Dehaan is a weedy James Dean – Robert Pattinson has all the energy.
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Films like this are really just for mavens, academics and Twilight fans who want to stare at Pattinson’s profile.
Journalist Peter Greste lays a wreath at the War Correspondents Memorial in Canberra.
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A memorial unveiled in Canberra this week honours the work of Australian war correspondents, but a new Pentagon “Law of War” manual identifies journalists in conflict zones as “spies and belligerents”.
Pull the other one.
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Our journalism expert explains how to tell fact from fiction.
Journalists follow young refugees at the Hungarian border.
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Objectivity and balance aren’t enough when it comes to teaching journalists about ethics.
Peter Dutton claimed that journalists should be ‘objective reporters of the news’.
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Journalists commonly make three errors when it comes to speaking about objectivity in their craft.
For anyone interested in the growth of the The Conversation’s unique form of global journalism there has been some interesting coverage this week.
Greenpeace is seeking to use investigative reporters to supplement its advocacy efforts.
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NGO journalists can cover issues that go underreported by cash-strapped newsrooms. But are they more likely to violate journalistic principles?
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Journalists can go where diplomats can’t: but that doesn’t make it easy.
Outside the Keleti railway station in Budapest, Hungary.
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It’s not just calling refugees “migrants” that dehumanises them – it’s talking about them as if they’re numbers.
Don’t even think about reporting this: police in Turkey.
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By arresting foreign reporters in its turbulent south-east, Turkey sent yet another signal that inconvenient journalists are not welcome.
Wilfred Burchett’s career should be judged on all his achievements and not reduced to a single solitary story.
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Wilfred Burchett wrote stories about war that the Australian and US governments preferred not to be told. For this, he paid the price.
Newspapers report the death of Aylan Kurdi.
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A devastating picture of a drowned boy has touched viewers and political leaders alike – and could be a turning point in Europe’s spiralling refugee crisis.
Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy is jailed for three years in Egypt.
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The news that two British journalists and their unnamed Iraqi colleague were arrested and charged by the Turkish authorities [though released following publication of this article] for “engaging in terror…
We thought the phone hacking scandal would chasten News Corp. We were wrong.
Coverage of slain TV journalists from the station where they worked.
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The shooting of two TV journalists prompts a broadcast communication professor to draw insights on ethics and personal safety and pass them on to aspiring journalists.
We all like free, but who really pays?
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While some are being given new platforms to express their views, the decline of paid journalism is shutting others out.
American journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward were shot dead live on air, allegedly by a former colleague.
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If someone wants to create panic with a gun and a smartphone, they can. If journalists want to protect the public from disturbing images, they can’t.
A screen shot of on-air shooting video before CNN decided to fade to black.
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Mainstream media and social media go different ways on the ethical questions raised by the airing of video showing on-camera shooting of journalists.
John Hamilton Mortimer, Death on a Pale Horse, 1775.
We have reached a point where apocalyptic vocabulary litters writing – but the end of the world has always populated paintings, and betrays a lot about contemporary concerns.
Public broadcasting is a lot more than a safety net for commercial market failure.
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Repeated surveys show that people value public broadcasters highly. But the political class isn’t listening.