Greste to join UQ faculty
By Jonas Lopez in Media News on Thursday, 18th January 2018 at 12:15pmPeter Greste is coming to the University of Queensland (UQ) faculty.
The university announced that the Latvian-Australian reporter signed a four-year deal as UNESCO Chair of Journalism and Communication at the UQ School of Communication and the Arts. He will officially begin working next month.
“Charged with threatening national security and held in solitary confinement and detention for 400 days, Mr Greste himself became a victim of the ever-present dangers to journalists seeking to establish and report facts. By bringing a leading practitioner into the classroom as an advocate for the fundamental principles of free speech and a free press, we are helping prepare students to work with passion and integrity in a rapidly changing media landscape,” said UQ vice-chancellor/presi...
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