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Zara Seidler: "For a long time, youth news has been deeply subjective"

Zara Seidler has taken The Daily Aus in a different direction from most youth news publishers: it’s straight-down-the-line, objective news. Zara, as…

Dec 2, 2022 •

25:17

October 2022

"Talk" supersedes podcasting: Spotify's Ben Watts on getting people to listen

Spotify’s Head of Studios ANZ Ben Watts has always been fixated on audio, whether music or spoken word, and now he’s bringing the two together at the…

Oct 10, 2022 •

27:48

September 2022

Taking the world one post at a time: Lucy Blakiston

Lucy Blakiston might be young (24), but she’s been publishing to big audiences for the best part of a decade. The force behind youth news brand Shit You…

Sep 5, 2022 •

28:13

August 2022

No advice, but plenty of help: Tim Griggs and the news mission

Tim Griggs is the force behind Blue Engine Collaborative, a company that has run accelerator programs all over the world helping businesses make digital…

Aug 23, 2022 •

24:36

Genevieve Jacobs on "cracking local"

Listen now | Genevieve Jacobs believes she and her company, Region Media, have cracked the secret to doing local publishing profitably. In this Crawford…

Aug 1, 2022 •

24:15

July 2022

How to make a buck while sticking to the mission: Dan Stinton

Listen now | Dan Stinton is the Managing Director of The Guardian in Australia and New Zealand and is forthright in this interview about the main thing…

Jul 4, 2022 •

30:48

June 2022

The Unwilled Writer Part 2

Students can now generate plausible essays for a less than a cent with the click of a button. How do teachers deal with that? Something has to change…

Jun 8, 2022 •

The Unwilled Writer

GPT-3, an AI which knows how to write - but not what it is writing - has had a profound impact on me. It feels like coming face to face with the English…

Jun 1, 2022 •

May 2022

Get bored, get brave: Tim Duggan on making ideas better

Journalist, entrepreneur and author Tim Duggan knows that everyone is creative, only they have some pretty messed up ideas about ideas. In his new book…

May 3, 2022 •

March 2022

Gideon Haigh on the longest form of journalism

If you’re a cricket fan, you will be familiar with Gideon Haigh’s writing, but that’s far from his only area of activity. Haigh has become a specialist…

Mar 31, 2022 •

Where fact and melody collide: Victor Vlam on news music

News music is not often discussed, but it is important in branding, grabbing attention, and setting an emotional atmosphere. Dutch journalist Victor…

Mar 15, 2022 •

Keep calm and make a plan: Sarah Bristow on news directing

Sarah Bristow is the News Director at Discovery in New Zealand: she's a powerful combination of directness and acute broadcast audience understanding.

Mar 8, 2022 •

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