JOURNALISM students and early-career practitioners are encouraged to attend the Rural Press Club’s Networking Night featuring the founders of satirical news site, The Betoota Advocate.
Attendees to the the event on March 16 will hear first hand how Errol Parker (Editor-at-large) and Clancy Overell (Editor) went from humble beginnings to the brains behind the digital news sensation.
The Betoota Advocate claims to be ‘Australia’s oldest newspaper’ and published from the far south west Queensland town of Betoota (population 0).
Since venturing online in 2014, it has quickly become a player in online 'news' and entertainment, punching far above its weight, given not a word of it is true and it was launched by three young blokes with not much more than a laptop and a distinctively larrikin Aussie humour.
In the Advocate’s rise to prominence, several of its so-called 'news' stories have been reported as fact by major news services. Most notably, the Advocate made national headlines when its article on a Sydney parking cop who accidentally booked himself was reported as fact on Nine Network’s Weekend Today in November 2014.
What: Networking Night and The Betoota Advocate
Who: The Betoota boys
When: Thursday 16 March - function from 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Where: The Charming Squire, 3/133 Grey St, South Brisbane
Cost: Members $65 per person
Ticket Price includes finger food and an introductory drink.
For more visit ruralpressclub.com.au/events
