The Sydney Morning Herald logo
Advertisement
Jonathan Holmes

Jonathan Holmes

Jonathan Holmes is a former host of Media Watch and chair of ABC Alumni.

For all the angst over right-wing pressure from the likes of Donald Trump, the real power in London and Canberra lies with Labor and Labour.

A Trump doco has plunged the BBC into crisis. The critics have a point

Public broadcasters like the ABC and BBC are under huge pressure from the political right, but they won’t survive by refusing to admit mistakes.

  • Jonathan Holmes

Latest

How to manage complaints? ABC chair Ita Buttrose.

Buttrose has been a stalwart defender of ABC independence, so why is she wresting control of complaints from its management?

In appointing an ombudsman who answers to the board, not the managing director, the ABC chairperson would create a complaints system unique in the democratic world.

  • Jonathan Holmes
Australian Federal Police raided the home of journalist Annika Smethurst in 2019.

For we are one and ... safe: how Australia surrenders its liberty by tiptoeing around press freedom

Raids on journalists provoked public alarm and a parliamentary inquiry – all to little effect.

  • Jonathan Holmes