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Journalism & Creative Non-fiction


Friday 24 Aug 2012 at 09.00 am

New News Opening

Margaret Simons

Venue: Yarra Building
Code: 8201
Price: Free - Bookings Required ($0.00)

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Friday 24 Aug 2012 at 10.00 am

The Actor's Life

Michael Cathcart, Simon Callow

Venue: BMW Edge
Code: 1201
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Friday 24 Aug 2012 at 10.00 am

New News: Data Daze

Nicholas Gruen, Craig Thomler, Craig Butt, Suelette Dreyfus

Venue: Yarra Building
Code: 8202
Price: Free - Bookings Required ($0.00)

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Friday 24 Aug 2012 at 10.00 am

New News: What Cost News?

Margaret Simons, Hal Crawford, Matthew Pinkney, David Higgins, Bronwen Clune, Paul Ramadge

Venue: ACMI Cinema 1
Code: 3201
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Friday 24 Aug 2012 at 11.30 am

New News: Future Journalism

Margaret Simons, Hal Crawford, Matthew Pinkney, David Higgins, Bronwen Clune

Venue: Yarra Building
Code: 8203
Price: Free - Bookings Required ($0.00)

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Friday 24 Aug 2012 at 11.30 am

New News: Insiders or Outsiders?

Melissa Fyfe, Sue Roff, Tim Dunlop, Denis Muller, Chris Uhlmann

Venue: ACMI Cinema 1
Code: 3202
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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The New Yorker: Major stories

Friday 24 Aug 2012 at 12.00 pm

Lunch: The New Yorker - Big Stories, Big Impact

The New Yorker has been home to ground-breaking journalism since its beginning, more recently breaking news with stories on international military scandals and tales of capital punishment (gone very wrong). With spectacular views from Eureka 89, join MUP publisher Louise Adler as she talks with The New Yorker’s Editorial Director Henry Finder and staff writer David Grann, as they discuss how the big stories broke and what the consequences were.

Venue: Eureka 89
Code: 9201
Price: Business Lunch - NY ($120.00)

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Friday 24 Aug 2012 at 01.00 pm

New News: Everyone's a Critic

Alison Croggon, Sasha Frere-Jones, Ed Charles, Stephen Downes, Tom Neal Tacker, Claire Davie

Venue: Yarra Building
Code: 8204
Price: Free - Bookings Required ($0.00)

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Friday 24 Aug 2012 at 01.00 pm

New News: Tweets from the Street

Margaret Simons, Adrian Lowe, Andy Carvin, Derryn Hinch, Kerry O'Shea, Tim van Gelder

Venue: ACMI Cinema 1
Code: 3203
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Friday 24 Aug 2012 at 02.30 pm

Canberra Unbound

Steve Lewis, Chris Uhlmann, Tony Wright

Venue: ACMI Studio 1
Code: 4204
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Friday 24 Aug 2012 at 02.30 pm

New News: Living with the Fink?

Alan Sunderland, Julian Disney, Denis Muller, Matthew Ricketson, Phil Gardner

Venue: ACMI Cinema 1
Code: 4205
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Friday 24 Aug 2012 at 02.30 pm

New News: New Media's Upstarts

Jonathan Green, Luke Stegemann, Mel Campbell, Michael Gawenda, Chris Were, Lauren Martin

Venue: Yarra Building
Code: 8205
Price: Free - Bookings Required ($0.00)

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Friday 24 Aug 2012 at 06.30 pm

Big Ideas: New News: GOTCHA! - A Hypothetical in Three Acts

Proudly presented by the Centre for Advanced Journalism at the University of Melbourne, supported by Melbourne Press Club and Copyright Agency Limited

Gay Alcorn, Nick McKenzie, Andrew Crook, Justin Quill, Kathy Bowlen, Neil Mitchell, Peter Clarke

Venue: BMW Edge
Code: 1206
Price: Big Ideas - Full ($30.00), Big Ideas - Concession ($27.00)

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Saturday 25 Aug 2012 at 10.00 am

New News: Textbook Journalism

Alex Wake, Matthew Ricketson, Chris Nash, Nick Richardson

Venue: The Wheeler Centre
Code: 7302
Price: Free - Bookings required

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Saturday 25 Aug 2012 at 11.30 am

New News Incubator: Crowdsourcing a new publication

Daniel May, Fiona Armstrong, Paul Ramadge, Bronwen Clune, Melissa Sweet

Venue: The Wheeler Centre
Code: 7304
Price: Free - Bookings required

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Saturday 25 Aug 2012 at 01.00 pm

A Particular Eye

Penny Modra, Badaude

Venue: Ian Potter Centre NGV Australia, Federation Square
Code: 9304
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Saturday 25 Aug 2012 at 01.00 pm

New News: You Are the Future

Andy Carvin, Hal Crawford, Sandra Hanchard, Nicholas Gruen

Venue: The Wheeler Centre
Code: 7305
Price: Free - Bookings required

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Saturday 25 Aug 2012 at 02.30 pm

New News: Editors Talk

Eden Riley, Henry Finder, Kate Torney, Michael Gawenda, Phoebe Montague, Lauren Martin 

Venue: The Wheeler Centre
Code: 7308
Price: Free - Bookings required

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Saturday 25 Aug 2012 at 04.00 pm

New News: Tweeting the Arab Spring

Margaret Simons, Andy Carvin

Venue: ACMI Cinema 1
Code: 3305
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Sunday 26 Aug 2012 at 11.30 am

Seizing the Australian Moment

Michael Gordon, George Megalogenis, Laura Tingle

Venue: BMW Edge
Code: 3402
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Sunday 26 Aug 2012 at 01.00 pm

The New Yorker: Dancing About Architecture

Proudly supported by the Hart Line subfund of Australian Communities Foundation

Robert Forster, Sasha Frere-Jones, Mike Shuttleworth

Venue: ACMI Cinema 1
Code: 3403
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Sunday 26 Aug 2012 at 02.30 pm

The New Yorker: On Obsession

Proudly supported by the Hart Line subfund of Australian Communities Foundation 

James Button, David Grann

Venue: ACMI Cinema 1
Code: 4403
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Friday 31 Aug 2012 at 11.30 am

Making Robots Think

Proudly supported by Cosmos Magazine

Leah Kaminsky, Lee Gutkind

Venue: Yarra Building
Code: 8902
Price: Free Non-ticketed ($0.00)

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Lunch: Our Global Economy

Friday 31 Aug 2012 at 12.00 pm

Lunch: Our Global Economy

Proudly supported by The Responsible Investment Association Australasia

John Ralston Saul, John de Graaf, Gideon Haigh  

Venue: Sofitel Melbourne
Code: 9982
Price: Business Lunch - Sofitel ($90.00)

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Saturday 01 Sep 2012 at 01.00 pm

The Story of Science

Michael Corballis, Margaret Wertheim, Peter Doherty, Elizabeth Finkel, Leah Kaminsky

Venue: The Wheeler Centre
Code: 7102
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Saturday 01 Sep 2012 at 02.30 pm

Ingredients for a Great Restaurant

John Lanchester, Dani Valent, Andrew McConnell

Venue: ACMI Studio 1
Code: 3104
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Saturday 01 Sep 2012 at 02.30 pm

In Conversation: Pico Iyer

Michael McGirr, Pico Iyer

Venue: ACMI Cinema 2
Code: 2101
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Saturday 01 Sep 2012 at 02.30 pm

Fact, Fiction, Truth

Kate Holden, Lee Gutkind, Lee Kofman, Robin Hemley

Venue: The Wheeler Centre
Code: 7104
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Saturday 01 Sep 2012 at 04.00 pm

In Conversation: Robert Dessaix

Robert Dessaix, Fiona Gruber

Venue: The Wheeler Centre
Code: 7105
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Saturday 01 Sep 2012 at 06.30 pm

Launch: Creative Nonfiction

Proudly supported by Tashmadada

Deborah Leiser-Moore, Leah Kaminsky, Lee Gutkind, Peter Bishop

Venue: The Wheeler Centre
Code: 7106
Price: Free

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Sunday 02 Sep 2012 at 11.30 am

Inside Asia

Alicia Sometimes, Pico Iyer, Benjamin Law

Venue: ACMI Studio 1
Code: 4111; Age:
Price: Full ($21.50), Concession ($19.50)

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Sunday 02 Sep 2012 at 06.00 pm

The Radio Hour

Pico Iyer, Jaye Kranz, Rachel Maher, Natalie Kestecher, Paper Radio, Dan Marsh, Shane O'Mara, James Cecil, Jon Tjhia, Jessie Borrelle, Chloe Hooper

Proudly supported by ABC Radio National.

Venue: Fairfax Theatre
Code: 9111
Price: Tickets are available through Arts Centre Melbourne

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