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The Spectator
Will free market forces and robust competition save the media? Wall Street Journal editorial board member Mary Kissel discusses her time at the Centre's Public Knowledge Forum and the responses from audiences and fellow...
The New Republic
Is objective reporting possible, or should journalists accept that their voices are intrinsically subjective? Public Knowledge Forum speaker John B. Judis argues that the demise of objectivity has been greatly exaggerated.
US News & World Report
US News & World Report managing editor Robert Schlesinger is visiting Australia to speak at the Centre's Public Knowledge Forum. While in Sydney, he heard word of a telling...
The Australian
The Australian's Strewth column covers the ins and outs of the Centre's Public Knowledge Forum, including author and former Fairfax owner Conrad Black's thoughts on the US justice system and former...
PressThink
In this preview of his presentation at the Public Knowledge Forum, New York University professor Jay Rosen explains the difference between "old testament" and "new testament" journalism, and why reporters like Glenn Greenwald...
The 14th issue of the Centre's magazine, American Review.
The Conversation
NSA director Keith Alexander has been forced to defend his agency’s operations after a series of revelations, exposing mass data gathering and surveillance programs on US citizens and world leaders. Lecturer...
The budget shenanigans show Washington is highly dysfunctional
Not much: the post-industrial city should be left to create its own future from the ashes
Is technology sapping our attention span and ruining our concentration?
How FDR saved liberal democracy by compromising on it
The budget-cutting, small-government inter-war president has emerged as a role model for today’s conservative Republicans
With competition descending on print media, consumers will merely weed out poor quality media and pay for what they value
The Guardian
Traditional journalists now have to contend with a host of web-based rivals, but research associate Mary Kissel, who will appear at the Centre's Public Knowledge Forum, argues the competition will do them good...
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia and the US both need a change of political culture to attract the best female talent, says director of the Centre's new Women in Leadership project Melissa Grah-McIntosh.
Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” is sweeping across the media landscape
The US alliance is undoubtedly a palladium for Australia
A timely realist repudiation of neo-conservatives and liberal hawks
The Washington Post
Can the labour movement broaden its scope of action? The University of Wisconsin-Madison's John S. Ahlquist, University of Washington PhD candidate Amanda B. Clayton, and visiting professor Margaret Levi explore...
How two media accounts of the intrusive security state led to different political outcomes
