Melbourne Press Club

Early Career Awards

Celebrating new and young talent in our industry

The Edit: Finding focus – a career in photojournalism

This Edit event will discuss those challenges, starting with how to find your way in the job, to wrestling with AI, issues of verification, how to cover big events and what it takes to land that unforgettable image.

Journalists’ voices must be heard not stolen: Thomson

News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson has called on journalists to fight pomposity and content theft to ensure the future of their craft. Here is the prepared text of his address to the Melbourne Press Club’s 2014 Hall of Fame dinner on Friday, 10 October:

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We’re looking for a Victorian media student, recent graduate or early-career journalist to help foster the next generation of our industry

The Edit: How to start your own podcast

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Ever dreamt of starting your own hit podcast? Here is your chance to meet two women who have made that dream a reality.

The Edit: News made mobile

The Edit

Are you a budding journalist eager to dive into the world of mobile-first journalism and vertical video?

Coping with challenging coverage

While you might consider yourself resilient and able to weather difficult stories – based on what you have already experienced in your career – the impact of continued exposure to traumatic stressors can be cumulative and even single instances can trigger unexpected reactions.

Easy ways to dial down stress

What are the best ways to take the sting out of the pressures and strains of a day on the tools? The advice is that best short-term stress relief comes with things that can be performed anywhere, take very little practice to master, are free and provide immediate relief, according to this month's column from the Dart Centre.

'I think we're just that local voice. That's something we do better than anyone else...'

You don’t need to be a long-term local in regional Victoria to understand the power of community journalism. In this story, Matthew Hall speaks to two young sports journalists at regional mastheads who have quickly learned how important it is to not only tell those stories, but to ensure every detail is correct.

What's good about the Ballarat Times?

By starting in the very job she trained for, Edwina Williams defied a trend for journalism graduates. In less than five years since, she has worked her way up to be the senior journalist at the Ballarat Times, a free community weekly serving her hometown.

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Early Career Awards

The Edit: Finding focus – a career in photojournalism

Journalists’ voices must be heard not stolen: Thomson

Join our Edit subcommittee

The Edit: How to start your own podcast

The Edit: News made mobile

Coping with challenging coverage

Easy ways to dial down stress

'I think we're just that local voice. That's something we do better than anyone else...'

What's good about the Ballarat Times?

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