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THE FOURTH ESTATE
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Weekly radio that offers up a fresh, unbiased detailing of the everchanging world of the media and communications industries. The Fourth Estate is produced from Radio 2ser, Sydney.
Episodes
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Episode 42: December 2-5, 2011
THE FOURTH ESTATE FINALE FOR 2011 - Walkley beds Wikileaks as Assange picks up a gong - The year in review following that NOTW debacle - Social media marketing face-off
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Episode 41: November 25-28, 2011
In the penultimate edition for 2011, on the show this week, we allot some time towards reflection over some of the events that went down in the media over the course of the year: incidentally, so did the ABC and ACMA... - Post Mortem 278: The latest Kyle Sandilands scandal - We draw out the…
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Episode 40 - November 18-21, 2011
Only but a handful of shows left for 2011 to air for you, but fear not, the team is still crankin out the good stuff, including: - SPIN DOCTORS AND THE CAMPAIGN PROCESS: KATE AUBUSSON Looked into the role of PR in campaigning for a position in the US Republican party - WOLF CREEK 2: MURDERING THE...
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Episode 39: NOVEMBER 11-14, 2011
THIS WEEK ON THE PROGRAM: - AU KIDS ONLINE: Groundbreaking research published that compared and contrasted the internet usage of children aged 9-16 from 26 nations, shows Aussie kids are proficient and tech-savvy at a younger age than European counterparts'. Mig Caldwell spoke to PROF. LELIA…
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Episode 38: November 4-7, 2011
This week, we were a little comical, learnt mum's the word in online marketing and maybe NPR is facing serious public pressures...? - we went over to the other side of the world to report on a New York reporter who ultimately should've retained the right to silence, after her public outcry...
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Episode 37 - October 28-31, 2011
The eleventh hour of the station's annual subscriber drive had reached the 2ser studios on this week's live version of the Fourth Estate, with a great number of support shown to 2ser and independent radio! - SBS to overhaul news programming schedule: NATHAN COATES - Citizens of the world unite…
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Episode 36: October 21-24, 2011
Subscriber Drive special from Fourth Estate HQ: Radio 2ser, so: - Community radio in Honduras: an independent voice promoting democracy under oppression - New Matilda in Drive - Online news favourite launched its own subscriber drive - iPhone, therefore I am: Siri is the latest technology…
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Episode 35 - October 14-17, 2011
- Game on! - SURG-ing on in the community media - BBC cost cutting could leave regional areas without
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Episode 34: October 7-10, 2011
On this week's edition of the show: - Tweetin' the blues: Latest Mindframe media initiative aimed at combatting depression - Pink media proves to be where the market is: one man's vision has developed into a gay media marketing company - After the Bolt: what media independence means in the wake…
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Episode 33 - 30/9/11-3/10/11
This week on the show: The landmark decision handed down by Federal Court judge, MORDY BROMBERG, found controversial opinion writer, ANDREW BOLT, and his employer, The Herald and Weekly Times, guilty of publishing discriminatory material, questioning the validity of fair-skinned Aborigines in…
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Episode 32: September 23-26, 2011
- Nathan Coates spoke to Media Watch presenter, Jonathan Holmes, about the new media inquiry announced by Stephen Conroy last week - Dylan Barber got dangerous ahead of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas - Annie Wylie went to celebrate (another) 21st birthday: Drum Media hits the big anniversary
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Episode 31: September 16-19, 2011
This week, we welcome the initiatives that inspire the SYDNEY FRINGE FESTIVAL; as well as examine the repercussions of inaccurate reports in the media and catch up with head of Screen Studies at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) plus The Wire current affairs show managed to...
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Episode 30: September 9-12, 2011
It was a week where no news actually did see the heat off the media for a little while, and yet, Team Fourth Estate plunders on... On the show, as well as catching up with charming old mates of musical media, WIKIFREAKS, with their track, "Julian Assange", we also looked at: - The proposal to…
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Episode 29: SEPTEMBER 2-5, 2011
Today, Bob Brown speaks exclusively to The Fourth Estate about a government-led media inquiry after making numerous call-outs in the public sphere prompting this action. We also talk to Screen Australia about online convergence and local content quotas And we meet the latest "It" man in the New...
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Episode 28: August 26-29, 2011
Showcasing this week within the vault of issues plaguing the media: - A monumental move by UN saw the publishing of General Comment 31, amending its Universal Declaration of Human Rights to address free speech and new media covered in Article 19 - Battle of the sexes waging war online: 90% of...
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Episode 27: August 19-22, 2011
A mixed bag of stories to make you stop to reconsider such as: - How powerful your online presence can be and the potential legal repercussions that can come from it - When you last visited a bookseller - How you could have potentially been missing the hottest calendar event that tops the list…
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Episode 26: August 12-15, 2011
This week, the show looks at the role of online media in the wake of London's horrific riots: there are many arguments citing its presence as both good and evil. Plus we get through the whizz-bang new technologies adapted to the cinema-going experience Wendy Collis spoke to Claire Marshall: an...
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Episode 25: August 5, 2011
On this week's program: Mig Caldwell looked into the necessity of the media in reporting the taking of one's own life, with the release of refined guidelines for journalists reporting on suicide, issued by the Australian Press Council. Nathan Coates interviewed two journalists that managed to…
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Episode 24: July 29 - August 1, 2011
This week, we catch up with Crikey columnist, Bernard Keane, to debate over notions of trust in relation to the media and general public. And, because, apparently, you're worth it the UK Advertising Standards body has ruled against airing commercials produced by cosmetic giant, L'oreal and...
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Episode 23: July 22-25, 2011
This week, we delve further into the News of the World in the aftermath of Murdoch's public disgrace, PROF. ALAN KNIGHT, takes on the hard issues: from accountability to the reportage of the scandal as offered up by Murdoch's own, Australian newspaper. He also confronts CAROLINE OVERINGTON over…
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Episode 22 - July 15-18, 2011
As the News of the World phone hacking scandal deepens, NATHAN COATES spoke about whether the role of our AUSTRALIAN PRESS COUNCIL needs to have more impact on media accountability. MIG CALDWELL played around with the short story performance group, PENGUINS PLAY ROUGH, on the debut of the…
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Episode 21: JULY 8-11, 2011
This week, the news was hot off the press with new reports, speculation and sensation updated almost hourly regarding the hacking scandal seeing Murdoch tabloid, NEWS OF THE WORLD, halting the printing press after more than a century... Also grassroots social advocates/anarchists GETUP! found...
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Episode 19: June 24-27, 2011
This week we boasted more global mileage within the space of half an hour, than all the major airlines combined could clock up in a week! From the Central American nation of Honduras, that is suffering under a military regime that disposes of independent, opposing media - including three…
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Episode 18: June 17-10, 2011
This week, on THE FOURTH ESTATE, we peruse over the future for bookshops; the vulnerability of journalists; atheism and good, old-fashioned quality radio features... - Gleebooks co-owner weighs in on the debate surrounding the future of Australian book retailers in light of news that some 500…
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Episode 17: June 10-13, 2011
Mig Caldwell did temporarily leave the building. But she made sure she left it, in the capable hands of ANNAMARIE REYES- known as ‘AM’ or ‘Yo-teach’ at the station. Joined by LEEANNE TORPEY and ANNIE WYLIE, they got their brains dirty with the stories: PAYWALL system for newspapers – under the...
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Episode 16: 3-6 June, 2011
Did anyone mention Carbon Cate or Categate in the past few minutes? Well you won’t for at least the next half hour here on the fourth estate A new safe sex campaign in Queensland, rip and roll was removed from bus stops leading to thousands protesting via facebook and twitter within hours,...
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Episode 15: 27-30 May, 2011
Today the show marks its debut on the community digital spectrum as declared by Marie Bashir in Sydney’s Darling Harbor, the future of broadcasting is finally here and available to the community sector. And offer up a bit of colour to an arguably bland anglo cinema world Plus we host up an on-air...
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Episode 14: 20-23 May, 2011
Mig Caldwell takes an unprecedented hiatus, entrusting the show to Annamarie Reyes..excuse the sketchy deets..
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Episode 13: March 13-16, 2011
It was the show that tried to address some post-budget blues, that generally saw Wayne Swan's financial plan received like a lead balloon. So the show this week did indulge in some obligatory money talk: both in terms of the dated revenue policies enacted back in 1969 which came with the last...
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Episode 12: May 6-9, 2011
This week, we have a bit of a chuckle over the crucial reportage mistake that came out of the thousands of reports that proceeded the killing of Osama bin Laden...on a more serious note, we looked at: - Sub-editors reach sub-zero at Fairfax: Newly appointed CEO of the extensive Fairfax Media…
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Episode 11: April 29-May 2
This week on The Fourth Estate, Mig Caldwell is joined by Ellie Schneider and Nathan Coates - two invaluable team members who contribute to the show - to bring you: - The NT Mojo project: AKA Northern Territory Mobile Journalists: a government funded collaboration between IVO BURUM of BURUM MEDIA...
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Episode 10: Good Friday-ANZAC Day
SAVE NRN: National Radio News enjoys a large national audience of paid subscribers, and yet the community broadcaster's future is in doubt...Enter former cadet, Luke Dufficy who started up a simple yet effective campaign plea that has driven a massive surge in support via facebook... SAVE THE…
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Episode 9: April 15-18, 2011
This week on the show, The Fourth Estate team take no prisoners in terms of investigation: from the armed forces to Greenpeace, the public sphere is nicely well-rounded... Shant Fabricatorian offers up the scoop on the News Corporation tabloid, News of the World, amidst the controversy that arose...
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Episode 8: April 8-11, 2011
This week on The Fourth Estate, we firstly offered up the two sides of a current case being tried before the courts that has left the public divided: Andrew Bolt faces charges of racial hatred from comments published in the past about Aboriginal race. Plus, we meet a man on a mission, as GARI...
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Episode 7: April 1-4, 2011
In the dawning of a new State government for New South Wales following the recent election, The Fourth Estate looked at the celebrated development introduced for the disabled or absentee voters - "the eVote - and why it won't necessarily be in place for the next Federal election according to some...
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Episode 6: March 25-28, 2011
This week, the show was set to "global roaming" after a week of local media reports echoing that of a schoolyard tussle...from the ABC's shock homophobic tweet running across the Q and A screens recently, to the major networks battling it out for the rights to a quadrangle fight between two...
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Episode 5: March 18-21
#1:Making facebook democracy work: both in theory and practice Jordanian refugee, SOHAIL DAHDAL, has come a long way since his protesting days over 20 years ago as a student in his hometown. Now, in an effort to further understand, and tap into the powers of democracy harnessed by social networks...
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Episode 4: 11 March, 2011
Another grande week ,still giddy from the post-feminist content to emerge from the 100th annual International Women's Day, as well as new revelations, plus old junk and taking the NBN out bush.. #1: New terms for journalism; news media means new terms for whistleblower and shield protection laws…
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Episode 3: March 4-7 2011
This week, we fling the metaphorical bra into the fire, in celebration of the International Women's Day centenary, which makes its annual mark this Tuesday, March 8. Plus.. #1: Has the Australian media exploited the sufferers surviving in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake? Well the...
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Episode 2: February 25-28, 2011
So early into the season and yet already, I was struck down with illness, so my apologies for the rather shortened version to mark the second show... #1: Censorship in expression? Oz Mag's, Jim Anderson, has had a brilliant – if not controversial - career as an artist and satirist. Since the...
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Episode 1: 18 February, 2011
Hi there and welcome back for another year here on the fourth estate: the radio program airing on Community Radio Network (CRN) and Sydney's Radio 2ser, that forces journalism under dissection and PR to be approached with caution. My name is Mig Caldwell and I’ll be acting as producer over the...
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