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Truth, Lies and Media

Truth, Lies and Media gives you a unique inside take on Australia’s media. Your hosts  Nicole Chvastek and Denis Muller cut through to the politics driving the media and expose the latest spin and cock-ups.  
 Nicole Chvastek 
 
Nicole Chvastek is a highly regarded journalist and producer with a wealth of experience across Australian radio and television. Nicole trained at the ABC as a cadet and later returned there as an evening news reporter and anchor on ABC TV Asia Pacific. On the way through she covered big breaking news stories as a TV journalist for the Seven Network and was senior producer for the award-winning ABC Radio Jon Faine Mornings show. 
Most recently, Nicole hosted the ABC’s daily Statewide Drive radio program, gaining a loyal audience of listeners, drawn to her informed approach and warm style. Nicole is an advisory board member at the Centre for Advancing Journalism, Melbourne University. 
 
Dr Denis Muller 
 

Denis Muller has a distinguished career as a senior staff journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald, The Times (London) and The Age. His roles included assistant editor at the Sydney Morning Herald and associate editor at the Age 

 

Denis worked closely with Irving Saulwick, one of Australia’s leading public opinion pollsters before establishing his own research consultancy. He later completed a doctoral thesis on media ethics and accountability, and was appointed a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Melbourne where he has taught in the Public Policy program since 1997.

 

He has also taught research methodology at RMIT University, teaches defamation law to practising journalists through the Communication Law Centre is and senior lecturer in the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.