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Press Freedom
in a Challenging Environment

40th Anniversary
International Conference
Sydney, Australia
4-5 May 2016

To help celebrate the Australian Press Council’s 40^th Anniversary and its proud history of promoting press freedom and high standards of media practice, the Council is hosting a major international conference in Sydney.

Key themes of the conference will include:

influences of technological, social and commercial change on journalism;
The need for reform of secrecy, censorship and defamation laws and over-regulation by governments;
The role of independent press councils in enhancing press freedom by setting high standards and maintaining public confidence

Venue: L’Aqua, Darling Harbour

THEMES SPEAKERS

PROGRAM BOOKING

OTHER EVENTS SPONSORS

For information about reduced rates for Walkley Foundation Press Freedom Dinner tickets, click here.

More than 150 people from the media, government, the professions, regulatory bodies, universities and think tanks will attend the conference, which will include a mix of keynote speeches, panel discussions and Q&A sessions.

Invitations to the conference are being extended to a range of other leading journalists, publishers and thought leaders in Australia and overseas, including the major social media companies which are themselves becoming “publishers” as well as aggregators and curators of information. Press council officials from around the world will also attend.

Among our confirmed speakers:

David Barstow, a senior writer at The New York Times and an award- winning investigative journalist.

Kate McClymont, a five-time winner of Australian journalism’s most prestigious award, the Walkley, including the Gold Walkley.

Kate Geraghty, the renowned Australian photojournalist, will deliver a luncheon address on 5 May, entitled “Words Fail Me”.

Madhu Trehan, founding Editor of News Laundry in New Delhi

Anna Nemtsova is a Russian journalist based in Moscow and a correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast.

The Australian Press Council is proud to be cooperating on this project with the Walkley Foundation.