It usually goes one or two ways when my career response to people is to be a newspaper journalist; “That’s awesome. Good job.” Or, “Why? Newspapers aren’t even going to be around in the future.” The second response, to no surprise, always leads to a heated discussion. Regardless of what the future brings, and contrary(…)

We all know unions are unAustralian. Unaustralian? UnAustralian? un-Australian! That’s more like it. Hang on, at the beginning of a sentence it should be Un-Australian, except in this instance it’s not. un-Australian! Bugger. We all know that just like homophobes, poofters, terrorists, racists, families, churches, Halal Certified party pies and the Irish; unions are un-Australian(…)

Before starting my course in journalism, I started to work at a local radio station as a radio presenter. After eight weeks of working on radio, I have found that it is one of the best jobs i have ever had and it is such a good learning experience which i am sure will come(…)

Hey all I have not long started my diploma in Journalism and so far i am absolutely loving it. I decided to learn Journalism. I have to say since i have started, i have absolutely been hooked, Finally i have found that passion for something and when you have passion for something, You find the(…)

Finding a story is one thing, but when you are asked to approach someone you don’t know to see if there’s a story of interest there, that’s altogether another thing. Okay, everyone as a story! Yes, that’s true but where was I going to get that story? Easy, so I thought, and it usually is(…)

A few weeks before the last elections I went to a local protest rally endorsed by GetUp. I thought it would be an excellent opportunity to get a story for Newsbytes. I arrived early about 7.30 am. There were a handful of people already starting to roll in mainly older people wearing hospital gear in(…)

  Journalists often complain about bloated government departments, but major organisational change can be difficult to instigate and even harder to implement. Why not start small? After all we’re only student journalists. How about bloated government PDFs? At only 30 pages long, the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s Media Interests Snapshot weighs in at a(…)

We see it in the news daily, that awful word TERRORISM, but when does an act of violence or selfishness suddenly become an act of terrorism? There are times, for example this weeks tragic event in Nice, when the ‘terrorist groups’ claim responsibility for the act of terror, yes, to me this is when we(…)

Since 9/11 the Australian Government and the media have perpetuated fear of terrorist attack in our daily lives, enabling an acceptance that our Government can promulgate our fundamental human rights. The repercussions of the media focussing on every major event as a terrorist attack, inadvertently allow Terrorists to instil more fear in our lives and(…)

The world mourns the tragic events in France on Bastille day. World media has flocked to Nice to report on this tragic event, Terrorism, the leading headline. Did the media perhaps miss the point and only aid the hysteria over Terrorism? Was this instead, a horrific criminal act of Mass murder? As I write this,(…)