23 January 2023 The Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) has announced the appointment of seven senior staff who will take up new Discipline Lead roles in...
28 October 2022 Graduate Diploma in Radio and Podcasting – apply by 4 November This world-first course combines the expertise of leading visual effects studio Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)...
25 October 2022 Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivered his first Federal Budget tonight, with benefits for broadcasters in what he called "a solid and sensible Budget" for uncertain...
8 September 2022 AFTRS’ third Digital Futures Summit, Audio: Community, Connectivity and Audience ,will be online Thursday 15 September, 1.30 pm – 6.00 pm. As podcasts and audio...
6 September 2022 AFTRS Graduate Diploma in Radio and Podcasting students have launched AFTRS FM, their third pop-up station for the year. AFTRS FM is live around Australia...
26 August 2022 AFTRS Graduate Diploma Radio graduate Sam Maloney is the new full-time Workday Announcer and Promotions Manager for ARN Regional station, Power FM Muswellbrook. Sam has been working with...
10 August 2022 The Australian Film Television and Radio School has today announced the AFTRS Pariya Taherzadeh Radio & Podcasting Scholarship, a new annual scholarship generously supported by...
15 June 2022 Students of the Graduate Diploma in Radio and Podcasting at AFTRS have been busy researching, recording and editing and are now on air for their...
14 April 2022 The latest crop of Graduate Diploma in Radio and Podcast students from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) are live on air for their first...
18 February 2022 At last night’s Digital Futures Summit on The Business of Australia’s Digital Future, the CEO of the AFTRS, Nell Greenwood, introduced a new five-year plan for the...
29 August 2021 Australian Film Televison and Radio School (AFTRS) Graduate Diploma in Radio and Podcasting students have launched their third pop-up station for the year, this time from...
11 August 2021 Aunty Rhonda Dixon, a Darug/Yuin Elder, academic, cultural activist and spokesperson for environmental social justice and human rights issues, is the new Elder in Residence...
27 July 2021 With production booming in Australia and a dynamic professional environment for screen and broadcast creatives that is constantly evolving, AFTRS has commissioned a survey to...
30 June 2021 Former AFTRS stalwart Joan Sharry has passed away. Friend and colleague Annette Nazarov broke the sad news to friends and former AFTRS students. In recent years...
29 June 2021 Netflix will provide $515,000 (USD$400,000) to the Netflix Indigenous Scholarship Fund to be administered by AFTRS. The scholarship will cover a range of initiatives to elevate Indigenous...
10 June 2021 The Australian Film Television and Radio School’s Graduate Diploma in Radio students have been busy researching, recording and editing and are now on air for...
11 May 2021 Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has delivered the federal budget with a focus on "creating jobs and rebuilding the economy," as Australia continues to recover from the...
29 March 2021 “Where 10 or 15 years ago a Content Director/Program Director was more product focussed, today’s Content Leader has become more people focussed, allowing great CDs...
26 March 2021 Day three at #RadiodaysAsia kicked off with a masterclass on The Art of the Interview. The hands-on practical workshop was facilitated by a team from...
22 March 2021 Grant Broadcasters has appointed Barry Keohane as the new Regional Content Director for Victoria and South Australia. Barry says,“Radio is my number one passion, and...
8 March 2021 AFTRS will begin their Radio Fundamentals: Online course that is suitable for complete beginners and community radio practitioners on April 22nd. Participants will learn techniques for...
28 February 2021 Grant Maling, a Bidjigal man from LaPerouse Sydney, and AFTRS Graduate Diploma Radio class 2018, has just been promoted from Power FM Muswellbrook, to Workday Announcer...
4 February 2021 Editor and writer, Maybelle Lin, from New South Wales, is the recipient of this year’s Selwyn Speight Diversity Scholarship, awarded by AFTRS and the ABC....
8 December 2020 AFTRS have launched Talks @ AFTRS Podcast, a series sharing insights and inspiration from industry some of Australia’s top creative practitioners. This 11-episode series brings...
21 November 2020 You might say, ‘but that conference ended three weeks ago!’ And you’d be right. Except that radioinfo has partnered with the CBAA to allow our readers to accces replays of...
29 October 2020 The AFTRS 2020 Graduate Diploma in Radio students are today premiering the narrative audio drama series Viral Games. Inspired by current events, Viral Games imagines an...
11 October 2020 AFTRS Graduate Diploma in Radio students are proud to launch their fourth and final broadcast for 2020, NEXT, which will air nationally on ARN’s iHeartRadio...
30 August 2020 Fyona Smith speaks with Peter Saxon For the past 34 years a diploma from the highly respected radio course at AFTRS would all but guarantee the...
25 August 2020 AFTRS Graduate Diploma in Radio students have launched their third pop-up station of the year. The talk and current affairs-focused station is live around Australia until...
17 August 2020 Dr Romaine Moreton has been appointed to the newly created role of Director, First Nations & Outreach. Con Apostolopoulos has been appointed as Director, Partnerships...