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ISSN: 1329-878X |
Henry Mayer Lecture 2007
We are pleased to say that this year the lecture will be given by Peter Manning, who is the former head of News and Current Affairs at the ABC and Seven networks. He was a Producer of Four Corners from 1982-1984 and the Executive Producer from 1985-1989. Prior to that he worked as a reporter for a range of publications and media, including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin and edited Nation Review. He is now Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Sydney's University of Technology, and a sought-after commentator on media issues. Abstract Media power grows apace in our society. Many Australian cities are one-newspaper sites and restrictions on cross-media ownership are being lifted. On the other hand, new digital media outlets are also spreading. Is the space for democratic conversation about public policy narrowing or widening? In this context, with financial pressures on university budgets increasing, many university presidents are complaining of threats to universities' independence as a communities of scholars. This lecture will posit that the media and the university are heading in different directions but, as the legacy of the great Jewish intellectual Henry Mayer would show, this need not be so. Biography Peter Manning joined the University of Technology Sydney in 2001 as an Adjunct Professor following a distinguished 30-year career in Australian journalism. He had been Head of Current Affairs at the Seven Television Network (1997-2000), Head of ABC Radio National (1993-5) and head of ABC Television News and Current Affairs (1989-92). Between 1985 and 1989 Peter was Executive Producer of the prize-winning Four Corners, specializing in investigative reporting. Prior to that, he had been a television, radio and print reporter in ABC television and radio, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Bulletin. He was trained at John Fairfax and Sons Ltd, and is author of Us and Them: A Journalist's Investigation of Media, Muslims and the Middle East, Random House, Sydney Australia, 2006. This lecture is the latest in a series of annual lectures, commemorating Professor Henry Mayer, who in 1976 founded Media International Australia.Members of the public are invited to attend this free lecture, after which light refreshments will be served. |
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