by Fiona West | Aug 11, 2016 | media, news
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
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
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 Fiona West | May 11, 2016 | media
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
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...
