Journalists, media organisations and industry bodies have long complained about the number of suppression orders...

This article draws upon historical and contemporary data to attempt to identify key issues in...

Australian and New Zealand journalism programmes report a disproportionate number of female students and the...

Australian journalism programs have long reported a disproportionate number of female students and the industry...

Australia’s media organisations have joined forces to combat a level of suppression and censorship that...

In 2007, Australia was rated by two international media bodies as well down the chain...

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Government media relations is deserving of serious study because it sits at the interface...

The ancient charge of “scandalising the court” (publications aiming at lowering the authority of the...

This paper reports on a study using grounded theory methodology to track the contexts in...

Australia introduced near-uniform defamation laws in 2006, replacing a complex array of laws in its...

For some decades Australia has positioned itself as an exemplar of media freedom in the...

This article reviews some of the main anti-terrorism laws in Australia and New Zealand and...

Regulators and the courts are increasing privacy constraints upon the news media. Journalists and editors...

Regulators and the courts are increasing privacy constraints upon the news media. Journalists and editors...

The Crime and Misconduct Commission of Queensland is conducting an inquiry into the move by...

Reviews two books. Journalism Ethics: Arguments and Cases, by Martin Hirst and Roger Patching and...

Australia and Denmark have differing legal systems and, apart from a recent royal wedding, very...

Justice Ian Callinan, appointed to the Australian High Court in 1998, challenged the rhetoric on...

This article explores ways of building the topics of press freedom and open justice into...

They might be mortal enemies in day to day corporate warfare, but there is one...

Several models of media regulation have developed in Australia, from the Australian Broadcasting Authority's rarely...

The High Court decision in the landmark Dow Jones v. Gutnick defamation case in December...

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Whether or not the Americans match their rhetoric on First Amendment rights with ongoing...

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They might be mortal enemies in day to day corporate warfare, but there is one...

During 2002 Bond University's Centre for New Media Research and Education (CNMRE) and the Positive...

In May 2001 the Australian Broadcasting Authority released the authors' report titled Sources of News...

Not long after the Australian Broadcasting Authority announced its inquiry into radio station 2UE over...

The paper relates a case study in Donald Schön’s reflective practice approach to professional education....

This work uses grounded theory methodology to develop a theory of the Internet’s influences upon...

This paper presents and discusses the results of a grounded theory study of the implications...

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Almost all tertiary journalism courses offer media law components in their curricula. It is...

[Extract]: I believe the needs of students should be central to any debate over quality...

The study presented in this article looks at the reporting of eight issues of the...

[Extract]: There is a smorgasbord of career opportunities out there for young journalists who see...

[Extract] Visualise a community where the daily news is delivered in text form via personal...

[Extract] Defamation Bills have been tabled in the parliaments of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria...

This article reports the results of a 1987 study by a research team from Darling...

Mark Pearson's widely used introduction to media law takes a journalist's perspective. Writing in a...

Stage One of the Australian Broadcasting Authority’s (ABA’s) Sources of News and Current Affairs project,...

Like many offices, news rooms can be cold and heartless places, staffed by disillusioned people...

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Australia is about as far from Oxford as you can get, so why...

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It is time for those who genuinely believe in the value of press...

This paper analyses postings over a week-long period to two electronic discussion lists to position...

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I’m a great fan of newspapers. My whole career has been built upon...

This article analyses postings over a week-long period to two electronic discussion lists to position...

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While the journalists and the employers want an improvement in work-based skills as...

This dissertation argues that the scope and substance of the celebration of Australia Day this...