The No Illusions Podcast #56 – Wendy Bacon on Media Bias

Summary: Wendy Bacon is a contributing editor to <a title="New Matilda" href="http://www.newmatilda.com/" target="_blank">NewMatilda</a> and has reported for <a title="Crikey" href="http://www.crikey.com/" target="_blank">Crikey</a>,  the <a title="Sydney Morning Herald " href="http://www.smh.com.au/" target="_blank">Sydney Morning Herald</a> and <a href="http://theconversation.edu.au/">The Conversation</a> in recent times. She is an investigative journalist with a background in social activism who worked at the University of Technology for 21 years. Although no longer teaching at UTS, Wendy is still a <a title="Professor of Journalism " href="http://www.journalism.uts.edu.au/" target="_blank">Professor of Journalism</a> at the <a title="Australian Centre for Independent Journalism " href="http://www.acij.uts.edu.au/">Australian Centre for Independent Journalism</a>. In 2011 <a href="http://www.acij.uts.edu.au/pdfs/sceptical-climate-part1.pdf">she published a report</a> on the bias in Australian newspapers over their coverage of climate change. The results of this report BLEW MY MIND. I chatted with Wendy yesterday about the report and the state of journalism in Australia. You can find Wendy's website <a href="http://www.wendybacon.com/">here</a> and her Twitter account <a href="https://twitter.com/Wendy_Bacon">here</a>.