Truth vs Spin – framing & framed – Thurs 31st May 2007, Mercy Theatre, ACU

Professor Rob Watts is Professor of Social Policy in the School of Global Studies Social Sciences and Planning. He is the Discipline Leader for social sciences in the School as well as director of teaching and learning for one part of the recently amalgamated Schools. After teaching at Latrobe University and the University of Melbourne in the 1970s he taught in Colleges of Advanced Education in Melbourne and in Canada and also helped establish what became Victoria University in 1987. He has been with RMIT since 1993-4.

Matthew Ricketson, media and communications editor, The Age
Matthew has worked on staff as a journalist at Standard News, The Age, The Australian, The Sunday Herald and Time Australia magazine. Before taking up his current position at The Age in June 2006, he ran the Journalism program at RMIT for 11 years. He has a Master of Arts (communication studies) from RMIT and is writing a PhD about book-length journalism at Monash University. His biography of the Australian author Paul Jennings was published by Viking in 2000. He has written a textbook entitled Writing Feature Stories (Allen & Unwin) and has edited an anthology of journalism entitled The Best Australian Profiles (Black Inc).