MEAA Media Room


ARTK submission on publishers’ defamation liability for Facebook comments – 190709

July 9, 2019 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia #pressfreedom MediaRoom Submissions Uncategorized

ARTK submission on Facebook comments – 190709

Australia’s Right to Know submission to the PJCIS review of the metadata regime and Journalist Information Warrants

July 5, 2019 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia #pressfreedom MediaRoom Submissions

The Australia’s Right To Know coalition of media organisations (including MEAA) submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security review of the mandatory metadata retention regime including the Journalist Information Warrant scheme – submitted July 4 2019.

Parliamentary committee’s track record fails on press freedom

July 4, 2019 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia #pressfreedom MediaRoom Releases Uncategorized

The Government’s press freedom inquiry will only delay urgent changes needed to protect the role of journalists and whistleblowers, says MEAA, the union and industry advocate for Australian media workers.

Journalists’ union joins media organisations to call for better protection of press freedom

June 26, 2019 Mark Phillips #MEAAMedia #pressfreedom Campaigns MediaRoom Releases

MEAA, the union for Australia’s journalists, joins with other media organisations today in calling for urgent legal changes to protect press freedom and the public’s right to know.

Government must act on loss of regional media

June 20, 2019 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia MediaRoom Releases Uncategorized

MEAA said the loss of up to 40 jobs in four newsrooms of the WIN Network in major regional centres in NSW and Queensland (Orange/Dubbo, Albury, Wagga Wagga, and in Queensland’s Wide Bay covering Hervey Bay and Bundaberg) is a devastating blow to public interest journalism in Australia’s regions and highlights a crisis that demands government intervention.