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 | Oct 24, 2016 | opinion, writing
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 | 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...
