A rally in support of ABC journalist Stan Grant in Sydney.
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Journalism only exists to serve the public, and every serious journalist feels this in their bones, just as we all know how often we fall short.
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Stan Grant’s new book, The Queen is Dead, is revealing in terms of his decision to step down from public life. ‘I have been reminded what it is to come from the other side of history,’ he writes.
Stan Grant, a Wiradjuri man, journalist and author.
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Racist abuse has forced Wiradjuri journalist, author and public figure Stan Grant to step away from the media. New research shows other diverse journalists have had similar experiences.
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Fact-checking is important, but the contents need to be more visual to be able to attract more public audiences.
Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos, second from left, with members of his legal team leaving the courthouse after a settlement with Fox News on April 18, 2023, in Wilmington, Del.
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Dominion’s settlement of its defamation suit against Fox News provided a solution for Dominion – but it did nothing to help journalism.
Fox News Host Tucker Carlson speaks during the 2022 Fox Nation Patriot Awards on Nov. 17, 2022, in Hollywood, Fla.
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Tucker Carlson and his employer, Fox News, had an incredible understanding of what their audience wants: a kind of authenticity that is not genuine but instead manipulative.
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Calling media organisations ‘government-funded’ risks turning people away from reliable sources of information.
The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich faces up to 20 years behind bars on espionage charges.
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A scholar of Russia’s legal code explains the case against the Wall Street Journal reporter accused of espionage.
Election workers in Detroit test their equipment made by Dominion Voting Systems in August 2022.
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It’s far easier to throw around accusations of damage to one’s reputation than it is to actually prove it in court. A journalism scholar explains the criteria that must be met.
Journalists take cover during March 2023 protests in Kenya.
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There is a growing public wariness about the performance of the media, which are increasingly accused of being partisan.
Detained: Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal.
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If truth is the first casualty of war, so are the journalists who risk their lives to report it.
There are no standards for what it takes to be a journalist.
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A news organization doesn’t have to publish or broadcast the facts or the truth. And there are no standardized requirements to be a journalist.
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Instead of simply applauding nudges, journalists should critically assess when and why governments use this tool.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich being taken into custody on March 30, 2023.
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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is far from the first American journalist to be accused of spying, a media historian explains.
Devon Sanders, a statehouse reporter and student at the Lousiana State University Manship School of Mass Communication, interviewed State Rep. Katrina Jackson in 2018.
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Where regular reporters have disappeared, university-led statehouse reporting programs have stepped in.
Bob Hawke and Anthony Albanese at the launch of the biography Albanese: Telling It Straight, Parliament House, Canberra, September 2016.
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Chris Wallace’s book Political Lives entertains, but also does something far more valuable: it lights up the present by illuminating the past.
Russian rhetoric about Ukraine echoes language used in the second world war by the Soviets seeking to stem independence movements. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin insisted on Ukraine getting a separate vote to the USSR at the United Nations, even though it wasn’t an independent state.
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Putin’s rhetoric over Ukraine has roots in the end of the second world war, attitudes explained by Paul Winterton, a British journalist at the time.
Can public radio fill the hole left by the decline of local news outlets?
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The local news crisis is more than a problem of shuttered newsrooms and laid-off journalists. It’s a democracy crisis. And public radio can help fix it. But it needs more money and staff to do that.
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The crisis has highlighted unresolved questions about the role of journalism in the age of social media.
Christopher Hitchens.
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Many journalists were wrong about the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but Christopher Hitchens never admitted his mistake.