Those who spread misinformation are exploiting people’s lack of media literacy. These tools from journalism can help you fact-check what you read.
- Professor of Journalism and Social Media, Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Griffith University
In the midst of international health and financial crises, how do we stay informed while maintaining mental wellness and productivity?
Australia’s metadata laws offer weak protection to journalists, but they don’t offer any to academics conducting confidential interviews.
Open justice is in contest with other rights as the Northern Territory considers a bill to ban the media from juvenile court cases.
George Pell’s current committal hearing engages the principle of ‘open justice’ and some of its most important exceptions.
Four decades on, in a digital era of surveillance and data storage, Watergate remains a useful yardstick for assessing the value of source confidentiality.
It is hard to inquire about a suppression order you do not know exists because discussion of its existence and contents has been suppressed.
I am reluctant to give more ammunition to Pacific leaders who regard Australia as some kind of exemplar in media freedom – in this case a bad example. On the other hand, truths have to be told: in Australia…
The Abbott government’s latest tranches of national security and counter-terrorism laws represent the greatest attack on the Fourth Estate function of journalism in the modern era. They are worse than…
It is a sad day when senior political figures steal a journalist’s recording device and destroy its contents, as we have been told happened at this year’s Victorian Labor Party conference. But it is an…
It is just a week since the Gillard government withdrew the four media reform bills for which it could not garner the necessary support from the crossbench MPs. The proposal that concerned me most as a…
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. First, I declare my own interest…
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