Australian Studies in Journalism (2025)

A new ERA? The changing face of journalism research in Australia

Australian Journalism Review, 2020

In 2011, Michael Bromley and Regan Neal’s survey of Australian journalism academics revealed low levels of critical research participation and productivity, and the under-realized potential of younger, female journalism academics. Nearly a decade on, our 2019 snapshot study, inspired by Bromley and Neal, explores the current state of journalism research and education in Australian universities. It examines the changing profile of journalism staff, their publishing productivity and the evaluation and funding of their research, as well as attitudes towards non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) and engagement and impact assessment. Our study indicates that early- and mid-career journalism researchers in Australia, particularly women, continue to need research training, mentoring and support in securing competitive external grants, as well as encouragement to collaborate and benchmark their research internationally. There is also a new imperative to help researchers and their institu...

Classifying journalism research: the international experience

The future of journalism research in Australia must be within the broader fields of media, communication and cultural studies. For whatever reasons that journalism took a separate path, that strategy has failed. Journalism research should no longer be stuck in a defensive silo separate from the dreaded “media studies”, but a confident, leading sector of a broad media, communications and cultural research agenda in Australia.

Reflections: Development of Australian journalism education

Asia Pacific Media Educator, 2003

The global development of professional education for journalists, since the late nineteenth century, has been primarily driven by reaction to criticism of media practices from politicians and the media publics (Banning 1999 and others). The resulting emphasis on ...

FRONTLINE: Gentle sounds, distant roar: a watershed year for journalism as research

Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa

The Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) 2020 decision on disciplinary categories has profound implications for journalism as a research discipline. Journalism Practice and Professional Writing retain their six-digit Fields of Research (FoR) code within the Creative Arts and Writing Division, a new six-digit FoR of Journalism Studies has been created in the Division of Language, Communication and Culture, and three new FoR codes of Literature, Journalism and Professional Writing have been created for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Māori and Pacific Peoples within the new Indigenous Studies Division. This categorisation both confirms Journalism as a sovereign and independent discipline distinct from Communication and Media Studies, which has been in bitter contention for more than two decades. The ANZSRC confirmed its 2008 policy that the sole and definitive criterion for categorisation was methodology. This article explores the welcome ram...

Special 20th anniversary issue: The challenges facing journalism today

Journalism

This is a special time for Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism as we celebrate our 20th anniversary. When the first issue came out in 2000, we envisaged that the journal would provide an opportunity for an expanding community of established scholars who did not yet have a home for their work and for new academics who were looking for one. We hope we have come some way towards fulfilling that vision over the past 20 years. We like to think that some measure of that is our increase from 3 issues a year to our current 12 issues a year and Journalism's high impact factor. In the first issue of Journalism (2000), our concern was to focus on the relatively new field, prompting the question 'What is journalism studies?' Prominent scholars in the field provided a series of insightful essays exploring both the past and the future of journalism studies. Our 10th anniversary issue in 2009 looked ahead by asking 'What is the future of journalism?' At the time, we noted that journalism [was] expected to wither in an age of financial volatility, decreased revenues, porous borders, layoffs and buyouts, chipped prestige, diminished audiences, concerns about physical safety and variable content. Conversely, it [was also] expected to flourish: information abounds and is more accessible than ever before, the varieties of content and form are unequalled in history, and more people are involved than at any other point in time as both journalism's producers and its consumers. The task of auguring the future [came] against these conflicting sets of expectations about journalism's next stage of development.

JEA 1997 : Time for journalism : technology, industry, management, education. Proceedings of the Journalism Education Association annual conference

1997

EDITORIAL 1997 was an interesting and stressful year in higher education, so far 1998 has been much of the same. We're left wondering, 'Is there time for journalism?'.Yes, as it turns out. Not too far past deadline the Proceedings are ready, we're nearly through another busy semester and so far, we're still sane.

The Handbook of Journalism Studies

This handbook charts the growing area of journalism studies, exploring the current state of theory and setting an agenda for future research in an international context. The volume is structured around theoretical and empirical approaches, and covers scholarship on news production and organizations; news content; journalism and society; and journalism in a global context. Emphasizing comparative and global perspectives, each chapter explores:

Putting the “i” into journalism education: The why and the how of the re-working of the journalism curriculum at the University of Newcastle

canberra.edu.au

Australian regional journalists: What they need and how they see the future

2020

Her research focuses on digital inclusion practices and policies, particularly for emerging digitally excluded social groups and the growing digital media consumption in emerging markets. Kieran McGuinness is a Research Associate for the Digital News Report project. He is a current PhD candidate with the News & Media Research Centre. His research looks at defence journalism and the role of the news media in shaping political discourses of military planning and procurement. Saffron Howden is a journalist, independent researcher, former trainer with the Google News Initiative, and editor of Crinkling News. NEWS & MEDIA RESEARCH CENTRE The N&MRC researches digital news consumption and the impacts of digital technology on journalism, politics and society. Our research occurs in three hubs: the Digital News+ Lab; Critical Conversations Lab; and the Media Cultures Lab. The Centre conducts both critical and applied research projects with partners and institutions in Australia and internationally.