Callous treatment by Bauer

MEAA has described as callous the way that Bauer Media’ staff learned that up to 60 jobs would be lost and another 15 people would be stood down. The announcement was made by management in a Zoom meeting yesterday.

World Press Freedom Day 2020: reforms needed to reverse criminalisation of journalism

On the release of its annual report into the state of press freedom in Australia today, the union for Australian journalists is calling for serious reforms to reverse a raft of ‘national security’ laws that can be used to criminalise journalism and punish whistleblowers for telling the truth, and which have sent Australia backwards on press freedom.

The War on Journalism: the MEAA Report into the State of Press Freedom in Australia in 2020

The War on Journalism is MEAA’s annual report into the state of press freedom in Australia in 2020.

The MEAA press freedom reports are released on UNESCO World Press Freedom Day, May 3, every year.

Download the document below or read the online version.

Australia’s slump in press freedom standing shows need for reforms

The slide in Australia’s position on the World Press Freedom Index shows the government must reverse its assaults on press freedom.

Making Facebook and Google pay for media content a welcome step forward

Moves to make digital platforms begin to compensate media organisations for the content they have been using for free will go some way towards providing a sustainable future for public interest journalism in Australia.