Is journalism under threat in Australia? New exhibition on power of free press

Sherryn Groch
November 17 2019 - 10:00am
Journalist Joanne McCarthy believes her own newspaper column on life and parenting might have helped people overcome their fear of the media in reaching out about child sexual abuse covered up by the church. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
Journalist Joanne McCarthy believes her own newspaper column on life and parenting might have helped people overcome their fear of the media in reaching out about child sexual abuse covered up by the church. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

There's this letter, amongst the piles and piles of paper Joanne McCarthy has kept in her 13 years reporting on child sexual abuse.

Sherryn Groch

Sherryn Groch

Journalist

Sherryn is a journalist at The Canberra Times, with a special interest in education and social affairs.

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