Tony Barrass - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

From starting his reporting career in the working class suburbs of Newcastle, to making his way over to the wild west coast, Tony Barrass has worked as a journo all around this wide brown land. The longtime newspaper man is now a stalwart of the West Australian media landscape, having won many awards for his writing on a range mastheads and rounds. He was tested far more than many journo's early in his career, when he was jailed for a week for contempt of court for refusing to reveal a source. He says it was the only honourable thing to do in the circumstances, although he feels deeply for those journos now put in similar dilemmas. His tells me about these experiences in this episode of The Journo Project podcast, as press freedom in Australia returns to the spotlight of public debate.

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From starting his reporting career in the working class suburbs of Newcastle, to making his way over to the wild west coast, Tony Barrass has worked as a journo all around this wide brown land. The longtime newspaper man is now a stalwart of the West Australian media landscape, having won many awards for his writing on a range mastheads and rounds. He was tested far more than many journo's early in his career, when he was jailed for a week for contempt of court for refusing to reveal a source. He says it was the only honourable thing to do in the circumstances, although he feels deeply for those journos now put in similar dilemmas. His tells me about these experiences in this episode of The Journo Project podcast, as press freedom in Australia returns to the spotlight of public debate.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.