Peter Greste

Peter Greste is a journalist, academic and media freedom advocate based in Brisbane, Australia. After starting his career in regional TV news, he went abroad in 1992 to become a foreign correspondent. He joined the BBC in 1995 as its Afghanistan Correspondent, and went on to cover the Balkans, Latin America and Africa, as well as conflicts across the Middle East. In 2010, he won a Peabody award for a current affairs documentary on Somalia for the BBC’s Panorama program.  In 2011, Al Jazeera appointed him as its East Africa correspondent, and three years later, he became a headline himself when the Egyptian authorities arrested him and two colleagues on terrorism charges. After a trial widely dismissed as a sham, they were convicted and given sentences of between seven and ten years. But following an international campaign, Greste was released after 400 days. He returned to Australia and went on to become a champion of press freedom and is now a professor of journalism at Macquarie University in Sydney. He wrote about his experiences and what he considers to be a “war on journalism” in his book, The First Casualty, which has since been turned into an award-winning feature film.

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