PEN Lecture: Fragile Minds (Wheeler Centre) [Melbourne]
PEN Lecture: Fragile Minds (Wheeler Centre) [Melbourne]

Event Information

Date/Time

Wednesday July 17, 2019
6:15 PM

Location

The Wheeler Centre
176 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Australia

Auslan Interpreter/s

Rebecca White & Amber Richardson

Language/ Cultural Consultant

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Journalism is at its second crossroads in two decades: not one of means, but of privilege. The loss of major revenues has made the press fragile, both economically and also in terms of self-reflection. At this year’s PEN Lecture, Schwartz Media editor-in-chief Erik Jensen will make the case for a serious reckoning across the profession; a re-evaluation of standards of ethics and objectivity.

‘I am asking for us to consider the impact of what we report and how we report it. I am saying the ethical bar we are clearing is not set high enough. Our code of ethics needs to be rewritten, and it not by people who look like me.’Join Jensen on 17 July as he asks how the media can change itself to keep up with a society that has already changed.

Presented in partnership with PEN Melbourne and PEN Sydney

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