Raided, Detained, Cancelled: episode 3

Does the threat of cancel culture and social media abuse encourage media makers to self-censor? 

Does the threat of cancel culture and social media abuse encourage media makers to self-censor? 

And does cancel culture protect society from harm or starve it of diverse views and stories? 

Whether you call it mob justice, censorship from society, call out or cancel culture, it is something Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig says he has contended with in various ways over 50 years working for mastheads. 

About the series

Raided. Detained. Cancelled. A three-part digital event series exploring the different ways journalists can be silenced.

There always seems to be someone who doesn’t want a journalist to get a story out. Dictators stifling dissent. Governments protecting national security. Or the mob on social media forcing journalists off the page or even out of their jobs.

Raided, Detained, Cancelled focuses on the most challenging moment in any journalist’s career: the moment when they might pay for a story legally, financially, professionally or even, in some cases, with their lives.

Join us for a series of live online conversations featuring journalists with first-hand experiences of being raided, detained or cancelled. We will hear their stories but also explore the reasons journalists are silenced, whether these efforts really work, and how journalists in different contexts around the world respond.