Fourth Estate

Every week, we discuss how the media has covered the news and analyse issues affecting the industry - with some of the biggest names in journalism in Australia and around the world. Broadcast live on Sydney's 2SER 107.3FM, with the financial assistance of the Community Broadcasting Foundation.

News
1
Reflecting on 2022 and Reporting On Australia's...
31 min
2
Journalism Across The Tasman- A New Zealand Spe...
34 min
3
Australian Media Still Has A Diversity Problem
39 min
4
US Midterms and a Musk Owned Twitter
29 min
5
The End of Twitter As We Know It
34 min
6
Paddy Manning on The Successor
48 min
7
Holding Institutions to Account in a Climate C...
30 min
8
Media and Misogyny- Gillard’s Speech 10 Years On
42 min
9
Data Hacks and Cyber Attacks
30 min
10
The Rise of Hyperlocal Journalism
33 min
11
Media and the Monarchy
37 min
12
Get Your Mojo Back with Smartphone Journalism
35 min
13
Crikey vs Lachlan Murdoch
34 min
14
News In My Language
35 min
15
Partying Politicians- Seeing Double or Double S...
38 min
16
TV Echo Chambers and Political Polarization
34 min
17
The One Person TV Crew
36 min
18
Facebook Pivots Away From News In US
31 min
19
Blak Bias: Media Reckonings and Media Apologies...
34 min
20
Blak Bias: Racism and the Conservative Legacy M...
36 min
21
Blak Bias: Native Title and Indigenous Land Own...
40 min
22
Blak Bias: When Does Reporting Race Matter in t...
40 min
23
Blak Bias: Indigenous Media and the Changing Ne...
29 min
24
Blak Bias: More than Media - Indigenous Journal...
28 min
25
Introducing Blak Bias- Trailer
2 min
26
In Conversation with Lynne O'Donnell
38 min
27
National Radio News Turns 25
33 min
28
Fair Go For Freelancers
29 min
29
Data Journalists on Sourcing & Visualising Data
40 min
30
Fighting News Fatigue
30 min
31
Lessons Learned from Rebel Wilson 'Outing'
34 min
32
Reporting on Violence, Let’s Do Better
38 min
33
Beyond Gaffes, Press Packs & Stats: A Post-Elec...
41 min
34
Breaking Through The Political Spin This Election
45 min
35
In Conversation With Antoinette Lattouf
32 min
36
Is Australian Politics Becoming Presidential?
36 min
37
Fact, Fiction & Horse Race Journalism
34 min
38
Vote 1 for Election Podcasts
32 min
39
Australia and The Pacific; Strengthening Media ...
33 min
40
Decoding The Federal Budget
35 min
41
Young Journalists Talk Journalism
34 min
42
Two Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine War
47 min
43
Could We Have Stopped It And Is Putin Finished?
43 min
44
When is Someone’s Past in the Public Interest?
35 min
45
Taking the Polls of the Nation
29 min
46
Changing How We Cover Climate Change
32 min
47
Joe Rogan and the Power of Podcasting
35 min
48
2021 In Review
48 min
49
Is Cultural Criticism Dead?
39 min
50
In Conversation with Fran Kelly
41 min
51
A Top News Editor Transitions: In Conversation ...
33 min
52
In Conversation With Lisa Davies
30 min
53
Keeping Community Newspapers Alive
37 min
54
The Facebook Files
31 min
55
FriendlyJordies, Satire and Social Media Commen...
26 min
56
The New Generation of News
28 min
57
Gaven Morris Job Done?
34 min
58
Going Gaga For Gladys
35 min
59
Social Media - Never Read The Comments!
42 min
60
In Conversation With Lisa Millar
47 min
61
9-11 And The Liberal Media's Dark Legacy
39 min
62
News Corp's Climate Change
38 min
63
In Conversation With Gabrielle Chan
37 min
64
The Death Of Zero Covid And The Unclear Path Ahead
38 min
65
Four Corners turns 60
43 min
66
IPCC Report And The Media's Report Card
30 min
67
No Youtube for you!
36 min
68
Jones And Sky News Serve Up Dangerous Garbage
30 min
69
2GB Stumbles And Vale Jonathan Coleman
43 min
70
Andrew Dodd On Upheaval - Disrupted Lives In Jo...
29 min
71
Cathy Wilcox and First Dog on the Moon
38 min
72
Osaka, Goodes And Sports Media
46 min
73
In Conversation With Laura Tingle
46 min
74
Christian Porter And The ABC Claim Victory.
34 min
75
In Conversation With Geoffrey Robertson
35 min
76
Can The Media Do Better On Palestine?
39 min
77
Is The Media Beating The Drums Of War?
36 min
78
In Conversation with Phil Williams
62 min
79
In Conversation With Caro Meldrum-Hanna
47 min
80
The Crusade Of Women Journos
39 min
81
In Conversation with Andrew Jaspan
56 min
82
A Reckoning?
45 min
83
IWD - Fixing the Joint
46 min
84
Women's Lives Through The Canberra Bubble
33 min
85
The Media's Representation of Brittany Higgins
32 min
86
Facebook Becomes a News Desert
32 min
87
Fake News and the Next Generation of Journalists
41 min
88
Will Google Pull Out of Australia?
28 min
89
Is Twitter a Toxic Place for Journalists?
35 min
90
In Conversation with Dominic Knight
43 min
91
In Conversation with Geraldine Doogue
43 min
92
The Year in Media Transition
63 min
93
Black Stories Matter: From Media Silence To Med...
30 min
94
Anne Summers Unpacks The Biden Administration
36 min
95
In Conversation with Todd Heisler
45 min
96
Black Stories Matter: Aboriginal self-determina...
30 min
97
Reporting On Covid-19 From Trump To Dan Andrews
35 min
98
American Democracy Interrupted
40 min
99
Ben Smith On How The Media Got Trumped
24 min
100
Andrew Fowler on Assange
44 min