
>(Ockham's Razor: 24/10/2004)
>URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1224807.htm
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>Science Communicator Dr Rob Morrison from Adelaide argues that science 
>needs good communicators whose work can be trusted, not those who 
>sensationalise and give false hope.
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>Emergency services to improve communications with media
>(News Online: 18/10/2004)
>URL: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1222493.htm
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>A new agreement between the ACT's Emergency Services Authority and the 
>local media is to keep the public on top of events in an emergency.
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>Telstra broadband growth ahead of schedule
>(News Online: 18/10/2004)
>URL: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1222382.htm
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>Australian uptake of broadband Internet has exceeded expectations, with 
>Telstra announcing its one millionth broadband customer a year ahead of 
>schedule.
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>Adelaide's new newspaper
>(The National Interest: 17/10/2004)
>URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/natint/stories/s1221769.htm
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>A new Sunday newspaper in Adelaide is seeking to exploit gaps in the 
>market left unfilled by the monopoly of Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd.
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>Iraqi photographer shot dead in Iraq
>(News Online: 16/10/2004)
>URL: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1221590.htm
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>An Iraqi press photographer working for a European agency was shot dead 
>outside his home in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the second Iraqi 
>journalist to be murdered in Iraq in the past week, media rights group 
>Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Saturday.
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>Photojournalism
>(Lifelong RN: 16/10/2004)
>URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/learning/lifelong/stories/s1174637.htm
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>Taking photos and capturing images digitally are two very different 
>experiences for photojournalists. Taking photos involves the magic of 
>seeing the image emerge on paper in the darkroom, but capturing an image 
>digitally provides versatility with rapidly approaching deadlines. Along 
>with the ease of working digitally, there are layers of ethical dilemmas 
>for photojournalists and their editors. Do you leave the unpalatable bits 
>in, or truly bear witness? And, the fact is, just about everyone has a 
>digital-camera; even soldiers take photos and publish them. Where does 
>this leave room for the craft of documenting a story with pictures?
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>James says media underrates 'ordinary' PM
>(News Online: 15/10/2004)
>URL: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1220847.htm
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>Australian author and broadcaster Clive James says the Australian media 
>has continually underestimated the appeal of Prime Minister John Howard.
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>Faulty Filter
>(Media Report: 14/10/2004)
>URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/stories/s1218518.htm
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>For months political commentators - in all branches of the media - pointed 
>to a tight electoral race and a possible change of government, but nobody 
>seems to have told the voters. When did the medium stop being the 
>(accurate) message?
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