The Yarn
The Yarn
The Yarn is a podcast out of the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. It is mixed, produced and edited by students, and showcases student work at its best.Follow the podcast:
News Bites: Zen and the Art of Pitching with Sami Shah
Today, we're returning to our News Bites series. It spotlights the work of staff and students at the Centre for Advancing Journalism. This week’s guest is Lecturer and audio journalist Sami Shah. Sami got his start in a Pakistani newsroom. Since then, he’s moved to Australia where he’s hosted the…
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Breaking the Binaries: Beastly Bonds
In medieval times, humans were confident they knew how the universe was ordered. One fourteenth century illustration – known as the Great Chain of Being – depicts God at the top of the heap, sitting amongst the clouds. Below him is a tier of humans. Below them, is a lowly tier of animals swimming…
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Breaking the Binaries: Taboos
This week, The Yarn is confronting taboos. We're bringing you four stories about what happens when doing the right thing means breaking the rules. It’s the second episode of Breaking the Binaries, our new series about the intersections that blend, blur, or break society’s binary codes. T…
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Breaking the Binaries: Unreality
“From chatbots and virtual assistants to self-driving cars and smart homes, AI is becoming an increasingly pervasive presence in our lives, raising questions about privacy, ethics, and the future of work.” So pervasive that the sentence you just read wasn’t written by a human. It was written by…
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Vietnamese Outworkers in Australian Fashion
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, tens of thousands of refugees fled their country to start a new life in Australia. Many of them found jobs as outworkers — fashion workers who sewed from home instead of at garment factories. Although they played an important role in Australia's fashion industry…
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News Bites: Jenny Cai on Adapting to a Fast-Paced Newsroom
Our fifth News Bites guest is Jenny Cai, a former University of Melbourne journalism student who now works in the ABC's Asia Pacific newsroom. She spoke to Louisa Lim about getting a foot in the door, covering the war in Ukraine, and how to survive and thrive in a fast-paced newsroom.
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News Bites: Louisa Lim on Multiplatform Journalism
Our fourth News Bites guest is Louisa Lim, a senior lecturer who spent a decade as an audio journalist in China for the BBC and NPR. During that time, she was on the ground for some of the region’s most consequential events, including the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. More rec…
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News Bites: Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson on Media Coverage of the Pacific
Our third News Bites guest is Dr. Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, a journalist who has spent over 20 years reporting on climate change, human rights, and other issues affecting the Pacific Islands. She spoke about Australia's coverage of the Pacific with Petra Stock, a Citizen reporter, and Kate Lyons…
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Uncurated: To Infinity and Beyond
A thesis, glass tubes, a bronze plaque. This is the evidence left to remember world-class atmospheric physicist Jean Laby. She was the first woman to achieve a PhD in the School of Physics in 1956. But on a campus that lacks recognition of historically significant women, this prompts the question: …
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Uncurated: The Other Gold Rush
This week on Uncurated, Caitlin Duan and Isabella Vagnoni go on a road trip to learn about the forgotten history of Percy Lindsay. Along the way, they discover stories about the Chinese-Australian experience from the gold rush era to the present day. -- Interviewees: Alyssa Bunbury - Curator of t…
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