Bruce Shapiro's USA, why community radio matters, and an historic Pitcairn Island document returned
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The episode discusses defamation law's impact on American media, the challenges faced by community radio in Sydney, and the return of a significant document to the descendants of the Bounty mutineers.
Our regular US commentator looks at recent political attempts to use defamation law to silence American media. 2SER, a Sydney community radio station with a long history of training professional broadcasters, is under threat. And descendants of the Bounty mutineers, who lived on Pitcairn Island in the Pacific, crowdfunded to get an important document returned to them from London. Guests: Bruce Shapiro, Contributing Editor at the Nation, Executive Director of the Global Centre for Journalism and Trauma Chris Nash, founding Professor of Journalism at Monash University, Former Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) at UTS in Sydney Jon Bisset, CEO of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Helen Mears, Head of Curatorship & Research at Royal Museums Greenwich Dr Pauline Reynolds, Chair, Norfolk Island Museums Trust
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