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The implications of the digital revolution for health and media will feature in the public health session of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation’s two-day New News conference, which opens as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival this Friday, (Aug 26).

Session chair and Foundation board member, Bill Birnbauer, will describe an international investigation by the Centre for Public Integrity that he worked on, which examined links between the tobacco industry and criminal organisations in cigarette smuggling.

Other panellists are Reema Rattan and Froncesca Jackson-Webb from The Conversation, and social media whizz Briony Walker, co-founder of the rural mental health Twitter chat group....