Margaret Simons to speak at Community Broadcasting Conference

Margaret Simons will be the keynote speaker at the 2011 CBAA annual conference later this month, themed Culture and Content, Community Media. Simmons is a freelance investigative and feature journalist who writes for Crikey, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, and The Monthly.

 

She is Convenor of Journalism at Swinburne University of Technology and author of The Content Makers – understanding the media in Australia. In the book she analyses audiences, our major media organisations, the role of government, and the implications of all of these for our society.  For more information about her work, visit Margaret Simons’ website

 

Conference workshops include:

  • Governance and Management,
  • Enriching the audience experience through social media;
  • ACMA Licence renewal and planning;
  • Sponsorship;
  • Community Media Arts: Facilitating engagement and social participation;
  • Content, Community, and Creative Storytelling;
  • Interviewing on the run 101;
  • Broadcast Automation Software;
  • Citizen Journalism with guest presenter Gari Sullivan. Gari is a UK based educator and citizen journalist.

 

The event begins with a welcome BBQ on the evening of Thursday 17 November and the conference runs from Friday 18 – Sunday 20 November on the Queensland Gold Coast. Registration details here.

 

The community broadcasting sector’s Annual general Meeting will be held on Saturday afternoon. A range of board positions will be up for election at the AGM. On the Saturday night, the sector’s annual Voxies awards will take place. For a list of finalists, click here.

 

To view an outline of the 2011 Conference program, visit the CBAA website at the link below.