Brendan Lucas and Damien Ractliffe have landed media jobs for 2013.
The Seven Network is putting the call out for reporters, producers and researchers to join its news and current affairs team.
Reed Business Information is looking for a junior journalist for its Editorial Cadetship Program in Sydney.
Brendan Lucas and Damien Ractliffe have landed media jobs for 2013.
The Seven Network is putting the call out for reporters, producers and researchers to join its news and current affairs team.
Reed Business Information is looking for a junior journalist for its Editorial Cadetship Program in Sydney.
The Second Upstart Online Film Festival, launched today, has something for everyone, from metrosexuals to history buffs.
A few weeks ago he was being ruthlessly exploited in his role as “upstart” editor. Now, it gives us great pleasure to confirm that Erdem Koc has just landed a job as as news journalist with SBS Radio in Melbourne.
What are the books that every journalist should read? upstart is on the hunt for the essential list and we want your suggestions.
Come with us now on a journey through time and space, back to the origins of La Trobe’s cultural and screen studies in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
La Trobe PhD student Perrin Brown is researching the effects of Freedom of Information laws on how journalists do their jobs, and he’s keen to hear from jounalists from all over Australia who are willing to be part of a survey he’s conducting.
CulturalDiversity News (http://culturaldiversity.net.au) wants to help up to five young Australians from diverse backgrounds across the country to spend some of the summer developing new ways of communicating about cultural diversity and human rights. You could be one of them.
Here at upstart we’re very pleased to welcome Tom Cowie as our summer editor. Tom is taking over the reigns from Erdem Koc, who has just completed his Law/Media degree and a successful stint as this publication’s inaugural editor.
No, we’re not doing this just because we want to drive more traffic to our site. OK, we are, but how else can we overtake the world?
It’s day two of the #Media140 conference in Sydney, which is exploring the future of journalism in the social media age. Click the above link for full details.
La Trobe’s Lawrie Zion is one of the panelists in a discussion this afternoon entitled “Do Journos do it better? Journalists in SocMedia Communities”, which is part of the Media140 conference being held in Sydney and streamed live on the web.
With the popularity of Twitter constantly growing, a new program feature allows users to create their own lists – and to be listed by others. upstart is dipping its toe in the water on this one.
The Arab Times in Kuwait has featured the journalism study tour from Australia, which includes upstart’s Erdem Koc, Tom Cowie and Kelly Theobald.
Kurt Mason, who is finishing a Graduate Diploma in Journalism at La Trobe, has been hired as a third-year cadet at a Fairfax paper, The Burnie Advocate, in Tasmania. Well done Kurt!
Congratulations to La Trobe journalism student Rania Spooner, who is packing her bags to head to Western Australian, where she’s been offered a cadetship with the Kalgoorlie Miner.
As semester two draws to a close, outgoing upstart editor Erdem Koc reflects on his experiences at the editor’s desk.
La Trobe University journalism lecturer Rachel Buchanan will read from her forthcoming book “The Parihaka Album” at the La Trobe Museum of Art at Glenn College this Thursday afternoon at 2:30.
On Wednesday 14th October, Lawrie Zion co-hosted the Conversation Hour with Jon Faine on 774 ABC Melbourne. Their guests included Don Watson, whose latest book is called ‘Bendable Learnings, The Wisdom of Modern Management’. They also discussed journalism education and upstart.
Hot from the editing suites, La Trobe University Media Studies students are showcasing their documentary films on Wednesday, November 11.
Philippa Campey, producer of the AFI-nominated documentary feature Bastardy will deliver a guest lecture in Media Project Development on Monday 19th October. The lecture will
Is Australia a racist country? See four of Australia’s finest thinkers debate this topic in a public panel at La Trobe University on Tuesday, October 20.
