by Fiona West | May 24, 2017 | media | 0 Comments
She’s photographed everyone from the Pope and prime ministers to the Queen, and the King of Pop. But it is the less conspicuous characters in her impressive portfolio that have made a lasting impression on Renee Nowytarger. “It’s funny, people say,...
by Fiona West | Nov 22, 2016 | media, news, opinion | 0 Comments
Last night, along with thousands of Australian viewers, I watched Four Corners’ special episode, A Sense of Self. I was so physically and emotionally moved by Liz Jackson’s personal account of her life with Parkinson’s disease I was unable to tweet,...
by Fiona West | Oct 24, 2016 | opinion, writing | 0 Comments
It’s a cool autumn night in a kindly lit meeting room of an otherwise deserted hospital ward. We are sitting in our customary circle at the young women’s breast cancer support group as the convener plops a full sized Yellow Pages directory in each of our unsuspecting...
by Fiona West | Sep 1, 2016 | books, writing | 1 Comment
As a newspaper crime reporter covering cops and courts in the 1990s and early 2000s I became aware of the name of now legendary detective Ron Iddles. The Victorian homicide detective with a 99% conviction rate was fast gaining the admiration of fellow officers, the...
by Fiona West | Aug 11, 2016 | media, news | 0 Comments
Journalists will soon be able to transport their audience somewhere else through augmented and mixed reality, a Sydney conference has heard. ABC R&D experience designer Amy Nelson yesterday told the Walkley Foundation’s Storyology festival journalists are...
by Fiona West | Jun 14, 2016 | media, opinion | 0 Comments
I recently saw this post on Facebook and it resonated with me as I had just been discussing “the art of listening” with my journalism students. It said: “The biggest communication problem is that we do not listen to understand. We listen to...
by Fiona West | May 18, 2016 | books, reviews, writing | 0 Comments
Just the mere mention of the words Tiananmen Square is enough for most Westerners to flash back to the infamous massacre of unarmed civilians on June 4, 1989 and the indelable image of “Tank Man” standing off against the PLA soldiers in the Beijing Square...
by admin | May 17, 2016 | media, news, opinion | 0 Comments
But does the blame lie solely with management? By Sinclair Davidson Last week a reported 20 to 30 Fairfax Media journalists were made involuntarily redundant. While recognising in a dynamic economy that businesses will contract and expand all the time, we should...
by Fiona West | May 11, 2016 | media | 0 Comments
Be careful what you post on social media or you might end up in jail! These days many people use social media to comment on current affairs and people in the news. But most of them do not realise the potential implications. A 21-year-old Swansea University student...
by Fiona West | May 6, 2016 | media, movies, reviews | 0 Comments
Spotlight shows the importance of journalism at a time when the value of the profession is being questioned, budgets are being tightened and newsroom numbers are dwindling. Spotlight tells the true story of how a small team of tenacious investigative journalists at...
