Do newspapers have a future? And how long is that future?

Public Lecture
Tuesday 7 October 2008 @ 06:30 pm – 07:30 pm
Theatre GM 15, Melbourne Law School (bldg 106), 185 Pelham Street, Carlton

A N Smith Lecture in Journalism

Michael Gawenda – three-time winner of Australian journalism’s highly-respected Walkley Award and former newspaper editor – is the inaugural Director of the University of Melbourne’s Centre for the Advanced Study of Journalism, set to open in 2009.

Mr Gawenda is one of Australia’s best known and most distinguished journalists. His career in journalism began at The Age, a newspaper he later went on to serve as Editor and Editor-in-Chief for seven years. He stepped down in 2004 to return to writing as a special correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
In 2007, he joined the University of Melbourne to help shape its new Centre for the Advanced Study of Journalism to be a focus for journalism research in
Australia, and a public interface between journalists, academia and the wider public.

Michael Gawenda’s 2008 A N Smith Lecture will explore the future of newspaper journalism, the role journalism plays in a liberal democracy, and some ways in which
newspapers will need to adapt to the great changes facing journalism.

The A N Smith Lecture in Journalism commemorates Arthur Norman Smith, a leading political journalist. Over its 70-year-history the lecture has attracted a series of distinguished speakers and is regarded as the most prestigious lecture on journalism in Australia. Among previous speakers are Rupert Murdoch, Bob Hawke, Michelle Grattan, Peter Beattie, Jon Faine and Maxine McKew.

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Speaker: Mr Michael Gawenda
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