Court reporting in regional Australia

Gary Dickson

Achieving the aims of open justice? The relationship between the courts, the media and the public. [...] The other two were based on materials provided by police and by the court.34 These results suggest the opposite of Hess and Waller’s study in Victoria, with very little media attention at the lower court level and seem to confirm the anecdotal impression in the UK of very little Magistrates’ Court reporting, at least in Bristol. [...] They found a high degree of cooperation by the court itself in facilitating access to the courtroom; organising training for camera operators ahead of broadcasting the trial; addressing logistic issues such as space, power, and storage; and a tolerance for the occasional disruptions that came from having working journalists present during the trial.53 The respect of the court towards the media app. [...] In addition to descriptive details about the articles, such as the date an article was published, the outlet it was published in and the byline of the reporter, coders assessed the articles for the following content variables: ● The case name, generated each day from a search of New South Wales court daily lists for each of the Local and District courts in the sampled locations. [...] ● The location of the story, meaning where the place(s) where the incident took place, not the location of the court.