Our head of professional development, Corinne Podger, has pulled together links to the latest research and a free online course on AI tools for journalists. — By Corinne Podger If you’ve used a tool like Otter or Descript to transcribe interviews, send predictive text messaging, or called an Uber using Siri, you’re already using AI. What’s new about recent tools like ChatGPT, MidJourney and so on — is that they are generative, rather than predictive.

By Corinne Podger This was my fourth International Journalism Festival (IJF) and I have learned over the years that the best approach is to use my time at the conference meeting and networking, and catch up on the rich programme on YouTube. The Festival was held a few weeks after…

By Corinne Podger Making journalism financially sustainable remains a challenge for many newsrooms, large and small. In recent weeks we’ve seen significant redundancies at VICE World News, Buzzfeed News, and the closure of MTV News. But there are success stories, too, and many were shared in Perugia at the International…

By Corinne Podger Every year more than 3000 journalists, researchers and media development organisations descend on the medieval Italian town of Perugia for the International Journalism Festival. The speaker list for the 5-day conference is an industry who’s who from Europe and North America. It’s been great to see increased…

A report from MojoFest 2022 by Rob Layton, Assistant Professor of Mobile Journalism at Bond University. — It was apparent from MojoFest 2022, the world’s premier gathering of mobile journalists, that mojo had come of age. For the first time in its eight-year history, the formerly dedicated event was incorporated into the much larger Media Production and Technology Show in a cavernous hall in West London that…

2022 Shortform Winner — The John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year Awards Associate editor and investigative reporter for Crikey, Amber Schultz, won the 2022 John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year Award in the Shortform journalism category for her reporting on opportunistic predators…

2022 John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year — Emily Baker, the 2022 John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year Award won the Public Service category and was also a finalist for Shortform Journalism for her reporting on former Tasmanian politician Adam Brooks. …

Our interview with the winner of the 2021 Walkley Book Award, for The Winter Road. — The Winter Road explores the 2014 killing of environmental officer Glen Turner by 80-year-old farmer Ian Turnbull outside Croppa Creek, NSW, and the legacy of land management since colonial settlement that led to the tragedy. Kate Holden spent four years on The Winter Road, piecing together the crime from media…

Shining a light on inconvenient truths is rarely comfortable, especially for journalists who report on their close-knit regional communities. But Newcastle Herald investigative journalist Donna Page wouldn’t have it any other way. — Donna Page always wanted to be a journalist. While most children were engrossed in Disney movies or reading their favourite story books, eight-year-old Page spent her Sunday evenings watching 60 Minutes with her grandfather.