Radio, podcasts, television and documentaries
Dr Karl’s Shirtloads of Science podcast, “Wikipedia Part Two with Dr. Heather Ford“ July 5, 2025
Dr Karl’s Shirtloads of Science podcast, “Wikipedia: The Power and the Pitfalls Part One with Dr. Heather Ford (434)“ June 28, 2025
Time For Trust podcast (ep. 10), “Dr Heather Ford on how to build AI systems we can trust” with Terry Flew,
SBS News, interviewed and quoted in, “Crackdown on social media giants to regulate spaces” by Sam Dover, 23 February 2023.
“Reimagining the Internet” podcast, interviewed by Ethan Zuckerman, 7 December 2021.
ABC Radio National, Saturday Extra, interviewed by Geraldine Doogue, “Wikipedia turns 20″, 13 March 2021.
2SER Radio, Start Making Sense, interviewed by Miles Herbert, “The battle for Wikipedia” 6 March 2021.
ABC News Radio, interviewed by Glen Lauder “Facebook targets “fake news“”, 1 October 2020.
Think Digital Futures podcast, interview “The Rising Trend of ‘Slacktivism’“, 18 September 2020.
BBC Click and BBC News, interviewed in “Wikipedia Wars?” (broadcast) 5 October 2019.
BBC World Service, Weekend Programme, “Interview with Heather Ford”. 10 August, 2014.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0244jcj
Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Österreich. “matrix – computer & neue medien”. 2 September, 2012. http://oe1.orf.at/programm/311886
Uhuru Productions. “You Chuse” documentary directed by Rehad Desai. http://vimeo.com/22381637
ClassicFM, The Internet Economy. “Interview with Heather Ford”. 15, 22 January, 2010
Interworld Radio. “Interview: Governments try to control the Internet”. 2 September, 2003.
Newspapers and magazines
ABC News, ‘Can Wikipedia Survive the Rise of AI and Trump?” Rhiannon Stevens, 11 May ,20215
Information Age, ‘Really frustrating’: Aussie Wikipedia editors burn out: New study highlights disagreements, racism, and ‘edit wars’ November 11, 2024
Cosmos Magazine, The Big Encyclopedia: How does Wikipedia see Australia? November 4, 2024
InnovationAus.com, Australia’s ‘sanitised’ history powering AI October 28, 2024
CNET News, interviewed and quoted in, “Are we prepared for a world without Google search?” by Jackson Ryan, 22 February 2023.
Slate Magazine, interviewed and quoted in, “Should Chat GPT be used to write Wikipedia articles?” by Stephen Harrison, 12 January 2023.
Prospect Magazine, interviewed by Ethan Zuckerman, “How Wikipedia gets to decide what’s true online“, 3 March 2022.
Der Welt, interviewed and quoted in “Wikipedia. Lügen mit System” Christina Brause, 22 January 2020.
BBC News, interviewed for “China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits” (print) 5 October 2019.
Science News, interviewed and quoted in “Wikipedia has become a science reference source even though scientists don’t cite it” by Bethany Brookshire. 5 February 2018.
The New Scientist, quoted in ‘Free for all: Lifting the lid on the Wikipedia crisis‘ by Jim Giles. 17 April 2013.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829122.200-free-for-all-lifting-the-lid-on-a-wikipedia-crisis.html
The Times Online. “Heather Ford speaks about iCommons”. 20 April 2007. http://www.timeslive.co.za
Business Day. “Creative licence lets artists have their way with cyberspace”. 3 June, 2005.
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