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Fourth Estate

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Every week, we discuss how the media has covered the news and analyse issues affecting the industry - with some of the biggest names in journalism in Australia and around the world. Broadcast live on Sydney's 2SER 107.3FM, with the financial assistance of the Community Broadcasting Foundation.

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In Conversation with the Saturday Paper's Erik Jensen 20.06.2019 36:41

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

Are Australians Turning Their Back On The News? 13.06.2019 37:14

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...

Press Freedom Under Threat 06.06.2019 43:26

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

Brexit, Reporting on the DRC and Assange 30.05.2019 40:40

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

Fact Checking The Election 23.05.2019 39:12

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...

Podcast Extra - David Marr in Conversation 16.05.2019 30:21

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

Subjectivity, Truth And A Mother of Invention 16.05.2019 31:31

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

Podcast Extra - Reporting on China 14.05.2019 31:30

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

Bill Adair on PolitiFact 09.05.2019 31:33

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

Introducing Uniform- A new season of All Things Equal 09.05.2019 2:24

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...

Andrew Jaspan In Conversation 03.05.2019 39:23

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

Stephen Davis - Truthteller 24.04.2019 38:07

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

Podcast Extra - Marcus Strom On Press Freedom and Assange 18.04.2019 19:23

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

Geoffrey Rush and Australian Defamation Law 15.04.2019 27:44

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...

Bill Birnbauer - The rise of nonprofit investigative journalism in the United States, 11.04.2019 41:12

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

Reporting on Xinjiang - Buzzfeed's Megha Rajagopalan 04.04.2019 33:15

The Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang region of Western China are the subject of an intense crackdown by the state, with up to one million Uyghur people being held without charge in so-called "re-education" camps. The crisis presents a unique set of challenges for journalists reporting on human rights in the 21st century. Producer Cheyne Anderson speaks to Buzzfeed News world correspondent Megha Raj...

Christchurch, Facebook And Our Newsrooms 21.03.2019 31:58

This week we unpack how the Christchurch terror attack was covered in Australian media, and overseas. We spoke to journalist Jennine Khalik , Abdallah Kamal from SBS and Associate Professor Colleen Murrell from Swinburne University of Technology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Evershed and Ben McNeil talk AI, Facts and the Future of Journalism 19.03.2019 35:38

Special edition with the Guardian's Nick Evershed and Metafact's Ben McNeil about their work and future of Journalism in AI and fake news world. Metafact has a Kickstarter and if you want to help out go here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/metafact/metafact-fact-checking-powered-by-science?ref=e1at7u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gaven Morris - Your ABC 14.03.2019 40:13

The week Peter Fray speaks with Gaven Morris, ABC’s Director News, Analysis & Investigations, about an eventful year and the way forward for the ABC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IWD Special - Annick Cojean 07.03.2019 29:35

This week we speak with Annick Cojean who is a special correspondent from Le Monde. She is joined by 2SER's Cheyne Anderson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pell, Ita, Defamation and PTSD 28.02.2019 50:03

This week with are joined by Matt Peacock, Margot Saville, Deirdre Macken and Anne Davies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Medivac, Friendless Facebook and EMMA 21.02.2019 42:18

Joining us this week we have Emily Watkins from Crikey, Nick O'Malley from Nine Entertainment and Andrew Rule from Herald Sun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crikey! Jobs For Journalists 14.02.2019 33:15

We talk to Eric Beecher, Chairman and Editor in Chief for Private Media, about 11 news jobs for "inquiry" journalists at Crikey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Buzzfeed, Ford, Transgender and Building Trust 07.02.2019 41:14

First show for 2019 - Peter Fray is joined by a blockbuster panel of editors; Lenore Taylor, Joanne Gray and Helen Trinca. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Carlton - On Air 24.12.2018 37:15

We chat to Mike Carlton about his new Autobiography - On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices