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| TV's moguls learn the masses are revolting Matthew Ricketson |
| HERE is an idea for a pilot for a new reality television show: it's about a small coterie of powerful men who grew very rich because they held the only licences to the four television networks that became far and away Australia's most popular mass medium. Read more >>> |
| Converged newsrooms -- not even up for debate... World Editor's Forum |
| When it comes to large traditionally print media entities, the Washington Post has always been ahead of the curve on the web side. Washingtonpost.com’s executive editor Jim Brady’s presentation at the World Editor’s Forum in Moscow showed why. Brady told the audience what the Post had done, and what it was planning on doing, to ensure that its newsroom was steeped in the hi-tech art of convergence. Read more >>> |
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Matthew Ricketson, Media and Communications editor at The Age, talks about convergent and print journalism, its present and its future. What is convergent journalism and how will it impact on news organisations such as Fairfax? How will the new cross media ownership laws impact on the evolution of convergence within large scale media organisations?
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| Biography |
| Matthew Ricketson has worked on staff as a journalist at Standard News, The Age, The Australian, The Sunday Herald and Time Australia magazine.
Before taking up his position as Media and Communications editor of The Age in June 2006, he ran the Journalism program at RMIT for 11 years. He has a Master of Arts (communication studies) from RMIT and is writing a PhD about book-length journalism at Monash University. His biography of the Australian author Paul Jennings was published by Viking in 2000. He has written a textbook entitled Writing Feature Stories (Allen & Unwin) and has edited an anthology of journalism entitled The Best Australian Profiles (Black Inc). |
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