Hear one of the leading thinkers on the future of journalism, Jay Rosen, in conversation with Melbourne’s emerging journalists.

Concerned about the future of journalism or interested in being a part of it? Then check out New News 2010 which runs this Thursday and Friday in Melbourne. Sarah Green looks at some of the program highlights.

An array of local and international speakers will take part in next month’s Walkley Media Conference in Sydney. Their mission? Figuring out how storytelling can thrive as we enter the second decade of the 21st century.

Michael Skoler believes that heritage media has much to learn from Web 2.0. A recent piece he wrote for Harvard’s Niemann Reports has been selected by Sarah Green for our list of the the ’100 articles every journalist should read about journalism’.

Upstart is one year-old this Saturday. Co-founders Lawrie Zion and Chris Scanlon look back on the first twelve months of an experiment that’s resulted in dozens of students and journalists publishing more than 500 items on the site.

With many major media companies now planning to build paywalls for their content, Kellie Mayo selects a cautionary tale about the challenges one newspaper has faced for inclusion in our list of the ’100 articles every journalist should read about journalism’.

Could Google help revive the economic fortunes of journalism? The Atlantic’s James Fallows argues there’s grounds for optimism, and Lawrie Zion has added his recent cover story on the subject to our ’100 articles’ list.

Foreign correspondent jobs have always been highly sought after. But what is the future of reporting for one’s home country from a disant desitnation? As part of our ’100 articles’ project, James Briggs considers a sobering 2007 Washington Post piece by Pamela Constable.

Are you a final-year journalism student in 2010? If so, you can join the journalists’ union for free while completing your degree.

Despite the record heat, upstart has survived the festive break and made it back for the start of a new year. It’s the dawn of 2010, a year we hope holds plenty of exciting developments in store for emerging journalists.