Category: Features

• May 30, 2014

  Critical Thinking

  “The popular widening of criticism today, where everyone can be a critic, and where every blogger can express an opinion on literature and the arts, has meant the death of the critic and the voice of the informed minority, to be replaced by a proliferation of the voices of mediocrity.”                    …
• May 30, 2014

  The Human Face of Tragedy

  Speaking in front of a half-filled lecture hall of journalism students, Chris Johnston doesn’t quite seems like the battle-hardened reporter whose job has taken him from the burnt-out wreckage of Black Saturday to rusted railways that saw student after student hurl themselves in front of oncoming trains. Soft-spoken and gentle, Chris spends more time looking…