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Q&A producer and First Dog On The Moon join panel for debate on Twitter’s impact on TV

Tim Burrowes

May 19, 2011 2:35

First Dog on The Moon, Crikey

Amanda Collinge, Q&A

Steven Murphy, Fremantle

Magdalena Roze The Weather Channel

TV makers and media commentators are to debate the impact of Twitter on program making at next month’s Mumbrella360 conference.

Panellists for the #TVTwitter session are:

Amanda Collinge, series producer of the ABC’s political debate program Q&A. The #qanda hashtag is regularly a top trending topic on Twitter during the show’s broadcast with tweets also displayed on screen.
Steven Murphy, Communications manager, FremantleMedia Australia. The production company’s recent shows have included Masterchef, Australia’s Got Talent and the rapidly cancelled Ben Elton Live From Planet Earth which saw the comedian partly blame adverse comment on Twitter for negative sentiment around the show. He tweets as @StMurphy.
Andrew Marlton, the cartoonist behind Crikey’s acclaimed First Dog on the Moon daily cartoon. He tweets as @firstdogonmoon

Druitt

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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Amanda Collinge First Dog on the Moon Kym Druitt Magdalena Roze Mumbrella360 social media Steven Murphy Twitter

5 COMMENTS

Amos Keeto 19 May 11

Thank Christ @firstdogonmoon put some clothes on.

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Logic 19 May 11

What can first dog on the moon offer?? Will he be live drawing?

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Radio Tehran 19 May 11

#Dwts

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Mike 20 May 11

is this meant to be a panel of experts?!!

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Thanks for the laugh 23 May 11

Sounds like another lame attempt to paint Twitter users as anything more than vapid narcissists. News and current affairs shows have been circling the drain for a number of years now, and when a Twitter comment from some numpty is now seen as news feed, well you know that the lunatics are running the asylum. There is nothing to be gained by giving the idiots of Twitter a voice (or validity).

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