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Chris is a former award-winning journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a documentary filmmaker with international film festival credits (Brigadistas, Philippines My Philippines). He has directed major interactive online projects (www.australiast.uts.edu.au, www.tumblong.uts.edu.au ) and, for 10 years, was director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (www.acij.uts.edu.au).
Chris is particularly committed to Greenpeace’s mission of independence and bearing witness and sees it as an organised expression of ‘citizen journalism’. The public right to know, freedom of information and expression, honesty and accountability are core values to which he has been committed all his working life, and he strongly supports community activism to bring issues and information sharply into focus for public debate.
Chris believes that the crisis in environmental sustainability confronting humanity over coming decades poses fundamental political, social and moral challenges. They will only be resolved peacefully, equitably and democratically if there is a major shift in the way the mainstream media understands its role. It must move beyond a balancing act among corporate and governmental interests vested in the statusquo and address the full dimensions of the looming crisis in a clear-eyed way that is accountable to public engagement.
New information technologies afford exciting opportunities to citizen- and community-based organisations such as Greenpeace to become active participants and catalysts in this public debate, and that is something Chris will support strongly from his position on the Greenpeace board.
Chris is particularly committed to Greenpeace’s mission of independence and bearing witness and sees it as an organised expression of ‘citizen journalism’. The public right to know, freedom of information and expression, honesty and accountability are core values to which he has been committed all his working life, and he strongly supports community activism to bring issues and information sharply into focus for public debate.
Chris believes that the crisis in environmental sustainability confronting humanity over coming decades poses fundamental political, social and moral challenges. They will only be resolved peacefully, equitably and democratically if there is a major shift in the way the mainstream media understands its role. It must move beyond a balancing act among corporate and governmental interests vested in the statusquo and address the full dimensions of the looming crisis in a clear-eyed way that is accountable to public engagement.
New information technologies afford exciting opportunities to citizen- and community-based organisations such as Greenpeace to become active participants and catalysts in this public debate, and that is something Chris will support strongly from his position on the Greenpeace board.
