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"Peepli Live" And "No One Killed Jessica": Remediating The “Bollywoodization” Of Indian Tv News, Sukhmani Khorana
"Peepli Live" And "No One Killed Jessica": Remediating The “Bollywoodization” Of Indian Tv News, Sukhmani Khorana
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This article considers two recent Hindi-language films, "Peepli Live" (2010) and "No One Killed Jessica" (2011), that depart from formulaic Bollywood in content and form and shed light on the practice and reception of television journalism in contemporary urban India. Extending Daya Kishan Thussu’s discussion of the “Bollywoodization” of Indian TV news, the article argues that the films perform a remediation by refashioning and commenting upon other media. On the one hand, the films represent different aspects of TV journalism in present-day India. On the other hand, they also comment on and critique its machinations through the narrative devices available …
Industry Needs And Tertiary Journalism Education: Views From News Editors, Trevor Cullen, Stephen J. Tanner, Marcus O'Donnell, Kerry Green
Industry Needs And Tertiary Journalism Education: Views From News Editors, Trevor Cullen, Stephen J. Tanner, Marcus O'Donnell, Kerry Green
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This research paper discusses the findings from a 2012 Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) sponsored project that canvassed the views of news editors around Australia about the "job readiness" of tertiary educated journalism graduates. The focus of this paper is limited to responses from news editors in Western Australia. Data was collected via face to face interviews with eleven news editors in Perth, Western Australia. The editors work in print, online, broadcast and television and all of them employ journalism graduates. The aim was to assess whether the five university based journalism programs in Perth provide graduates with the …
Q&A: How The Sydney Siege Was Reported By The Public And News Professionals, Julie N. Posetti
Q&A: How The Sydney Siege Was Reported By The Public And News Professionals, Julie N. Posetti
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The dramatic siege in Sydney’s Martin Place played out in front of a global audience through real-time reporting by mainstream news outlets abetted by social media. Australian media academic Julie Posetti watched this story break on Twitter late at night from Paris, where she is on secondment from the University of Wollongong as a Research Fellow with the World Association of News Publishers and the World Editors Forum. Here she discusses the way the events were reported.
The News We Lose When We Cut Local Newspapers, Shawn Burns
The News We Lose When We Cut Local Newspapers, Shawn Burns
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
I remember the day I started work at what was then The Imlay Magnet in Eden. It was 1991 and I had taken the job straight out of my journalism degree at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (now the University of Canberra). The desk was clear, all but for the IBM and the flashing green cursor on its otherwise blank black screen
Tweeting The Election: From Gaffe Gags To Breaking News, Marcus O'Donnell
Tweeting The Election: From Gaffe Gags To Breaking News, Marcus O'Donnell
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The next 24 hours will still bring heavy campaigning, but as election 2013 begins to warp it is time to look over various aspects of the campaign. The Storify below is an overview of some of the ways Twitter has been used in the campaign by journalists, voters and political players.
News, Views And Agendas: Talkback Radio And Muslims, Jacqui Ewart, Julie N. Posetti
News, Views And Agendas: Talkback Radio And Muslims, Jacqui Ewart, Julie N. Posetti
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Talkback radio has the power to attract and repel, delight and disgust in equal measures. The talkback phenomenon is defined by the extension of an invitation from the presenter to the audience to participate in the programme by phoning in, SMS messaging or emailing their views, opinions and contributions. While much of the Australian research in this field has been preoccupied with the talkback radio host as shock-jock and celebrity,! little attention has been paid to the way audiences conceptualise the space and themselves within that space. We initially set out to explore how talkback radio programmes affected audiences' perceptions …