Bacon: “I would not say media in Australia is free!”

Journalism professor Wendy Bacon

Journalism Professor and Head of Academic Group of Journalism at UTS, Wendy Bacon, says media in Australia is not free at all.

“We do not have the free system in Australia,” Bacon says.

In the second part of the interview with Peter Jagla, Wendy Bacon talks about her online experience and the problem Australia and many other countries face when it comes to free, investigative and independent journalism.

Listen back to the first part of the interview on AllYouCanMeet.

Wendy Bacon is talking about Newtown, her first years in Melbourne and her life in Sydney: “Life’s taken some turns for me [...] I don’t look back,” she says.

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