The Future of Mainstream Media

Alan Rusbridger was editor-in-chief of Guardian News & Media from 1995 to 2015. He launched The Guardian in the US and Australia as well as building a website that today attracts more than 100 million browsers a month. The paper’s coverage of phone-hacking led to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and ethics in the United Kingdom. Alan is the author of Play It Again and Breaking News. 

Professor Mark Scott AO is the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Sydney. 

Under his leadership, the university has embarked on an ambitious 10-year strategy with immediate commitments to more than double scholarship support for under-represented domestic students and invest nearly half a billion dollars in a world-leading biomedical precinct. 

Professor Scott is a highly respected and successful senior leader of large and complex institutions, across public service, education, and the media. His notable roles include Secretary of the NSW Department of Education (2016 to 2021), Managing Director of the ABC (2006 to 2016) and Editor-in-Chief of Fairfax newspapers. 

In addition to his role as Vice-Chancellor, Professor Scott is currently the Chair of the Group of Eight universities and Chair of the Conversation Media Group board. 

Jonathan Green has been an editor, writer, commentator and broadcaster in a 40-year career as a journalist, beginning with a cadetship at The Canberra Times and including 15 years at The Age. He is the author of Around Australia in 80 Days (2004) and The Year My Politics Broke (2013). He has been editor of literary quarterly Meanjin since 2015, and he presents Blueprint for Living on ABC Radio National.