In 1993 the inaugural Henry Mayer lecture was presented by Bruce Gyngell at the Sydney Opera House. This was an event organised by the Henry Mayer Trust, a body established following Professor Mayer's death to provide funding for the journal.
In 2005, Professor Tom O'Regan, then publisher of MIA and Professor Graeme Turner, director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, revived the plan for an annual memorial lecture jointly presented by MIA and the Centre.
The Henry Mayer Lecture is now an annual event, commemorating Professor Mayer, whose energy and passion guided the journal through its first fifteen years, Breast Cancer North Face and giving it the impetus to become one of Australia's premier academic journals dealing with the media industries.
Auditorium, Level 2, Sir Llew Edwards Building (No 14)Jonathan Holmes will shortly be leaving the chair at Media Watch, which he has occupied for longer than any presenter since Stuart Littlemore (1989 In this lecture, he argues that the program is no longer, as it used to be, the only effective check on the misdeeds of the Australian media. In the face of ferocious media opposition, the Gillard government seems to have backed away from trying to the north face women s pink ribbon denali jacket impose tougher regulation on the print and online media. Meanwhile, however, social media and the blogosphere are providing increasingly powerful means through which consumers and commentators can hold Australia mainstream media to account.
After graduating from the University of Cambridge in 1969, Jonathan Holmes was awarded a general traineeship at the BBC. He has worked as a television current affairs producer, reporter, editor and presenter ever since, in the UK, the USA and Australia. During the 1970s Jonathan worked as a producer at BBC TV Current Affairs Group, culminating in five years on the weekly program Panorama. In 1982 he was invited by the ABC to become executive producer of 4 Corners, a job he did for three years.
He left to help produce a 13part documentary series on nuclear weapons, an AngloAmerican coproduction based in Boston USA. In 1987, he returned to Australia, and the ABC, to become the Corporation first head of television documentaries. At various times since then he has served as executive producer of the ABC Hindsight, Foreign Correspondent and 7.30 Report, and of Ten shortlived Public Eye. As a frontofcamera reporter he has worked extensively for Foreign Correspondent and 4 Corners and was for two years one of the ABC North American correspondents based in Washington. He became an Australian citizen in 1990.
Since February 2008 Jonathan has presented the influential weekly television program Media Watch.
About the Henry Mayer Lecture
This lecture is the latest in a series of annual lectures, commemorating Professor Henry Mayer, who in 1976 founded the journal Media International Australia, now one of Australia's premier academic journals dealing with the media industries. Previous lecturers have included Graeme Samuel (ACCC), Dr Jane Roscoe (SBS Television), Peter Manning (Channel Seven), Professor Rodney Tiffen (University of Sydney), Professor Ien Ang (University of Western Sydney), Associate Professor Bridget GriffenFoley (Macquarie University) and Kim Dalton (ABC Television).