Peter Greste joins University Queensland as UNESCO chair of journalism and communication

Foreign correspondent Peter Greste, who spent 400 days jailed in Egypt on trumped up terror charges, has joined the University of Queensland School of Communications and Arts as the UNESCO chair of journalism and communication.

Along with Al Jazeera, his employer at the time of his arrest, Greste has worked for the BBC, CNN and Reuters reporting from locations that have included Afghanistan, Belgrade, Mexico and Kenya.

Greste will commence his new role in February

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