New Press Ombud Pippa Green committed to free, independent media | AletJvRens
Ask any journalist what the name Pippa Green brings to mind and they will likely mention words like journalistic excellence, integrity and experience.
They expressed confidence that she would"maintain the confidence of both the industry and the public in the credibility and authority of the Press Ombud". "If you read the finding against the Sunday Times for the rogue unit stories… that was made before we had the knowledge of state capture and the role the Guptas were playing and it was all a muddle then. Within that he applied the basic principles of journalism to make quite a strong finding against the Sunday Times on what was not one story, but a series of stories," Green says.
and has done extensive research in the fields of journalism and economics. She believes that the purpose of journalism is to provide information to citizens to make them free and self-governing.
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