My Online Opinion piece explains Australia’s fall to #30 in RSF World Press...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw The international media freedom group Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF – Reporters Without Borders) has released its 2011-12 World Press Freedom Index and Australia has...
View ArticleDon’t shoot the messenger #RSF #UN #censorship
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Don’t shoot the messenger (My closing address to Brisbane Model United Nations conference, Queensland Conservatorium, 15 April 2012) ——— What a wonderful concept this...
View ArticleAny Australian #privacy tort must feature strong free expression protections
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance has released its latest annual press freedom report – Kicking at the Cornerstone of Democracy – with some excellent articles...
View ArticleGillard government should step carefully with its push for privacy tort
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw A tort of privacy is on the agenda again, with the Gillard Government purportedly considering enacting such a right. West Australian lawyer Ainslie Van Onselen has...
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 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 ArticleMemo #RSF Paris: Australian media freedom at risk from anti-terror laws
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Research assistance from media freedom intern Jasmine Lincoln] Memo to: Benjamin Ismail, Bureau Asie-Pacifique, Reporters sans frontiers (RSF – Reporters Without...
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