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Press regulatory ‘stick’ so tough it’s licensing #mediareforms

By MARK PEARSON (@journlaw) It’s a great shame when political and commercial vested interests drown out compelling and principled arguments for free expression in this Australian media reform debate....

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RSF names 39 leaders as Press Freedom Predators

3 May 2013 World Press Freedom Day Media release from Reporters Without Borders – RSF (See http://www.rsf.org) Website: http://en.rsf.org/asia,2.html Twitter: @RSFAsiaPacific, @RSF_Asia (中文) Facebook :...

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Press freedom, social media and the citizen: My 2013 UNESCO World Press...

By MARK PEARSON (@journlaw) [This is the full text of my 2013 UNESCO World Press Freedom Day Lecture, delivered at the Pacific Media Centre, AUT University, Auckland on May 3, 2013. Further details,...

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Speech in Timor Leste – top ten media regulation lessons from Australia

By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw I’ve arrived in Dili, Timor Leste, to deliver an address tomorrow (Friday, October 25) to this small nation’s National Congress of Journalists. The congress is working...

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Threatening letters from officialdom chill free expression – @journlaw blog...

By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [With research assistance from RSF interns Toni Mackey and Eve Soliman] Intimidating letters sent by two of Australia’s most senior public servants in recent weeks...

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Why Australians should care about World Press Freedom Day: My blog for No Fibs

By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw CITIZEN journalism site No Fibs has just posted my latest blog on today’s international marking of World Press Freedom Day. It got a nice nod from Paul Barry of ABC’s...

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How the ABC cuts will damage media freedom in the region

By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Thanks to press freedom intern Eve Soliman for her research assistance here.] One of the saddest aspects of Tuesday’s budget cuts to the ABC and SBS and the axing of...

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Maintain the rage: support for Greste heartening, but needs to be escalated....

By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Additional research by journalism student MELANIE WHITING AS Australian journalist Peter Greste languishes in an Egyptian jail just three weeks into his seven year...

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Forthcoming Pacific Journalism Review covers political journalism in the region

By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw The May special edition of Pacific Journalism Review will include revised and refereed papers from the PJR2014 conference held in Auckland last November. I was honoured...

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West Papua – the Indonesian media gag on Australia’s doorstep

Global Day of Action for Access to West Papua unites protestors across 20 cities REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS / REPORTERS SANS FRONTIERES PRESS RELEASE / COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE 04.29.2015 ENG :...

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How reliable are world press freedom indices?

By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw The recent special edition of Pacific Journalism Review included an article I co-authored with Associate Professor Joseph Fernandez (@DrJM_Fernandez) from Curtin...

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Investigative reporter and foreign correspondent Jess Hill (@jessradio) talks...

By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw We were honoured to have investigative reporter and former Middle East correspondent Jess Hill (@jessradio) visit Griffith University to talk about foreign...

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