Ethics, Democracy and Journalism
A panel discussion with award-winning journalists.
In an era of so-called fake news, where world leaders malign the media and Facebook can determine election outcomes, is journalism still the lauded Fourth Estate?
As business models collapse, reality television stars hold the public spellbound and media managers decide who will be interviewed and what they’ll be asked, is news still ‘what somebody does not want you to print’?
Has news become advertising? Or do we live in a world that, thanks to the ability to reach millions with a single post, has never been more democratic, and never more able to expose truth, hypocrisy and folly?
Helen Pitt is a senior culture journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald and a Walkley Award-winning author of The House, the story of the Sydney Opera House. She has edited the opinion and letters pages, Spectrum and over a nearly 40-year career has worked extensively in the US at New York Times Digital and in Europe at TV station Euronews.
