As mainstream media craters, a tsunami of mis-and-dis-information swamps social media, and governments hammer free speech, we examine the future of media.
Join us for the ‘BHP Ball and Inaugural MinterEllison Press Freedom Oration’. Now that BHP and MinterEllison have dropped their vexatious legal case against us we are reframing the ‘BHP Ball’ from a fundraiser to fight the lawsuit to a Ten Year Anniversary celebration.
Yours truly will be speaking on ‘The Future of Media’ and Dr Mohammed Mustafa – formerly a surgeon in Gaza – will speak on ‘Palestine and the Media’.
Music by Barbra Streisand.
Present will be friends of MWM, key players in independent media, whistleblowers, a top-notch climate and energy crew, lawyers and politicians, and advocates for free speech and government and corporate integrity.
There is more that unites us than divides us. So it is that Australian Jews, Palestinians and Lebanese will be there in numbers supporting peace, free speech and fearless evidence-based journalism.
Wendy Harmer is MC. Wendy Bacon, Rex Patrick, Michael Pascoe, Kim Wingerei, Stephanie Tran, Josh Barnett, Andrew Brown and the team will be there of course, along with those whistleblowers and champions of principle who have been persecuted for their integrity.
Join us at Dockside in Sydney on July 18 (tickets on sale here). Should it prove popular we can hold similar events in other cities.
Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.