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the current chair of Music Australia, Michael Smellie. Michael with music mogul Clive Davis As part of this year’s conference, we’re inviting you to participate in a rare opportunity to ask this global music thought leader questions regarding the industry. · Michael’s career in the music business spans more than 25 years. · He has worked across five continents as former Global Chief Operations Officer of Sony BMG, Asia Pacific Head for BMG, and Managing Director of Polygram and rooArt ...

Why war reporting is a profession like any other. By Bettina Gaus Old city of Hebron, Westbank, 1989. Israeli soldiers used to separate the Palestinian locals and the Israeli settlers The image of the war reporter as a lone wolf — male, of course, and good looking — travelling solo around the world in search of the truth, has always been a cliché, far from reality. The so-called "lone" wolves (not always handsome, and often female) in war zones have been "embedded" in organizations long ...

Share Phnom Penh – Today Sweden and UNESCO signed an agreement to initiate the project “Strengthening Media Development and Freedom of Expression”, to be implemented in partnership with UN Human Rights. Sweden will contribute 23 million Swedish Kronor (around USD 2,5 million) to UNESCO. This new strategic agreement includes activities that will be implemented in the next three years, which aim to foster a safe, free, pluralistic, and independent media environment conducive to greater free...

April 06, 2021 at 07:55 AM EDT On the afternoon of March 30th, 2021, the kick-off of the cloud promotion campaign named Fresh Opportunities for Jinan with the theme of Join Jinan for a Win-Win Future, was unveiled in the Rongmeiti (Convergence Media) Studio of Jinan Daily Newspaper Group (JDNG) Building. As the reporter learnt, this event was the second cooperation between Jinan Investment Promotion Bureau (JIPB) and JDNG, following the online investment p...

New Educational Member Brings Ghent Workgroup Right Back to its Roots Ghent Workgroup welcomes Artevelde University of Applied Sciences Login or register now to gain instant access to the rest of this premium content! The Ghent Workgroup (GWG) has its roots – as the name implies – in a series of meetings between standard organizations in the city of Ghent, Belgium. Those initial meetings took place at the premises of the Artevelde University. Over the years the group returne...

Science of Coercion: Communication Research & Psychological Warfare, 1945–1960, Christopher Simpson writes: “At heart modern psychological warfare has been a tool for managing empire, not for settling conflicts in any fundamental sense…In practice modern psychological warfare and propaganda have only rarely offered ‘alternatives’ to violence over the medium-to-long term. Instead, they have been an integral part of a strategy and culture whose premise is the rule of the strong at the e...

Image: Annie Spratt/Usplash Today is the day the SABC transitions into its “new fit-for-purpose purpose structure”, as the public broadcaster promised when it issued a release on the finalisation of its retrenchment process. The SABC board is believed to have endorsed far-reaching proposals to put the broadcaster back onto a sound financial footing and to bring an end to continually having to be bailed out by the taxpayer. Some of the most radical cost-cutting measures will involve progra...

Follow RT on By  Kit Klarenberg, an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. New documents raise serious questions about how well-deserved British state broadcaster BBC’s unimpeachable reputation is, and also what impact its relationship with the UK government has on its supposedly ‘impartial’ output. Within a tranche of secret UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) papers, recently leaked by hacktivis...

Follow RT on By  Kit Klarenberg, an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. Leaked documents have revealed details of a massive secret British propaganda campaign aimed at making swathes of people in the Baltic states feel more positively about the West – and more negatively about their ethnic homeland. The UK government has for several years targeted residents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, “ whose primary lang...

Dear Mr McCormack, We are writing to you to congratulate the Auckland University of Technology on its contribution to Pacific media and journalism and – at a time when Pacific journalism is under existential threat and Pacific journalism programmes suffer from underfunding – to urge you to ensure your university continues to play the globally pre-eminent role in supporting media, communication and journalism education, research and collaboration. AUT’s Pacific Media Centre (including its ...