Presenting the best of @Griffith_Uni student news blogs
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw THE greatest reward for a teacher at any level of education is in celebrating your students’ successes. Colleague Mic Smith and I did this today as we announced the...
View ArticleResponsible media use of drones should be exempted from laws: Goldberg #G20Griff
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Drones – unmanned aerial vehicles – raise a host of legal and ethical issues but responsible journalism should be exempted from many legal restrictions, according to...
View ArticleInternational studies point to best practice for reporting Islam and stories...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Three key international studies counsel journalists to reflect carefully on their practice when they are reporting news and issues involving Islam and people who follow...
View ArticlePlease complete this survey on journalists’ and bloggers’ source protection...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Calling all journalists, bloggers, media law geeks and students: journalists and whistleblowers internationally need your help by completing this global...
View ArticleMindful Journalism in a nutshell: @journlaw keynote to JEANZ
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw EARLIER this month I had the honour of delivering the keynote address to the Journalism Education Association of New Zealand annual conference in Christchurch. The...
View Article‘Mindful Journalism’ out Feb 24: excerpt and review copy request form here
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw We are excited that our book Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach (Shelton Gunaratne, Mark Pearson and Sugath Senarath eds;...
View ArticleJournlaw running updates to The Journalist’s Guide to Media Law
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw OUR fifth edition of The Journalist’s Guide to Media Law – A handbook for communicators in a digital world (Mark Pearson & Mark Polden, A&U, 2015) is now in...
View ArticleNew @journlaw updates posted in privacy, anti-terror and confidentiality of...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw We have just posted numerous updates to the fifth edition of The Journalist’s Guide to Media Law – A handbook for communicators in a digital world (Mark Pearson &...
View ArticleLessons in ‘Right Speech’ and mindful communication in Queensland defamation...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw THE comedians on the Ten network’s ‘The Project’ had some fun with defamation last Friday when they used a fairly sobering Queensland case as the reason to interview me...
View ArticleTowards a mindful approach to media law and ethics
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Our book Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach (Shelton Gunaratne, Mark Pearson and Sugath Senarath eds; Routledge, NY, 2015)...
View ArticleMindful journalism in focus on @RNmediareport
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Mindful journalism was the focus of a segment on Radio National’s Media Report (@RNmediareport) this week (September 3, 2015) when I was interviewed by host Richard...
View ArticleZones of silence: Forensic patients, radio documentary, and a mindful...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Congratulations to Pacific Journalism Review editors David Robie, Annie Goldson and Barry King on their newly released special edition ‘Documentary Practice in the...
View ArticleHow to challenge a ban on naming a mental health patient
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw UTS colleague Associate Professor Tom Morton, ABC lawyer Hugh Bennett and I will deliver a paper in Melbourne next week on our experiences applying to the Mental Health...
View ArticleHow startups focus on the execution of business plans, with less intent on...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Entrepreneurs might undertake strategies that abandon formal IP protection in favour of being quicker to market and investing in capabilities – that is, focussing on an...
View ArticleDrilling down on suppression orders – with a call for reform #mediaiplaw
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Suppression orders should be precise and address imminent publications likely to prejudice the case, not be futile and should only follow a request for removal,...
View Article‘Right Speech’ and media law – mindful journalism as an analytical tool
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Our book Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach (Shelton Gunaratne, Mark Pearson and Sugath Senarath eds; Routledge, NY, 2015)...
View ArticleEthical lessons from the 60 Minutes abduction saga
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw International readers of this blog might be unaware of the national debate in Australia over the involvement of an Australian 60 Minutes television current affairs crew...
View ArticleMindful journalism – Bhutanese style
[This review was first published in Media International Australia, May 2016; 159 (1) as ‘Book Review: The Dragon’s Voice: How Modern Media Found Bhutan’] By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Few of us...
View ArticleGearing up for a stimulating and mindful #wjec16
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Many of the leading lights in journalism education internationally gather in Auckland next week for the fourth World Journalism Education Congress at AUT Auckland. For...
View ArticleReporting Islam in the spotlight at #AEJMC16
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw My sabbatical semester travels now have me in Minneapolis for the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication – #AEJMC16....
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