Media Alliance welcomes appeal win over revealing sources

sm mediaThe Media Alliance welcomes today’s Victorian Court of Appeal decision to set aside witness summons issued against Walkley-award winning Fairfax investigative journalists Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker.

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Uniform shield law needed to protect confidential sources

sm mediaThe Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is calling for a uniform national approach to shield laws for journalists. The call comes amid an unprecedented assault on press freedom with five Media Alliance members facing court action to reveal their confidential sources.

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Journalists facing prison for protecting sources

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Support Adele Ferguson and four other journalists facing prison for protecting sources. Attend Victorian Parliament, 12.45, Tuesday April 2. We need your help to defend press freedom.

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Australia’s Media Alliance supports striking colleagues at the BBC

sm mediaAustralia’s industrial and professional journalists’ association, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, extends its full support in solidarity with colleagues across the United Kingdom who are striking over job cuts, excessive workloads and bullying at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

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Freelance Pro

freelance pro trustmarkWe all know the media landscape is going through fundamental change. So to help level the playing field for freelance journalists, the Media Alliance is offering a new suite of professional services, Freelance Pro.

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In memory of Paul Moran

sm mediaThe Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance remembers Australian Broadcasting Corporation cameraman Paul Moran who was murdered by a suicide car bomb 10 years ago today while on assignment in Northern Iraq at the start of the 2003 invasion.

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