I found a very interesting interview on Soundcloud with Janet Steele, the Director of the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication. She was doing several talks at a few universities in Australia over Journalism in the Islamic world. One thing that I found most interesting from the 15-minute interview was Steele’s commentary on how basic journalism practices like truth and balance intersect with and diverge with the teachings of Islam. It comes at the 1:25 mark of the interview. She specifically references justice and how it intertwines with journalism and Islam and other religions. She says that “justice is a very important concept in Islam, much more important than freedom. So it was things like that, that got me to start asking journalists about the connection between journalism and religion.” I think this is a very interesting connection to make given how important bringing justice is to journalists around the world. I had never considered that relationship.<\/p>\n
Here is the link for those that are interested in listening: LINK<\/a><\/p>\n