Press freedom
Websites
- Press Freedom Online
- The website of The Committee to Protect Journalists. CPJ is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1981 to promote press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal.
- International Press Institute
- IPI, the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, is dedicated to the furtherance and safeguarding of press freedom, the protection of freedom of opinion and expression, the promotion of the free flow of news and information.
- Ofcom
- The independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries. Includes sections on codes and guidelines, consultations, etc.
- Free Press
- Free Press is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, quality journalism, and universal access to communications. Free Press was launched in late 2002 by media scholar Robert W. McChesney, journalist John Nichols and Josh Silver, and is the largest media reform organization in the United States.
Websites - Australia
- Australian Press Council: Activities in support of free speech
- In its role as a defender of press freedom, the Council scrutinises legislation, court decisions and any activities of politicians, courts, newspaper proprietors and others that might threaten press freedom.
The Council has published a Charter of a free press
For lots of useful links on this topic, go to the Council's comprehensive site Freedom of the Press Links.
- Freedom of the Press in Australia
- A paper by Associate Professor Chris Nash, Director, Australian Centre for Independent Journalism.
"The Australian constitutional framework for freedom of the press is weaker than in other liberal democracies, the commercial pressures are strong and the legislative and financial impact of recent national governments on public media alternatives has been detrimental. Therefore, this paper argues, the terrain on which the contest for freedom of expression and the press occurs is hostile to the public compared to other liberal democracies. Nonetheless, there is a strong commitment to the role of an independent, querulous media in some sections of the Australian press."
- Communications Law Centre
- The Communications Law Centre, University of Technology Sydney, is an independent, non-profit, public interest centre specialising in communications, media and online law and policy. Covers all sorts of topics relating to media including free speech. Resources include research papers, submissions and articles.
- Freedom House
- Freedom House is an organisation fighting for policies to defend and secure freedom; it has been at the forefront in monitoring threats to media independence since 1980.
The Map of the Press Freedom is an annual survey of media independence in 195 countries and territories, and is at the core of Freedom House's press freedom project. The annual index contains the most comprehensive data set available on global media freedom and is a key resource for scholars, policymakers, and international institutions.
Print material
To find books on press freedom in the Library look up the Library Catalogue using the Subject Heading Freedom of the press.
There are lots of books listed under different subheadings of Freedom of the press. For example, Freedom of the press -- Australia, and in many other countries.
Journals
The Library subscribes to several journals on press freedom, both online journal and in print (that is, paper) format. To find out what journals we have, just search the Library Catalogue under the Subject Heading Freedom of the press -- Periodicals.
 This page was created and is maintained by Alan Keig
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