Australian federal police to tell inquiry it will heed ministerial direction to consider value of a free and open pressThe Australian federal police will make a second submission to federal parliament’s press freedom inquiry as part of efforts to draw a line over controversy triggered by raids on the ABC and the News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst.The new AFP commissioner, Reece Kershaw, has been keen to project a more constructive disposition after raids earlier this year generated negative global headlines about Australia’s creeping surveillance state, and triggered a campaign by the Australian media in support of press freedom, with a rare public display of unanimity among publishers and broadcasters. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2019-11-29 07:15:29 UTC ]
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have appealed to the British government to rethink statutory regulation that threatens more than 300 years of press freedom in the UK. In a letter to Prim ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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