About journlaw

This is the blog site of Mark Pearson PhD – journalist, professor and author.

Mark Pearson is adjunct professor at Griffith University in Queensland and is a journalist, academic, blogger and author. He has written and edited for The Australian, and has been published internationally in a range of publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Crikey, The Conversation and ABC’s The Drum. Professor Pearson’s fields of expertise are the law and ethics of both journalism and social media.

He has written or edited 13 books, including Australia’s leading journalism law text The Journalist’s Guide to Media Law – A handbook for communicators in a digital world (5^th edition with Mark Polden, 2015) and Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era (with Shelton A. Gunaratne and Sugath Senarath, Routledge, NY, 2015). He was also author of Blogging and Tweeting Without Getting Sued (Allen & Unwin, 2012), co-editor (with Patrick Keyzer and Jane Johnston) of Courts and the Media: Challenges in the Era of Digital and Social Media (Halstead Press, Sydney, 2012) and co-editor (with Jeff Brand) of Sources of News and Current Affairs (ABA, 2001). Pearson was Australian correspondent for Reporters Sans Frontières from 2005-2016.

Disclaimer: While I write about media law and ethics, nothing here should be construed as legal advice. I am an academic, not a lawyer. My only advice is that you consult a lawyer before taking any legal risks.