New story source

Mochila - the Media Marketplace starts working this weekend. It is a new idea in buying and selling stories for newspapers, magazines and websites using a website to do the exchange. Well worth a look.

Oncology award

The Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (COSA) is calling for nominations from journalists with a commitment to high quality cancer reporting for its Luminous Award Australia 2006. There are two categories - print and broadcast - each worth $5,000 and the winner and highly commended entrants are nominated for the global competition.

iAwards 2006 nominations close

The Australian Information Industry Association iAwards close today. Finalists will be announced in 2 March and winners on 7 April 2006.

Press Council lunch

The Australian Aress Council 2006 Annual Address with AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty is on in Sydney 12.30-2.30 pm today. Tickets are still available.

.au web awards

Netguide magazine has published its 2005 Netguide Web Awards with winners and Highly Commended named here.

Media changes paper

A pdf of the full paper Meeting the Digital Challenge: Reforming Australia’s Media in the Digital Age is available from the department site at http://www.dcita.gov.au/broad/media_reform_options.

Public Right to Know conference

ACIJ's 2006 Public Right To Know conference is this weekend 11 & 12 March at University of Technology, Sydney.

ASTRA conference

The ASTRA (Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association) seventh annual conference starts tomorrow Thursday, March 9 at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney.

iAwards finalists

The iAwards 2006 finalists announced.

Quill awards

Winners of the 2005 Quill Awards will announced in Melbourne tonight.

The winner of the 2005 Sensis Award for Student Journalism was Kate Stowell for her article 'A Democracy of Convenience' which was published in Eureka Street in January 2005 while Kate was studying at RMIT