By Sian Gard Daniel Clarke, freelance journalist and filmmaker, was recently named South Australia’s 2023 journalist of the year at the 2023 SA Media Awards. …

An excerpt from Walkley-winning journalist Liam Mannix’s new book Back Up — In 1997 WorkCover, Victoria’s workers’ safety regulator, launched ‘Back Pain — Don’t Take It Lying Down’, a multi-million-dollar experiment in the power of belief. WorkCover got interested because, then as now, back pain makes up an enormous amount of workers’ injury claims; nearly 50 per cent of all claim payouts…

Alana Pahor, from On The Record, UniSA, reports from MEAA’S 2023 SA Media Awards. — At this year’s SA Media Awards night, award recipients shared the importance of covering confronting stories with sensitivity, honesty and empathy. The top awards for professional journalist and student journalist, sponsored by the University of South Australia, were both taken out by individuals covering mental health trauma in rural communities.

Walkley Foundation head of professional development, Corinne Podger, shares her top tips to get journalism news in your inbox. — The fundamentals of good journalism — accuracy, independence, good storytelling, and serving our audiences — will never change. But the tech and platforms to support it are in constant flux, and to help keep on top of all that change, I subscribe to a wide range of newsletters. …

A pugnacious extract from Sally Young’s new book Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires (UNSW Press). — THE ANGLICAN PRESS BRAWL Frank Packer was a harsh and remote father who used to dish out what younger son, Kerry, described as ‘a lot of hidings’. Frank considered both sons to be disappointments, but in the 1950s and early 1960s, Clyde was his favourite and heir apparent. Kerry, as a child with polio…

By Corinne Podger As Justice Besanko prepared to deliver his decision last week, there were more than 9,000 people watching the live broadcast I was following. Unsurprising, given the national and international interest in the case, and its implications for how public interest journalism is done. There was extensive coverage…

Tobias Hinds reports from MEAA’s 2023 Tasmanian Media Awards. — By Tobias Hinds, from the Media School at the University of Tasmania ABC reporter Katri Uibu has won Journalist of the Year at the 2023 Tasmanian Media Awards. Katri’s investigative report on the abuse of children within the Australian child protection system exposed how it is failing to protect the…

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…