In the news
MND Week and Global Day 2010
JMM Communications have provided MND Australia with a list of media coverage during MND Week and Global Day
Summary of media response
MND Week
• Judith Durham interview with Lawrence Money for The Age (Melbourne), 22 April Herald Sun Weekend 1 May, and five ABC radio interviews
• Peter Ruddock – pictorial Herald Sun, article in Take 5 magazine, plus Melbourne suburban papers (Total circulation: 378,268)
• 14 radio interviews (3 VIC, 1 SA, 4 WA, 4 NSW and 1 TAS)
• Local metropolitan and regional print media stories across the country (VIC, NSW, SA, QLD, WA, TAS)
• 27% increase in print media exposure over previous year
The extensive print media coverage generated this year, resulted in a combined exposure (in terms of accumulated circulation figures) in excess of 6,770,946 people up from 4,910,805 last year. This does not include the exposure generated through radio interviews.
Global Day
Media coverage resulted in a combined exposure (in terms of accumulated circulation figures) in excess of 342,680 people, compared with a similar figure of 339, 365 people last year.
Global Day walk to d'feet MND made the front page of the Canberra Times - online and print!
Prevention Magagazine online - Meet two amazing women affected by motor nerone disease
ABC Television 1/3/10
MND Australia patron Judith Durham talked about her childhood, her years with The Seekers and the group's reunion, her life with husband Ron Edgeworth, her role as patron of the Motor Neurone Disease Association, her health and diet and her work as a composer on ABC TV's ‘Talking Heads' program in March.
You can view the episode online by visiting http://www.abc.net.au/tv/talkingheads/video/.
2GB radio 1/9/09
Ray Hadley 2GB talked to Peter Fuller about living with MND
MND Week and Global Day 2009
JMM Communications have provided MND Australia with a list of the media coverage during MND Week and Global Day. Click here to view.
Links to some of the major stories
Australian researchers say they're one step closer to unravelling motor neuron disease, and a new way to treat it. To view the ABC news story on research being conducted at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute click here.
More information on the clinical trial mentioned visit the Research - In Australia page
May edition of New Idea article on a young mother who is living with MND
In addition to media coverage the Professor Stephen Hawking community service announcement (CSA) was shown on a number of channels during MND Week and up to Global Day. Channel 10 Melbourne ran the CSA for 6 weeks from 1 July 2009.
In 2008
7/5/08
ABC Health & Wellbeing have published a new fact file on motor neurone disease, to coincide with MND Week 2008.
http://www.abc.net.au/health/library/stories/2008/05/06/2236692.htm
4/5/08
ABC Radio interview
Motor Neurone Disease Australia president Ralph Warren says more money is needed to help people with the illness live a better life.
http://abcscience.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/04/2234777.htm
26/4/08
The Weekend Australian Health section reports on the recent TDP-43 discovery, MND research and the care people with MND need to help them live better for longer.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23593855-23289,00.html
3/3/08
Sky news report on TDP-43 discovery
8/11/04
ABC Radio
The Health Report presents personal stories of three people living with Motor Neurone Disease.
