ANZCA conference

The annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Communications Assciation is being held in Adelaide 5-7 July.

Communication ethics conference

The inaugural conference of the Institute of Communication Ethics AU/NZ will be held in Adelaide today.

Ossie awards open

Entries are now open for the JEA's Ossie Awards for student journalism.

Press freedom awards

The Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression (CJFE) International Press Freedom Awards close today, Canadian time.

Lyneham Award

Seven Network political editor Mark Riley won the 2006 Paul Lyneham Award for political journalism, announced at the Press Gallery's Mid-Winter Ball.

Student award

The FECCA/SBS joint national award for student journalism was announced on June 9. The winner is Phillip Thomson, then of Newcastle Uni and now of Port Macquarie News. He gets $1,000 from FECCA and a six months internship with SBS.

Press freedom awards

The Canadian Jounalists for Freedom of Expression International Press Freedom Awards are now open. Entries close on June 30 and results are announced on 1 November 2006.

WAN meeting

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and its Editors Forum are meeting in Moscow 5-7 June 2006. The WAN meeting is being blogged with podcasts and the Forum reported continuously on their Editors Weblog.

Trends in Newsrooms 2006

WAN's Trends in Newsrooms 2006 report is now out and available for purchase online.

Harry Williams award closes

Entries for Queensland's Harry Williams Award close today.

Blog searcher

The new Australian blog search engine Gnoos is now up and operating.

Schork awards close

Entries for the 2006 Kurt Schork Awards for International Journalism close today.

Free handbooks

Journalists interested in improving their coverage of war crimes or politics can download two new handbooks, free of charge, from the Africa program of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting

(IWPR).

Lyneham award closes

Application for the Paul Lyneham Award for excellent in press gallery journalism close today. Application form and conditions here.

NSW Fair Trading awards

Nominations for the 2006 Fair Trading Journalism Awards ae now open and can be made on line at www.fairtradingawards.nsw.gov.au

Innovation Journalism

Papers and proceedings of the The Third Conference on Innovation Journalism at Stanford University, April 5-7, 2006 will be published on the website soon. In the meantime there is a very interesting two hour streaming video of a group of conference experts discussing the future of journalism and news publishing available free on Google Video. It is well worth a view for those with the time.

The May 2006 edition of the journal Media International Australia no 119 is now out. Contents and abstracts here and ordering information here.

Vic legal reporting awards

The Victorian Legal Reporting Awards were announced last night.

SLSQ media awards results

Surf Life Saving Queensland Media Awards announced tonight.

Tasmania media awards

The winners of the Tasmanian Media Awards were announced in Hobart last night.