Media
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Penny Wong’s comments dampen hopes for Assange’s release
London: Foreign Minister Penny Wong says the rule of law must be applied to Julian Assange, dampening hopes that her government…
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Access to Journalism Is a Human Right
But information belongs to us. Maria Bustillos The Nation In 1974, when the Irish statesman and humanitarian Seán MacBride was…
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Domestic violence media coverage protects, excuses perpetrators, Newcastle University researcher says
In just one morning in the Warrnambool Magistrates’ Court, south-west of Melbourne, Magistrate Franz Holzer presided over half a dozen…
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Ethnic community media can play a key role in a crisis – but it needs our support
The report found most television news and current affairs presenters on major Australian free-to-air networks are Anglo-Celtic. Authors The Conversation…
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US officials concern about world press freedoms while assaulting them
I will never get used to living in a world where our rulers will openly imprison a journalist for telling…
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Denying trafficking not the way to protect the Asylum system
Hannah Dickinson from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has penned an article in this Journal that is full of distraction and…
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No such thing as an objective journalist: Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix
I feel like we haven’t been talking enough about the fact that US government agencies were just caught intimately collaborating with…
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Protect Freedom of Expression in Mali
Intimidation of Journalists, Critics Continues. Aoife Croucher HRW In Mali, media professionals are facing harassment and intimidation over their real…
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Is the global decline in democracy linked to social media?
Here are two common ways of thinking about democracy in the online era. Authors The Conversation First, the internet is…
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Journalist in Sweden spied on by Turkish intelligence, private photos leaked to gov’t media
The authoritarian regime of Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ran surveillance on a critical journalist who lives in Sweden, published…
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How Ukraine is winning the social media war
Ukrainian counter-offensives continue to make progress, while Russian forces are still pressing elsewhere. Paul Adams BBC But on the internet,…
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Clickbait extremism, mass shootings, and the assault on democracy – time for a rethink of social media?
They profited from livestreamed video as rioters stormed the Capitol Building. Shirley Leitch The Conversation They profited from the incendiary…
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Bravery, insight and simmering fury: Australian female correspondents on speaking truth to power
It never has. Sue Joseph The Conversation I am always far more interested in elegantly rendered content. Whether it’s written…
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I Wish My Friend Could Have Read Her Own Obituary
She died early last Wednesday, but if she’d held on a few more hours, I like to imagine that she…
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Lachlan Murdoch launches defamation proceedings against Crikey
News Corp co-chairman Lachlan Murdoch has filed defamation proceedings against Crikey over an article naming his family as “unindicted co-conspirators” of former…
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Belling the Cats
In his seminal 1999 book What are Journalists For? Nicholas Karides NYU professor Jay Rosen pointed to a plaque at the…
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