Category: Media Matters

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The Australian government has released an Issues Paper in relation to its planned inquiry into the media … It will embrace freedom of the press, the freedom of those “attacked” to respond, standards for media outlets and journalists, regulation and complaints mechanisms … more

The scandal engulfing News International, British politics and Scotland Yard also has leeched into the wide brown land … Inquiries abound … Government seizes the opportunity to float a privacy law…Richard Ackland reports … more

A very Sydney story: the politician, his son, the judge, the silk, a gay sauna, Compass with Geraldine Doogue and hotel pokie licences … Seven savvy media lawyers point out the pitfalls of publication … more

Only in California … Now those who commission photographs of celebrities as well as the paparazzi themselves will be liable for hefty invasion of privacy penalties, thanks to The Terminator … Michael Cameron reports … more

The United Kingdom recently released details of its draft libel reform bill and it seems not everyone is enthusiastic … Tom Westbrook canvasses the proposed changes and the reactions to them … more

Liberal Senator Brandis still carrying on about David Hicks … The shadow AG’s big policy gesture: confiscate the proceeds of Hicks’ book … But is this possible? … Richard Ackland investigates … more

Whatever happened to the protection of journalists’ sources legislation, whistleblower protection laws, the new regime for access to court information and the national roll out of suppression and non-publication orders legislation? Media lawyer Leanne O’Donnell reports … more

Everybody’s talking about it…and the normal rules don’t seem to apply. Richard Ackland reviews the wild week that was all about The Australian’s editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell threatening to sue journalism academic Julie Posetti over a tweet … more

The Australian and its editor seek an injunction against the finalisation and tabling of a police integrity report into leaks concerning a terror raid … Newspaper and staff criticised … Ethics of newspapers seeking injunctions … Richard Ackland reports … more

Newer than Tom Wolfe’s New Journalism … The forces that are sending good newspapers towards the ditch are also forging changes to what we once understood to be “journalism” … Where does leave the poor old reptile of the press? … Richard Ackland investigates … more

News rooms out of control … Proprietors in denial … Media regulators flunking … The Prime Minister wants a debate about media ethics in Australia … Richard Ackland does his bit to kick it off … more