Peter Greste's speech to the National Press Club outlines why whistleblower protections are so integral to the work of journalists.
Share
It’s more than eight years since the heady days that followed my release from Egypt on terrorism charges back in 2015.
At the time, I was hugely relieved to be at home, in a country that seemed committed to media freedom. You’ll appreciate that after Egypt, that mattered a lot to me. As the dust settled, I began to think about the deeper reasons I’d wound up in Cairo’s notorious Tora Prison.
Back then, the Egyptian government had taken the national security rhetoric that swept across the world in the wake of 9/11 and given itself wide powers that it then used to lock up anyone who challenged the official narrative. Including me. In broad terms, it had used loosely framed national security legislation to come after uncomfortable journalism.
Contributor @PeterGreste
Peter Greste is the executive director for the Alliance for Journalists Freedom and professor of journalism at Macquarie University.
Read Full Story: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiYWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmNyaWtleS5jb20uYXUv...
As he said he would on Sunday morning, FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation case against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick this morning over a story that characterizes him as an inc...