“We are just trying to practise journalism which I don’t think gets practised all that much these days,” Graham told Guardian Australia before appearing in court to defend his right to publish Professor Barry Spurr’s racist emails. “I look at the mainstream media and I think it’s not the media I grew up with.” Chris Graham readily admits he is a “hard bastard” and claims to love all the high-stakes drama that surrounds his journalism. On Thursday morning two of the scoops he published on his independent website New Matilda were the subject of two separate court cases involving anonymous sources. Professor Barry Spurr on Thursday dropped legal action to force New Matilda to reveal source of emails. Instead the University of Sydney poetry professor will focus on preventing further publication of emails, which he claims was part of a ‘political attack’ on the federal government. Freya Newman – in court on Thursday over documents leaked regarding Frances Abbott’s scholarship – had her sentence deferred. She returns to court on 25 November. Read more: theguardian/media/media-blog/2014/oct/23/chris-graham-on-editing-new-matilda-i-have-pissed-off-a-lot-of-people
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 07:43:56 +0000
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