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Margaret Simons

Margaret Simons is an award-winning freelance journalist and the author of seven books and numerous essays and articles. She is also a part-time lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology.
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The Content Makers: Margaret Simon's blog

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Social media - death or salvation of professional journalism?

At this Media140 Sydney forum, Fran Kelly (ABC RN) hosts a panel of eminent journalists and newsmakers on the impact of social media and the internet on professional journalism

Conceptual confusion and journalistic process

Margaret Simons' account of some of the highlights and lowlights of the first day of Media 140 are outlined in The Content Makers

Fairfax board: what happened to the other three candidates?
The media: revolutionary highway

Well-known media blogger and journalist, Margaret Simons, herself wrestling with the challenges of adapting to novel demands and opportunities, tells Peter Clarke there is no turning back now to the old one-to-many model of news journalism

Revolutionary highway

PODCAST | There's no turning back for the news media

Public broadcasting looks for a future
Public broadcasting looks for a future
Movement at last on media policy
Movement at last on media policy
A taxonomy of blogs

Author and media analyst Margaret Simons takes a stab at defining the different types of blogs that currently exist

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Rethinking the Rules Governing Australia
16 March 2010

Australian citizens are being asked to provide input into a nation-wide
discussion about how to improve the rules governing our country.

Rethink Australia spokesperson Rodger Hills, says the time has come to
review the way Australia is run. “As citizens, we have a responsibility to
plan for a brighter future and a more enlightened democratic process than
the one we have inherited from our fore bearers.”

Rethink Australia has released a public discussion paper today to provide
the basis for dialogue and deliberation amongst members of the public over

Secrecy law reforms strike a blow to old culture of government secrecy
12 March 2010

The Australian Law Reform Commission report into Commonwealth secrecy laws, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112) is the result of a 15 -month inquiry which identified 506 secrecy provisions in 176 pieces of Commonwealth legislation, including 358 criminal secrecy offences.

WANTED: Communications Projects (Melbourne)
16 February 2010

RMIT University in Melbourne runs a degree program where groups of
communication research‐trained students work on a communication research
project for a not‐for‐profit client.

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