Overview

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Offerings

KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-INT-2018-2018
KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-INT-2020-2020

Requisites

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.
Understand the role and function of the courts and tribunals;
2.
Apply your knowledge of the court system in order to report proceedings
3.
Understand the laws of defamation and other laws sufficient to know when a story is risky to publish or not, and why
4.
Use the regulations and codes of ethics to assist in ethical judgment
5.
Take an ethical stand on an issue and argue for it

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:• Media law and the courts • Contempt, defamation and other laws • Media regulation in Australia • Codes and self-regulation in Australia • Ethical principles for journalists • Privacy and other sensitive areas of reporting