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What Is an Assange? Part 1
This week, I was proud to join the board and help launch the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a new organization which plans on crowd-funding for a...
The Leveson inquiry: Hacked to pieces
A somewhat mediocre report could yet lead to better press rules in Britain. IT IS easy to see why British journalists rank so low in public esteem....
Citizen Journalism Needs a Dose of Journalistic Ethics After Sandy
When Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast, traditional news media sources found it difficult to get reporters into the areas most affected by...
Doorstepping challenge highlights the ethical dilemmas journalists face
Do you think you could second-guess a journalist "doorstepping" the recently-bereaved? More than that, could you break the news to a couple...
Drone journalism set for takeoff – once they're permitted to use our airspace
It was a film that inspired Professor Matt Waite to set up the Drone Journalism Lab. It begins with a man walking across a field, carrying a large...
News too much for the Church of England
The UK-based Church of England has sold out of News Corp (ASX: NWS) after a year of dialogue that failed to generate sufficient corporate governance...
Disrupting the Infamy Game: How to Change the Coverage of Mass Shootings
Anyone remember a fourth-century-BC Greek named Herostratus? He's the guy whose name history has recorded solely on account of his having burned...
Time Travel and Ethical Photojournalism
Our goal in photojournalism is reality. The foundation of ethics in photojournalism is that our photographs of any situation should look the way our...
Margaret Simons 'set the bar too high for herself to reach'
JOURNALISM academic Margaret Simons has failed to meet her own high standards by not disclosing her dealings with the Finkelstein media inquiry,...
The great ethics debate
Gunny bags, chopped body parts and a kidnapping. Were you sick to your stomach when you read the horrific tale of Shamsul Anwar that recently went...
WikiLeaks: The man who kicked the hornet's nest
As the disclosures continue, a number of questions about the way the world has changed are becoming more clearly framed. "Is this the end or...
The shameful attacks on Julian Assange
Julian Assange and Pfc Bradley Manning have done a huge public service by making hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents...
WikiLeaks: Do they have a right to privacy?
The candid diplomatic information revealed by WikiLeaks is embarrassing, but it could also cause real harm. Henry Stimson, a predecessor of Hillary...
Assange: Australian of the year?
How would Mick Young have handled the Julian Assange affair? Famous for defusing difficult subjects with a mild, commonsense one-liner, Mick would...
Gillard 'prejudicing Assange's right to trial'
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been accused of possibly prejudicing any future case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by claiming he is...
Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths
Wikileaks deserves protection, not threats and attacks. In 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In...
Do we really need to know?
You wonder sometimes: how much do we need to know? The Canadian trial of Colonel Russell Williams is getting plenty of play in local print and online...
Afghan reporter arrested for talking to the Taliban
An Afghan reporter was arrested, apparently because of his contacts with Taliban representatives. For local reporters, covering the war is a...
The Afghan War leaks don’t tell us The Truth
Journalists’ increasing reliance on leaks is turning them into passive recipients of information rather than active seekers of truth. So we...
Britain says au revoir to old-fashioned objective journalism
The British Conservative Leader, David Cameron as Obama? Yes, you heard right. White, Eton educated, alumnus of Oxford and member of the old coat...
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