- Aug
- 07
On Tuesday 07 August between 11:00am–12:00pm, join our live videoconference:
WordSpace: Journalism
Join Lynn Freeman and Julie Hill in a discussion about journalism, with a focus on arts.This session will give your students the chance to ask questions like how to approach the writing and presenting of an article, and how they go about researching an article. WordSpace is a series of videoconference discussions between secondary school students and leading New Zealand writers, brought to you by the New Zealand Book Council and the Southern Trust. To participate, your school will need to be a member of the Book Council. Please use this link to find out how to become a member: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/about/aboutschoolmembers/html
Lynn Freeman
Lynn Freeman
Lynn Freeman hosts 'The Arts on Sunday' on National Radio, and is also the theatre critic for Capital Times in Wellington. Lynn has been a presenter with Radio New Zealand for 20 years, and has been Senior Producer for 'Morning Report' and the Executive Producer for 'Nine to Noon'. She has produced 'Sunday Morning' with Chris Laidlaw and presented 'What's Going On' for the past six years. Lynn has won several awards at the Qantas Media Awards, most recently in 2005 with her Insight story 'Can culture save us?' Lynn is one of New Zealand's leading arts journalists, and is one of the judges this year for the BPANZ Review Awards, as well as judging Wellington's annual Chapman Tripp Awards.
Julie Hill
Julie Hill is a journalist for TV, radio and print; as well as a scriptwriter. She has been an arts reporter for the TV arts show Frontseat and a producer for Radio New Zealand. Overseas, she's worked in London for the BBC World Service and for the Hanoi-based news website Vietnam.net. Julie's scriptwriting credits include MyStory, Zip and Mac's Pad and Lift. She has published short stories in Turbine and JAAM, and written a number of plays for the Auckland-based theatre group,Winning Productions. Julie was nominated for Best New Playwright for Stories Told To My By Girls at the 2006 Chapman Tripp awards. She is currently working on a new sitcom in development for Prime called Welcome to Paradise.
Julie Hill
The Book Council will be creating a DVD of this session, which will be available for schools to purchase. If your school takes part in the session, please be aware that we will need signed permission forms from all participating students.
To register for this videoconference, email: digitalconversations@cwa.co.nz or telephone: (04) 382 6515 by Friday 20 July 2007
