An interview with the ABC’s director of news, Kate Torney, on the brave new future of our national broadcaster as it steps up its presence in the online world.
Podcasts
15 podcasts that will make you richer
Business Pundit has compiled a list of 15 top podcasts on finance, investing, marketing and more, to help get to know money better and, hopefully, learn how to make a whole lot more of it.
PODCAST: Chaser boys on controversy
Chaser boys Dominic Knight and Chris Taylor discuss the media frenzy surrounding their ‘Make a Realistic Wish’ skit and acknowledge that maybe Chaser outstayed its TV welcome.
Reform or rhetoric? Obama’s speech examined
Economics experts discuss US President Barack Obama’s speech to Wall Street bankers. Obama had some stern words — but were they stern enough to see real reform and prevent another economic disaster?
PODCAST: Michael Kirby: Why privacy matters
“In the age of the internet, stories that once would have been wrapping the fish and chips and forgotten a few weeks or months or years later
are preserved forever,” says former High Court justice Michael Kirby in this speech for Privacy Victoria.
PODCAST: The rise and rise of Levi Johnston
NPR looks at how a monosyllabic 19-year-old from nowhere Alaska has become one of the most in-demand interview subjects in the US media, and the people working behind-the-scenes to shape and promote his public image.
PODCAST: Behind Twitter and Reddit
Tech Weekly interviews Twitter co-founder Biz Stone — who explains what it’s like to be at the “eye of the storm” that is tweet hype right now — and the co-founder of social news website Reddit.
PODCAST: New Yorker editor on the future of magazines
New Yorker magazine editor Ben Greenman talks Media Bistro about the future of the magazine industry.
Listen to the Apollo 11 radiocast
Celebrate 40 years since Neil Armstrong took one small step for man by listening to the Apollo 11 radiocast in real time.
PODCAST: the paid content problem
To charge for online content or not to charge? This is the question facing major news organisations the planet over. The Guardian’s Media Talk USA podcast looks at the issues.
Is digital radio too little, too late?
We’ve been waiting 15 years for digital radio. Now it’s here, do we even need it? Swinburne Uni’s Jock Given tunes in to the debate.
