In the coming week two Australasian Christian Media Conferences will be taking place in Melbourne Australia.
The Australasian Religious Press Association (ARPA) will be begin on Friday and The Catholic Press Association (ACPA). Conference will follow, beginning on Tuesday.
Read Andrew Hamilton’s “Credibility at stake for restrained religious media”.
The conferences are held in a different Capital city each year. Last year Wellington, New Zealand was the host city
The ARPA conference will begin on Friday with a welcome lunch.
The keynote speakers are Fr Frank Brennan SJ who will speak on Human Rights and the Media and Doctor Margaret Simons whose topic is Philosophy and Ethics of the Media.
There will also be a session introducing delegates to the World Cafe Movement.
The dinner and awards will take place on Saturday evening.
The ACPA Conference Mass is to be celebrated by Archbishop Denis Hart and will be followed by the Annual Awards for Excellence.
Presenters at the ACPA Conference are Greg Morgan, CEO Fraynework, a former cameraman with BBC, CNN, who among many other events has covered Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and the 2004 South Asian tsunami, and Peter Casamento, a freelance photographer, who has worked on Catholic publications across Australia.
Source:
- Christian Today
- ARPA
- ACPA
- Image: ARPA
