HDA Media Workshop 2024

Thank you to our HDA Ambassador Mike Smithson from 7NEWS who delivered our HDA Media Training Workshop last week to a group of our HDA Scholars and PhD student members.

Mike Smithson is news presenter and chief reporter at Channel 7 Adelaide. He has more than four decades experience in newspaper and television news gathering in Adelaide and internationally.

“I came away from the workshop with a new confidence in how to handle myself when being interviewed by the media. It was a very informative afternoon and I look forward to putting what I have learnt into practice in the future”.

“Mike gave some great general advice in the session, particularly related to ensuring that there is adequate time to prepare for interviews. I found the suggestions around structuring a key message particularly useful”.

“The media training was well delivered with a good mix of theory and practice, proceeding at an excellent pace that provided ample opportunities for interaction and engagement. We received valuable information, and it was a fantastic learning experience”.

“I found the workshop very useful. Mike is well versed in the art of the interview. I was lucky enough to be picked to have a mock interview which was a very useful experience”.

Our attendees, pictured l to r, Bereket Menota (University of Adelaide), Lisa Callahan (Flinders University), Yohannes Efa (UniSA), Jessica Williamson (Flinders University), Jun Ho (UniSA), Rachel Lever (UniSA), Steve Kinsey-Trotman (University of Adelaide) and Zoe Herriman (University of Adelaide) with Mike Smithson.