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The new newsroom (Sydney)
Moderators
Editorial Director, Broadsheet Media
Tim Fisher is editorial director of Broadsheet Media and a board member of the Emerging Writers’ Festival. He has edited websites and magazines for publishers including Architecture Media, News Corp and Morrison Media, worked on communication strategy for non-profit organisations...
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Speakers
Presenter, founder, Radio NZ, VoxPop
Peter Fowler has a passion for public broadcasting and is a digital news pioneer. His latest innovation “VoxPop” is a radio studio in your pocket. VoxPop allows anyone to record in near-studio quality on their smartphone which is also transcribed to text and uploaded to the...
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Manager, Global Journalism Partnerships, Facebook
Áine Kerr leads global journalism partnerships at Facebook, overseeing a team focused on building products, tools and services for journalists and also working to improve news literacy for news consumers. Previously, she spent five years at Storyful, where she served as head of content...
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News Lab Lead, Asia Pacific, Google
Irene Jay Liu leads Google News Lab in the Asia-Pacific region, based in Singapore. She was previously an investigative reporter and data editor at Reuters, where she was a 2017 Pulitzer finalist in the national reporting category, and taught data-driven investigative journalism at...
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CEO and Executive Editor, Rappler.com
The CEO and Executive Editor of Rappler.com, Maria is one of the founders of the 6-year-old company, one of the leading online news organizations in the Philippines. Maria has been honoured around the world for her courageous and bold work in fighting disinformation, “fake news...
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