RIP Gorby and the duty of a journalist to inform
a speaker phone with news replicating and spiraling out into a man's outstretched arms

Just another slow fortnight in media and law. Well, apart from Lachlan Murdoch suing Crikey. And Erin Molan winning her defamation suit against the Daily Mail. And the Australian eSafety Commissioner getting tough with Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. And Chris Dawson being found guilty of murder in a livestreamed judgment, following a 2018 podcast that some thought had cruelled the chances of a fair trial.

And there was more. Below, Monica Attard reflects on the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, and her experience as a foreign correspondent in Moscow during the collapse of the USSR. Derek Wilding asks whether Zoe Daniel’s call for a judicial inquiry into media diversity is a good idea. And Michael Davis challenges the ethics of the journalists who chose not to report that the Prime Minister had secretly been sworn into extra portfolios. Finally, I reflect on last month’s CMT/ICRC event into conflict reporting, featuring the inspiring Marwa Moeen.

Ok, maybe not such a slow fortnight. Read on: 

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Sacha Molitorisz

Sacha Molitorisz, Senior Lecturer - UTS Law

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