How the Assange case highlights the public’s right to know, but also public trust in a free press
Martin Lumb April 30, 2019 0 COMMENTSJulian Assange. Photo BBC By CJA Executive Committee member, and Media Freedom representative of the Association of European Journalists, William Horsley The possible extradition of Julian Assange to face criminal charges in the USA following his expulsion from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London could lead to a dangerous precedent that would severely damage the […]
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By Zina Rohan “If it’s not fun, what the hell is the point?” John Tusa, speaking to the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association on 6th March, was talking about his new book Making a Noise: Getting it Right, Getting it Wrong, in front of an audience largely composed of ex-BBC World Service staff. The occasion was, therefore, […]
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Daphne Caruana Galiza. – Pic Reuters. Author: Malcolm Naudi A former Chair of the Institute of Maltese Journalists (chaired the Institute for 14 years consecutively from 2001 to 2014). Former Deputy Editor of the Sunday Times of Malta. The brutal murder of the Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, killed by a bomb planted in her car, […]
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By William Horsley The big guns of the world’s media have found themselves at fault. At UNESCO’s Paris headquarters on 5 February, 200 senior media managers, editors and journalists from around the world, whose everyday job is to hold others to account, publicly examined their own record in standing up for the safety of […]
READ MORELong-standing BBC editor Ian Richardson has exploited his wide experience of broadcasting and the Middle East to write his first novel, The Mortal Maze. A thriller, the book takes in terrorism, espionage, corruption, love and betrayal, http://www.themortalmaze.com/comments.html. Ian grew up in a newspaper family in rural Australia, but after the family business was sold, he switched […]
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