Mediawatch: Jailed journalist's life spread across the big screen

Mediawatch: Jailed journalist's life spread across the big screen

What is it like for a journalist jailed just for doing his job to see the worst moments of his own life on the screen?

Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen

By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed as “a saucy, sexy, funny look at a man with a nose for scandal and a weakness for women”. That would probably not fly these days — but as a rule, movies about Australian journalists are no laughing matter. READ MORE: Other reports on Peter Greste’s The First Casualty Listen to RNZ Medi…