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....
View ArticleRSF 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 :...
View ArticlePress 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,...
View ArticleSpeech 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...
View ArticleThreatening 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleMaintain 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...
View ArticleForthcoming 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...
View ArticleWest 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 :...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleInvestigative 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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