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Covering Climate Now: The Citizen joins international reporting project

Words by The Citizen Team

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Diseased and driven out of vanishing habitat, how much more can our koalas bear?

Words by Claire Capel-Stanley

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DISPOSABLE: ‘Freegans’ dive for dinner in the bins

Audio report by Danielle O’Neal Inger Kviseth Jingjie Liu Duolin Li

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Concerns the power of Indigenous programs to save species is being short changed

Words and pictures by Jordyn Beazley

Society

As climate change bites, farmers sow seeds for a new agricultural era

Words by Jack Banister

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Is Artificial Intelligence going to put journalists out of their jobs?

Audio by Else Kennedy Shujing Cai

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Community grapples with planning for a climate changed future

Words and pictures by Claire Capel-Stanley

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Centre for Advancing Journalism students learn how to fly a drone

Video By Charlotte Grieve

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3010: Researcher makes lung cancer breakthrough

Video by Benjamin Silvester

and Jakeb Fair

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Polio’s last stand: Citizen editor shortlisted for Eureka Prize

Produced by The Citizen Team

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The herd instinct may become a virtual reality

Words by Danielle O’Neal

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Ready for liftoff, and a future in Australia’s fired-up space program

Audio report by Nicole de Souza

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Citizen editor wins 2017 Quill Award

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Tapping a vein: Good blood, bad blood, lifeblood

Audio documentary by The Citizen Team

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Contemplating the real cost of that shiny new phone

Words by Ayeesha Cain

Science

The driverless technology promising to reshape the way we live

Words by Daniel Connell

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About The Citizen

THE CITIZEN is a publication of the Centre for Advancing Journalism. It has several aims. Foremost, it is a teaching tool that showcases the work of the students in the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism and Master of International Journalism programs, giving them real-world experience in working for publication and to deadline. Find out more →

  • Editor: Jo Chandler
  • Reporter: Jack Banister
  • Audio & Video editor: Louisa Lim
  • Data editor: Craig Butt
  • Editor-In-Chief: Andrew Dodd
  • Business editor: Lucy Smy
Winner — BEST PUBLICATION 2016 Ossie Awards

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