Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 09 November
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Inspired by the BBC One comedy show, we’ll test the fake-news-detecting skills of our panel and audience. Can our panel of seasoned journalists fool the audience with bluster and bluff, fakery and fabrication? Will our audience pick the true news stories from the pork pies?
With Brett McLeod, Gaven Morris, Michelle Griffin and more to be announced.
New News is presented in partnership with the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne, and Monash University.
Featuring
Brett McLeod
Brett McLeod is an award-winning journalist and news presenter at the Nine Network. He has covered many major news stories in Australia and overseas.
As well as Nine News, Brett has filed for CNN, SKY News, and radio stations across Australia and internationally. Graduating in media at RMIT, Brett started in the newsroom at 3AW in 1983. He rose to become News Director and presenter of the Drive program before moving into television in 2000.
Shortly after joining Nine, Brett was appointed Europe correspondent. He covered many of the major stories this century, including reporting from Baghdad during the US invasion of Iraq, coming under fire during the 2010 Red Shirt protests in Bangkok, reporting live from Kinglake after Black Saturday, and was one of the first Australian journalists into Aceh after the 2004 tsunami. He’s also filed from conflict zones including Afghanistan, Beirut and East Timor.
Gaven Morris
Gaven Morris has extensive experience as a news executive, news editor, reporter and producer. He spent almost a decade in international news, first at CNN in London as an online and television reporter, and as a roving international news producer and senior editor.
Prior to his appointment as Director ABC News in 2015, Gaven was Head of News Content for ABC News, a role that saw him overseeing all of ABC News’s digital and broadcast news output – scheduled television and radio news bulletins, News 24, NewsRadio, the Asia-Pacific News Centre and online and mobile news services.
His other previous roles include ABC National Editor for ABC News Online and ABC Head of Continuous News.
Michelle Griffin
Michelle Griffin is currently News Director at the Age – and responsible for direction of news content across the publication. Michelle has been at the paper for 11 years in a number of roles, including editor of M Magazine, Arts and Culture Editor, Age Deputy Editor (Sections), Federal News Editor, State Editor from July 2012 and, most recently, Acting Deputy Editor.