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The AJF grateful to Crikey for donating over half million dollars

“The AJF is incredibly grateful to Crikey for recognising the importance of our work to support media freedom and the high standards of journalism in Australia,” said the AJF’s Executive Director Prof. Peter Greste

About us

We’re the Alliance for
Journalists’ Freedom

The Public’s Right to Know: The AJF promotes media freedom and the right of journalists to report the news in freedom and safety. This includes working with Australian governments to ensure legislation supports media freedom.

When journalists are silenced, democracy and human rights suffer. We campaign in the Asia–Pacific region, wherever journalists are censored, threatened, imprisoned or killed.

About us

We’re the Alliance for
Journalists’ Freedom

The Public’s Right to Know: The AJF promotes media freedom worldwide and the right of journalists to report the news in freedom and safety. This includes working with Australian governments to ensure legislation supports media freedom.

When journalists are silenced, democracy and human rights suffer. We will campaign in the Asia Pacific region, wherever journalists are censored, threatened, imprisoned or killed.

A series

Future of Journalism

What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve seen in the last twenty. If we don’t know where we are heading, how can we create a pathway to get there? The #FutureofJournalism series explores our options. The Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom, in this fortnightly series, interviews leading thinkers on this from around the world.

See the full playlist on YouTube
Who We Are

The Board + Staff

Peter Wilkinson

Chair

Former journalist with 30 years experience. Now a corporate affairs consultant.

Peter Greste

Executive Director

An award-winning journalist, author and academic. He was imprisoned in 2013/4 for 400 days while covering the unfolding political crisis in Egypt.

Olivia Pirie-Griffiths

Director

Director of Strategic Partnerships for UK-based Centre for Information Resilience’s Afghanistan project.

Victoria-Jane Otavski

Director

Managing Partner of the law firm BlackBay Lawyers.

Sheri Mendel

Head of Finance

Chartered Accountant with over 15 years’ experience in sales, operations, business development and financial roles.

Advocacy & Action

Our purpose is to advocate for media freedom and journalists’ safety. We will either work with governments to create change, or publicly advocate to change government policy.

Research

Research is central to what we do. We want to make sure that our contributions to public debate and policy-making are underpinned by empirical research. That way, you will know that whatever statements we make will be well informed, accurate and up to date.

With light, TRUST

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