Australia wins nail-biting ODI series

As Australia's summer of cricket wraps up for the 2011/12 season, Australia capped off a successful Commonwealth Bank one-day series campaign with a win over Sri Lanka in the third and deciding final. After disposing of India throughout the regular rounds of the tournament, the tri-angular series moved into the finals phase with Australia and Sri Lanka to do battle in a best of 3, winner takes all competition. 


After leveling the final series one a piece in the previous match, and with Australia's captain (Michael Clarke) out due to injury, a fired up Sri Lankan outfit sent Australia in to bat on a flat Adelaide pitch. Australia got off to a slow but solid start with a tight bowling display by the tourists, who had put Australia under pressure early. 


As Australia looked to push forward from a strong batting platform, built by openers Warner (48) and Wade (49), disaster struck! In a dramatic turn of events, Sri Lanka's bowlers ripped through a frail Australian middle order taking 5/36 from 12 overs in a clinical bowling display.


With such a promising start the Australian innings never exploded and eventually the hosts were bowled out for a miserly 231, a score that seemed well below par on such a flat pitch. 


Knowing only that a loss would provide the Sri Lankans with a series win, the Australian unit had to re-group and take early wickets if they were any chance to snare a series victory and they did just that. As Lee and Mckay unleashed a fearsome bowling display that had the tourists 4/53 in the 10 over, it looked as if the game was all but over. But not for the first time in this series the Sri Lankans were able to show a dogged fighting quality that put them back in the match. 


With 6 overs to go, the tourists needed a run a ball with only 3 wickets in hand but as Mckay was introduced back into the attack, the hopes of the tourists faded as he snared the final 3 wickets to leave the Sri Lankans 16 runs short. Mckay finished the match with figures of 5/28 off 9.5 overs and a well deserved man of the match award.


In what was a memorable win for the Australian cricket team, it was also a fantastic way to end Australia's summer of cricket. The team fly out to the Caribbean in the following weeks for a series against old rivals, the West Indies, so stay posted for more news.

Lecture 1 - Introduction to Journalism and Communication

So finally the university semester has started and JOUR1111 has been the best subject so far! After this weeks lecture, we were introduced to the course coordinator Dr Bruce Redman and the 3 tutors,  Ms Carmel Rooney, Ms Marie M’balla-ndi and ms Ali Rae, who all seem really nice.

Dr Redman began the lecture with several quotes from various people involved in the field of Journalism. One quote in particular caught my attention from Phillip Graham, a publisher for the Washington Post, who stated that “Journalism is the first rough draft of history” (Phillip Graham). This quote was really interesting because to me it indicated how intrinsically connected Journalism is to our ever-evolving society. 

From there, we covered the challenges and problems that is facing Journalism today, including Technology and the death of newspapers, Paywalls/social media, Public perception of journalists, User generator content and News as entertainment.

Dr Redman proceeded with more formalities by outlining the assessment and scope of topics for Journalism and Communication which included....

• Storytelling
• Impact of the web
• Commercial media
• Public media
• Agenda setting
• News values
• Political
• Economy
• Ethics

In closing, we were left with the words “You are the journalist” which has made me very curious for what we have in store next week and for the rest of the course.

Hoo roo

Stewy

Introduction...

G'day everyone, my name is Stewart Fleming and welcome to my JOUR1111 blog. Before I go on, i'll give you a bit of a background on me. I was born on the 23 of August 1993 and attended Buranda Primary School and Brisbane Grammar School. 


Throughout my childhood, i developed an almost obsessive addiction to sport and it is something that i am VERY passionate about. Most recently, I joined the Army in 2011 before attending university at UQ and am now studying Social Sciences. 


So where does Journalism fit into all of this? Well, to be honest i dont really know. Like most people my age,  I'm still very much unsure of what I want to do when I'm older, so for now it's all about trying different subjects to see what i like the look of. Stay posted for more news and information in the following weeks! 


Hoo roo
Stewy