Fourth Estate

This week we chat with Sally Young about her new book, Paper Emperors, the Rise of Australian's Newspaper Empires. Her book looks at the birth of Australia's major newspapers and the people who ran them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we chat with the director of the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism & Ideas, Mark Ryan. Peter Fray chatted with him about his time working for Paul Keating and how the Judith Neilson Institute will support journalism and the media in Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our second look at the ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry, we dig deeper into what it may mean for the Australian media. To help us do this we chat with Derek Wilding, the Co-Director for the Centre for Media Transition at UTS and Sacha Molitorisz Directorial Research fellow also from the CMT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ACCC has just released 619-page report on the power and impact of digital platforms on Australian media. To help us make sense of the report but to also see what it could mean for our media we have a special in-depth discussion with the chairman of the ACCC, Rod Sims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The media and the world seem trapped in a binary world of heroes and villains - why is that and can we break free? This week's heroes and villains include a look at press freedom, George Columbaris on the Good Weekend cover, Channel Nine and the ABC wreck their brands on conspiracy theories, Facebook and yes Julian Assange. To discuss this and much more our host Peter Fray chatted with Sarah Elks,...

This week we examine how US publications downplayed Jean Carroll's allegation against Trump and how we've become desensitised to #MeToo statements, how criticising Trump cost Sir Kim Darroch his title as UK Ambassador, and Amal Clooney's criticism of raids on the ABC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look at the latest revelation about AFP accessing journalists metadata, Facebook and defamation and we also talk about is a lack of diversity in the media hurting the media's ability to speak to all Australians. To discuss all of this we are joined by Antoinette Lattouf from Ch10, Emily Watkins from Crikey and Ricky Sutton CEO of Oovvuu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

This week we talk to News.com.au's Editor in Chief Kate de Brito. Peter Fray asked her to spill the beans on how News.com.au came to be the countries number one news website and about her path to the world of journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special interview Peter Fray talks to Peter Greste about the continuing fight for securing a free press in Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak with Professor David Rolph from the University of Sydney and Quentin Dempster from the New Daily about ABC, NewsCorp and Nine joining together to fight for the freedom of the press. We also look at the defamation case involving Dylan Voller and also the latest move in click bait journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we dive deep with Erik Jensen, the editor-in-chief of the Saturday Paper, talking about his career, being shot, hate speech and the future of journalism. Oh, and what a waste of money polling is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak to Caroline Fisher from the University of Canberra, the project leader for the Australian section of the Digital News Report, the global survey of news consumers from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. The study has number of interesting and perplexing findings for the state of the media in Australia and around the world. Learn more about you...

This week we look in detail at the two raids by AFP on the ABC and News Corp journalist, Annika Smethurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we turn our gaze overseas and ask an expert panel what has been happening with Brexit and how does Australia view the world. We speak with Jamie Smyth from Financial Times, Jonathan Pearlman from Australian Foreign Affairs and Chrisanthi Giotis from Centre for Media Transition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have an expert panel of Fact Checkers and we ask them just how toxic was the election and should we chuck our opinion polls in the bin. To help us with this and much more we spoke to Lucinda Beaman from RMIT ABC Fact Check, Anne Kruger Editor of First Draft News and Michael Hopkin acting Editor of Fact Check at the Conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

David Marr talks to 2SER's Daniel Butler about Australia and why we find it difficult to change as country. He also talks about his life in writing and journalism and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look at how the media has covered the election and is News Corporation suffering from political bias? Our panel this week comprises of Kylar Loussikian from SMH and the Age, Emily Watkins from Crikey and Brad Esposito from Pedestrian Daily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From 2SER's the Middle we talk about media coverage of China, with the journalists who report on it. What are the realities of reporting from China, and does Australia's media get it right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak with Bill Adair who is the founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact and Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University. Peter Fray chatted with Bill about how you make facts count and can you actually keep our leaders honest in real time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Waiting for your next Fourth Estate fix? We’ve got something else for you in the meantime. Introducing a new season of All Things Equal. This series will take you into the school yard and beyond, where kids learn that things aren't always fair. Through the stories of real students and staff, Uniform will change the way you think about education; because when it comes to learning, one size does not...

This week we speak to Andrew Jaspan about the media's coverage of the election and why Google and Facebook should help pay for our media. We also touch on how he started the Conversation and its importance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak to Stephen Davis about his new book Truthteller and the very real dangers of fake news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We speak with the President of the MEAA, Marcus Strom, about press freedom and why we should be concerned about Julian Assange Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Australian media has recently been on the wrong side of a number of high profile defamations cases and last week one of the largest again went against the media - The Daily Telegraph and its case against Australian actor Geoffrey Rush. This case raises a number of very significant issues for the news media and in turn the Me Too movement in this country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

We chat with Bill Birnauer, who is a long-time ICIJ member with more than 30 years’ experience in journalism at The Age, The Sunday Age and The Herald. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices