Journalism
Girls, girls, girls. A study of the popularity of journalism as a career among female teenagers and its corresponding lack of appeal to young males (with Mike Grenby, Molly Kasinger, and Roger Patching), Australian journalism monographs (2009)
Australian journalism programs have long reported a disproportionate number of female students and the industry...
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Blogging and tweeting without getting sued: A global guide to the law for anyone writing online, Blogging and tweeting without getting sued: A global guide to the law for anyone writing online (2012)
What you post on a blog or tweet to your followers can get you arrested...
A poor fit for journalism research, Australian Journalism Review (2011)
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Excellence is a worthy goal. It is testimony to human progress that every generation has...
A poor fit for journalism research, Australian Journalism Review (2011)
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Excellence is a worthy goal. It is testimony to human progress that every generation has...
A poor fit for journalism research, Australian Journalism Review (2011)
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Excellence is a worthy goal. It is testimony to human progress that every generation has...
From shorthand to cyberspace: Journalists' interview records as evidence (with Jasmine Griffiths), Media and Arts Law Review (2011)
Journalists have traditionally used established and time-proven methods of recording and storing their interviews, whether...
Mental illness, journalism investigation and the law in Australia and New Zealand, Pacififc Journalism Review (2011)
Mental illness, its terminologies, definitions, voluntary and compulsory treatment regimes, and its interface with the...
Suppression orders: Reskilling journalists and the judiciary (with Caroline Graham), Australian journalism review (2010)
Journalists, media organisations and industry bodies have long complained about the number of suppression orders...
Multimedia journalism as a research method - A new approach (with Roger Patching), 19th AMIC Annual Conference (2010)
Quantifying government media relations in Queensland (with Hamish Mclean), Public communication review (2010)
This article draws upon historical and contemporary data to attempt to identify key issues in...
Researching journalists and vulnerable sources: Issues in the design and implementation of a national study (with Stephen Tanner, Kerry Green, and Joylon Sykes), Advances in communication and mass media research (2010)
A comparison of teenage views on journalism as a career in Australia and New Zealand, Pacific journalism review (2009)
Australian and New Zealand journalism programmes report a disproportionate number of female students and the...
Suppression, privacy, contempt and spin: Australia's struggle with censorship in a Western democracy, Proceedings and e-journal of the 7th AMSAR conference on roles of media during political crisis 2009 (2009)
Australia’s media organisations have joined forces to combat a level of suppression and censorship that...
Censorship through spin: How democratic governments attempt to control the media, with a focus on Australia (with Roger Patching), Changing media, changing societies: Media and the millennium development goals (2009)
In the midst of amazing discoveries, inventions and scientific advancements that we have achieved today,...
Australia’s media climate: Time to renegotiate control (with Jane Johnston), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)
In 2007, Australia was rated by two international media bodies as well down the chain...
Government media relations: A 'spin' through the literature (with Roger Patching), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)
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Government media relations is deserving of serious study because it sits at the interface...
Scandalising media freedom: resurrection of an ancient contempt, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2007)
The ancient charge of “scandalising the court” (publications aiming at lowering the authority of the...
The Australian parliament and press freedom in an international context (with Camille Galvin), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2007)
This paper reports on a study using grounded theory methodology to track the contexts in...
A review of Australia's defamation reforms after a year of operation, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2007)
Australia introduced near-uniform defamation laws in 2006, replacing a complex array of laws in its...
Media freedom in Australia: rhetoric versus reality, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2007)
For some decades Australia has positioned itself as an exemplar of media freedom in the...
Learning to value media freedom in an age of spin, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2007)
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It is time for those who genuinely believe in the value of press...
The Journalist’s Guide to Media Law. Dealing with legal and ethical issues, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2007)
Mark Pearson's widely used introduction to media law takes a journalist's perspective. Writing in a...
Anti-terror laws and the media after 9/11: Three models in Australia, NZ and the Pacific (with Naomi Busst), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2006)
This article reviews some of the main anti-terrorism laws in Australia and New Zealand and...
The privacy mandala: towards a newsroom checklist for ethical decisions, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2005)
Regulators and the courts are increasing privacy constraints upon the news media. Journalists and editors...
The privacy mandala: Towards a newsroom checklist for ethical decisions, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2005)
Regulators and the courts are increasing privacy constraints upon the news media. Journalists and editors...
Defamation and privacy: The view from Down Under, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2005)
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Australia is about as far from Oxford as you can get, so why...
Police digital communications and the media, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2005)
The Crime and Misconduct Commission of Queensland is conducting an inquiry into the move by...
Journalism Ethics: Arguments and Cases, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2005)
Reviews two books. Journalism Ethics: Arguments and Cases, by Martin Hirst and Roger Patching and...
Criminal justice and the media in Denmark and Australia (with Nina Kromann), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2004)
Australia and Denmark have differing legal systems and, apart from a recent royal wedding, very...
Press freedom and the High Court in the Callinan era: rethinking the rhetoric, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2004)
Justice Ian Callinan, appointed to the Australian High Court in 1998, challenged the rhetoric on...
Teaching press freedom and open justice: A model for debate, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2004)
This article explores ways of building the topics of press freedom and open justice into...
Challenging the business paradigm in the interests of media freedom, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2003)
They might be mortal enemies in day to day corporate warfare, but there is one...
Whither media regulation?, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2003)
Several models of media regulation have developed in Australia, from the Australian Broadcasting Authority's rarely...
The cyberboundaries of reputation: implications of the Australian High Court’s Gutnick decision for journalists. (with Carolyn Proud and Peter Willcox), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2003)
The High Court decision in the landmark Dow Jones v. Gutnick defamation case in December...
Press freedom and open justice in the curriculum: A reflective practice approach, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2003)
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Whether or not the Americans match their rhetoric on First Amendment rights with ongoing...
Freedom of the media - the rhetoric and the reality, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2002)
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They might be mortal enemies in day to day corporate warfare, but there is one...
The journalist’s toolkit on ageing - helping shape media perceptions, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2002)
During 2002 Bond University's Centre for New Media Research and Education (CNMRE) and the Positive...
The newsroom versus the lounge room: journalists’ and audiences’ views on news (with Jeffrey E. Brand), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2001)
In May 2001 the Australian Broadcasting Authority released the authors' report titled Sources of News...
Sources of News and Current Affairs (with Jeffrey E. Brand, Deborah Archbold, and Halim Rane), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2001)
Stage One of the Australian Broadcasting Authority’s (ABA’s) Sources of News and Current Affairs project,...
Advertorials and the Trade Practices Act: why the ‘Golden Tonsils’ saga might prove costly in the long run, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2000)
Not long after the Australian Broadcasting Authority announced its inquiry into radio station 2UE over...
Reflective practice in action: preparing Samoan journalists to cover court cases, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2000)
The paper relates a case study in Donald Schön’s reflective practice approach to professional education....
The New 'Multi-journalism': Journalists' and educators' perceptions of the influences of the Internet upon journalism and its implications for journalism education, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1999)
This work uses grounded theory methodology to develop a theory of the Internet’s influences upon...
Curricular implications of the influences of the Internet on journalism., Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1999)
This paper presents and discusses the results of a grounded theory study of the implications...
Look who's talking: A pilot study of the use of discussion lists by journalism educators and students, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1996)
This paper analyses postings over a week-long period to two electronic discussion lists to position...
The media and the Internet: Threat or opportunity?, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1995)
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I’m a great fan of newspapers. My whole career has been built upon...
Journalism education and the Internet: Conferring in cyberspace, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1995)
This article analyses postings over a week-long period to two electronic discussion lists to position...
Teaching media law to journalism students: Different needs, different strategies, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1995)
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Almost all tertiary journalism courses offer media law components in their curricula. It is...
Rethinking quality in journalism education., Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1994)
[Extract]: I believe the needs of students should be central to any debate over quality...
Cosmetic surgery: newspaper reportage of the Medical Journal of Australia (with Camille Galvin), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1994)
The study presented in this article looks at the reporting of eight issues of the...
Journalism education: taking up the challenge of a changing world [Adaptation of presidential address to Journalism Education Association (Australia). Conference (1993: Brisbane).], Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1994)
[Extract]: There is a smorgasbord of career opportunities out there for young journalists who see...
Postcards from the coalface: Journalism graduates’ transition to the newsroom, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1994)
Like many offices, news rooms can be cold and heartless places, staffed by disillusioned people...
Electronic mail as a news medium, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1993)
[Extract] Visualise a community where the daily news is delivered in text form via personal...
Bridging the gap between education and training in the provincial media, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1992)
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While the journalists and the employers want an improvement in work-based skills as...
How the reformed defamation laws will affect journalists, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1992)
[Extract] Defamation Bills have been tabled in the parliaments of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria...
Australia Day and National Identity (1990)
This dissertation argues that the scope and substance of the celebration of Australia Day this...
I want to be a journalist: a study of cadetships., Australian Journalism Review (1988)
This article reports the results of a 1987 study by a research team from Darling...