by Fiona West | Aug 8, 2017 | media, reviews
Thirty-seven years ago Melbourne single mother-of-two Maria James sent her eldest son off to school with a chilling message: “If anything happens to me look after your brother.” That afternoon in June 1980, Maria was dead, found brutally stabbed 68 times...
by Fiona West | May 24, 2017 | media
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
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 | 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 admin | May 17, 2016 | media, news, opinion
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...
