The journalist's guide to media law : dealing with legal and ethical issues
This fully revised and updated practical guide offers a comprehensive overview of aspects of law which relate to a journalist's work including defamation, contempt, confidentiality, privacy, trespass, copyright and regulation. Cases and examples are used to illustrate key points. Also included is an introduction to the legal system
Print Book, English, 2004
Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, Australia, 2004
viii, 380 pages ; 23 cm
9781865089140, 1865089141
56525682
1. Journalist and the legal system: Media law and ethics
The legal system
Freedom of the press
2. Reporting crime and justice: Open justice
Contempt of court
Dealing with the justice system
Reporting the courts
3. Journalists and reputations: Identifying defamation
Defending defamation
4. Journalists and information: Keeping secrets: confidentiality, sources and freedom of information legislation
Intellectual property: protecting your work and using the work of others
5. Ethics and the law: Privacy and ethnicity
The regulators
Appendix 1. MEAA (AJA) code of ethics
Appendix 2. Australian Press Council statement of principles
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