Barrister and co-author Mark Polden chats with @journlaw on #defamation...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Defamation laws can be intimidating for journalists, bloggers and other professional communicators. The key, according to barrister Mark Polden, is in researching and...
View ArticleAustralian Press Council Chair Julian Disney with @journlaw
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw I recently had the chance to interview Australian Press Council chair Professor Julian Disney on the role and direction of the Council. In this interview he discusses...
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 ArticleNew Australian Press Council standards start August 1
Guest report from JASMINE LINCOLN, Griffith University media freedom intern THE Australian Press Council (APC) has released its new Statement of General Principles as part of its Standards Project...
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...
View ArticleThe lowdown on the data telcos, search engines and social media platforms...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Research assistance from media freedom intern Jasmine Lincoln] Just as the Australian Government pushes for tougher obligations on telecommunications and Internet...
View ArticleSymposia on Drones and the Media to be hosted by @GUCulturalResea,...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw We are honoured to be hosting acclaimed international media law expert Dr David Goldberg for two seminars examining the law and ethics of media use of drones early next...
View ArticleResponsible media use of drones should be exempted from laws: Goldberg #G20Griff
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Drones – unmanned aerial vehicles – raise a host of legal and ethical issues but responsible journalism should be exempted from many legal restrictions, according to...
View ArticleInternational studies point to best practice for reporting Islam and stories...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Three key international studies counsel journalists to reflect carefully on their practice when they are reporting news and issues involving Islam and people who follow...
View ArticlePlease complete this survey on journalists’ and bloggers’ source protection...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Calling all journalists, bloggers, media law geeks and students: journalists and whistleblowers internationally need your help by completing this global...
View ArticleIdentification error leads to a useful case for teaching the basic elements...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [research assistance from Virginia Leighton-Jackson] The morphed identification of an innocent octogenarian tailor and his alleged gun-running son produces a useful...
View ArticleLessons for us all in $300k Yahoo!7 fine for contempt [updated]
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Most Australian followers of this blog will have seen in the news that Yahoo!7 has been fined $300,000 for sub judice contempt over a publication which triggered the...
View ArticleDEFAMATION CASE UPDATE: Zoef v Nationwide News Pty Ltd – identification and...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw CASE UPDATE: Zoef v Nationwide News Pty Ltd – 2015, 2016 and 2017 I blogged in 2016 about a case where the mistaken identification of an innocent octogenarian tailor in...
View ArticleChanges to drone laws force a rethink of their risks
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Much has changed in the regulatory landscape in the two years since Scottish drones expert Dr David Goldberg and the ABC’s Mark Corcoran addressed a Griffith University...
View ArticleMental health and the media: a comparative case study in open justice
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Our article comparing Australian and UK restrictions on the reporting of forensic mental health cases has appeared in the leading journal in the field, the Journal of...
View ArticleINFORRM a highly recommended resource for journalists and media law students...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Congratulations to UK-based media law blog INFORRM (INternational Forum for Responsible Media) on reaching an impressive 4 million hits since it started seven years...
View ArticleReporting upon forensic mental health cases and identifying patients
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw What are the key policy factors influencing courts and tribunals attempting to balance open justice against other rights and interests in newsworthy cases involving...
View ArticleRare victory for truth defence in vocational education case – #MLGriff
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw CASE REPORT: Charan v Nationwide News Pty Ltd [2018] VSC 3 The Australian newspaper had a rare victory using the truth (or justification) defence to defamation in a...
View ArticleArticle 10 expert discusses free expression as a human right #MLGriff
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw It was a pleasure hosting two esteemed European media and law colleagues over summer. Recently retired colleagues Emeritus Professor Dirk Voorhoof (University of Ghent)...
View ArticleDefamation research and social media mean it’s time to consider reform
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw The Sydney Morning Herald recently published my commentary welcoming the NSW Government’s rethink of defamation law in the light of recent research showing a large...
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