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Professor of Journalism and Social Media, Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Griffith University

Mark Pearson is Professor of Journalism and Social Media in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. He is a member of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research within the Arts, Education and Law Group.

He is a former section editor of Australia’s national daily newspaper The Australian and has since produced freelance journalism for a range of publications, including The Australian, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Otago Daily Times, Crikey.com.au, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Gold Coast Bulletin.

Professor Pearson’s fields of expertise are media and social media law and regulation, journalism ethics, media freedom and mindful journalism. He is co-author with Mark Polden of The Journalist's Guide to Media Law (6th ed, Allen and Unwin, 2019). He is author of Blogging and Tweeting Without Getting Sued (Allen & Unwin, 2012) and co-editor of Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era (with Shelton A. Gunaratne and Sugath Senarath, Routledge, NY, 2015).

He is a collaborative academic researcher who has worked on a range of projects, including Mindful Journalism, Reporting Islam, the impact of the law upon journalists, restrictions on mental health reporting, the interaction of journalists with vulnerable sources, censorship and the media, government spin, and the impact of new technologies on journalism. He tweets from @journlaw and blogs from http://journlaw.com.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Journalism and Social Media, Griffith University

Honours

Life member of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA).