Australian Shield Laws

In the Journalists’ Code of Ethics is implemented to the media to keep the reporting of all journalists fair and non-judgemental. The professional standards

“… to gather news it is often necessary to agree either not to identify the source of information published or to publish only part of the facts revealed, or both; that if the reporter is nevertheless forced to reveal these confidences to a grand jury, the source so identified and other confidential sources of other reporters will be measurably deterred from furnishing publishable information, all to the detriment of the free flow of information, protected by the first amendment.” (3)

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Journalism and technology go together especially in our modern-day society. Ethics is a guideline that journalists uphold their obligation to the public and their profession to report the truth. Unfortunately, in this digital age, we have the resource that can verify one’s original work but also to plagiarize. Journalists should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information. Journalists should also test the accuracy of information from all sources and exercise care to avoid inadvertent error (“Society of Professional Journalists: Code of Ethics”, 1996). In this paper I will discuss what role did digital technology play in the Jayson Blair scandal, how can it be regulated, and what guidelines can be put in place to prevent future incidents.

In journalism, an ethical dilemma is a complex issue or situation that often involves an emotional and psychological conflict between moral obligations and duties, in which to obey one would transgress the other. Within the media there are many stories that can be deemed an ethical dilemma; some more so than others. One of the most recent and prominent ethical dilemmas was the worldwide coverage surrounding the shooting of two American WBDJ journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward. Despite the fact that the shooter filmed the ordeal clearly showing the two slain journalists being shot, news outlets had picked it up and ran with the story, which ultimately went viral in minutes. This essay will analyse and thoroughly examine the reporting

The interpretation of “privacy” under the PCC Code was considered in R (Ford) v Press Complaints Commission . The applicant was the well known television journalist, Anna Ford. She looked for authorization to apply for judicial review of the PCC choice dismissing her protest about distribution of photos of her and her accomplice on a disengaged yet open shoreline abroad. Silber J refused permission on the basis of the “broad discretion” given to media regulators and the “extended deference given by the courts” to their

Conclusively, Law reform is a perpetual or ongoing process: it is constantly evolving in conclusion, need for law reform in our contemporary society is vital. It Is important that the Australian law is consistently reformed on a regular basis to prevent any  issues to ensure to ensure that we live in a society of peace, justice, regulation and a society which upholds values , morals and ethics Through law reform by understanding and recognising that there is a problem in our community which can be fixed through the legal system we may use the federal, state, etc. law to unpin and prevent this issue and the way to reform the law to fit the contemporary society and prevent revenge porn from ruining lives Through the process of law reform, legal

It began 2 million years ago, Canada and the upper U.S. were covered in glaciers. All the repeated melting and freezing of the glaciers created thousands of cavities in the Canadian Shield, which were filled with melted glacier water which created the Great Lakes (and many other rivers and lakes). In the west, there used to be a HUGE lake (Lake Bonneville) but it drained into the Pacific Ocean through rivers and dried out

The job of a journalist has always been highly scrutinized. For years, the question of what and how a journalist should deliver information has been analyzed. However, despite the many theories, it has always been a clear consensus that journalists have an obligation to truth above all. However, there are many cases where a journalist may not know how far to go in order to deliver that truth. Of course, a journalist must always operate within legal limits, however, again some cases have blurred lines. A case that demonstrates these blurred lines between the legal and illegal, as well as the need to deliver truth, is a case between the Rolling Stone and their use of illegal music links.

What comes to your mind when I say Pauline Hanson? Some of you are most likely smirking, probably annoyed – or maybe even angry. Mrs Hanson, in her time, has said some questionable things there is no doubt in that. However, with that being said, it is completely evident that the Australian media presents biased, misleading and unfair representations of Ms Hanson to distort her opinions and values and in turn influence the public’s perception of her. The reality is that she’s not as extreme as the media makes her out to be. Today, I will analyse three separate occasions in which Australian news articles have blatantly broke the Australian Journalist Association code of ethics to continue their crusade against Ms Hanson.

Reporters rely on sources to provide the news they publish, and those sources might not want to share information out of fear that they’ll get in trouble for sharing it. Privileges in reporter were developed to protect journalists. Reporter 's privilege in the United States is the protection that a reporter has under constitutional law from being forced to reveal their confidential information or sources in court. It may be described in the US as the First Amendment right given to journalists to protect their private sources from being exposed.

Australian sports law is grounded in the principles of "Natural Justice" to ensure procedural fairness. Nevertheless, the sports tribunals' ability to hold hearings and make determinations without allowing athletes the benefit of legal counsel is troublesome. Clearly, the process often involves valuable rights which should be asserted and preserved by knowledgeable, zealous legal counsel at the first opportunity. The single difference between the Waverley and Nagle cases shows how issues that are vitally important to an individual can turn on a single fact; consequently, while Waverley and Nagle did not involve sports tribunals, they do show the importance of paying careful attention to facts, which also applies to sports tribunals. Finally, the inclusion of women in sports, particularly Golf, is a natural outgrowth of anti-discrimination laws and progressive Australian attitudes create fertile ground for further attempts by women to compete with men.

“Many laws exist in Britain restraining the media. In 1992, the White Paper, Open Government, identified 251 laws outlawing information disclosure. Two years later the Guild of Editors listed 46 directly relating to journalists. The laws of libel, contempt, defamation, obscenity and ‘gagging’ injunctions to stop alleged breaches of confidence all act as restraints on the media.” (Keeble, Richard/ Ethics for Journalists)

Smith and Dean state that ‘publication contempt includes any publications that interfere with the conduct of particular legal proceedings and publications that undermine the judiciary through scurrilous abuse, or by allegations of bias and partiality’ (2011). ‘Scandalising the court’ is a contempt issue that addresses and describes publications that tend to undermine the judicial system (NZLC IP36). In this essay, both ‘publication contempt’ and ‘scandalising the court’

Working within the media industry, especially as a journalist. It can sometimes be difficult and challenging as you are more than often finding yourself having to raid people’s personal lives to get a story. However, 'Is it in the public interest? ' that is the one question any journalist must ask themselves if they are to publish a story that may contain an individual’s private information.