Inside the Media's Coverage of People Smuggling between Indonesia and Australia
Pacific Leadership Fellow Public Lecture
10/03/2012, 05:00pm-06:30pm
Location: UC San Diego, Great Hall
Open to: Public
Event email: amrobinson@ucsd.edu
Speaker: Mr. Paul Ramadge
Registration is required for this event
Human trafficking and the global refugee and asylum seeker crisis has, in recent decades, become a global concern.
Paul Ramadge, a former editor-in-chief of The Age newspaper in Melbourne and now a Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at Monash University, gives a rare insider's account of the Australian media's performance in covering a story that has revealed almost every aspect of the human condition – pain and suffering, desperate voyages, corruption, political impasses and opportunism, loss of life, psychological scars, detention, legal battles and, for the lucky few, a chance to begin new lives.
With a media career spanning more than 30 years, Paul is a highly influential opinion leader in Australia. His views on journalism, leadership, audience engagement and the changing nature of the media are highly sought after. At The Age he led a newsroom of 320, from foreign correspondents to investigative and political reporters and production staff, to produce journalism of the highest quality while strategically positioning The Age to be a leading multi-media publisher.
Special thanks to the International Affairs Group (IAG) for co-sponsoring this event.
