Thursday 15 December Journalism Politics and Popular Culture
10.00-10.30: Intro and Recap
10.30-11.00: SBS Documentary Series Fine Line Episode Six: Inside the Tabloid Press
Episode Six takes viewers inside the daily operations of a popular tabloid newspaper. The film-makers were granted virtually unlimited access to reporters and photographers on the Sydney News Limited publication The Daily Telegraph. The result is a forensic look at how this cheeky tabloid publication deliberately set out to grab the political agenda in the 2003 New South Wales election campaign. We follow the paper’s chief reporter as he prowls the streets of the notorious Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, join a photographer on a clandestine stake-out of drug dealers and cross-examine the paper’s patrician editor Campbell Reid, a man who makes no apology for what he calls his paper’s “loud and provocative” voice.
Interviewees: Campbell Reid, editor; David Penberthy, reporter; Stephen Cooper, photographer; various other staff, The Daily Telegraph.
11.00-11.30:Discussion
11.30-12.00: Morning Tea
12.00-1.00: Narratives of Media History
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-5.00: Workshop: Judith Miller Project
