Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 10 October
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Crowdfunding has been used to raise money for charities, visual artists and individual writers. What about journalism? Every year, the New News surveys how crowdfunding has been used to pay for the hard work of public interest journalism, as big newsrooms lay off staff.
With Kelly Briggs (@TheKooriWoman and Croakey), Matt Levinson of Get Up and Alan Crabbe of Pozible. Chaired by Melissa Sweet, Croakey.
Supported by the Public Interest Journalism Foundation
Featuring
Matt Levinson
Matt Levinson leads media and social media campaigns at GetUp!, was previously a senior adviser to Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore, and communicated CSIRO’s climate adaptation and sustainable cities research.
Matt was one of Creative Sydney’s top 100 new talents (2010), in a Eureka Prize-winning team for innovative solutions to climate change (2009), and a City of Sydney future leader (2013).
He’s been a radio broadcaster for FBI Radio and ABC Radio National, a blogger, a TV researcher on ABC’s Catalyst, freelance journalist and editor. Once upon a time, he was a scientist.
Melissa Sweet
Melissa Sweet is a public health journalist, author and founder of the public health blog Croakey. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Canberra (researching Indigenous health and journalism), an adjunct senior lecturer in the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, and chair of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation.
Kelly Briggs
Kelly Briggs writes about First Australian issues from an intersectional feminist viewpoint. Kelly is a supporter of First Peoples Self Determination and has been published in the Guardian, New Matilda, Croakey and the Hoopla. She was the winner of Social commentary blog of the year 2014 by the Australian Writers Centre for her blog thekooriwoman.wordpress.com and is currently working on an anthology piece for Indigenous X.
Alan Crabbe
Alan Crabbe is the co-founder and director of Pozible. He introduced crowdfunding to Australia and the Asia Pacific.
With his background in web application design, Alan and his co-founder built the Pozible platform that is used by thousands of creators to fund new creative projects and ideas.
Alan previously worked in a range of roles in small tech companies in the UK before moving to Australia in 2007. He developed a creative entrepreneurial spirit through a technology start-up that was spun out from Queen’s University in N. Ireland, where he studied a Bachelor of Science, Business and Information Technology.