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Another major event to be covered by ASE

This page will include articles by ASE and links to sites and items of interest.

World Youth Day official site

NSW Government World Youth Day Co-ordination Authority

Media releases of interest

Media

• Sydney ’s Daily Telegraph is the WYD official newspaper.  An interesting choice as the “Terror” is better known for typical tabloid coverage of celebrity, sex and other salacious stories along with sport.  You have to dig to find their coverage in the In-depth features section

• The Sydney Morning Herald on the other hand is not an official newspaper for WYD however they have a very informative special section devoted to the event

Media articles of special interest

• The Religion Report looks at WYD - ABC Radio National (podcast and transcript) - With just a few days to go before World Youth Day in Sydney, we ask whether the visiting pilgrims from around the world are going to be presented with a real church or a fantasy church.

• Almost there: the long road to success An in depth analysis of the event and how it came to Sydney by Linda Morris - SMH, 7 Jul

• Who pays up for a loss? It's a secret Investigation by SMH FoI editor, Mathew Moore - SMH, 7 Jul

• Stations of the Cross designer | The Stations of the Cross is one of the biggest events planned for Sydney's World Youth Day. Here's a preview of how it will look with event designer Michael Scott-Mitchell. - SMH 21 Jun

Interviews and articles

Ian Steigrad on World Youth Day - podcast

• Ian Steigrad is the Director, Event Planning & Operations for World Youth Day.
  Ian adressed a gathering of event professionals at an ISES Sydney educational in October 2007

Media releases from WYD

World Youth Day registrations approach 200,000 - 23rd Jun

• Registrations for World Youth Day Sydney 2008 (WYD08) have been rolling in, with just under 200,000 in the system, organisers said today.

World Youth Day 2008 program detailed - 9th May

• Times and details of the major events at World Youth Day Sydney 2008 (WYD08) in July have been confirmed today.