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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....
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...
Prissy shrieks of fear and loathing
Something to know about Alan Jones - the key thing, really - is that he's not all that bright. Far from it. Despite the artfully constructed...
The ultimate dilemma - freedom to preach v freedom of speech
Jenna Price claims to be just an ''ordinary'' person who is ''sick of the way that Alan Jones speaks to us and tries to whip...
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...
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...
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...
Why the News of the World was right to expose the Duchess of York
After two stories built around subterfuge without a genuine public interest (John Higgins and Lord Triesman) comes a third that, on balance,...
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