Senior Teaching Fellow BA (Adelaide) MJ (Bond) PhD (Bond) Molly Kasinger (nee Blair) has worked as a newspaper journalist, sub-editor and photographer and is currently co-writing a textbook on feature writing and creative non-fiction for Oxford University Press. Molly has also worked in film and television as (among many things) a cable puller, an AD, a story researcher and script editor on shows including Blue Heelers, Paradise Beach, and the Man from Snowy River (TV series). Molly is the Media Officer for the Journalism Education Association and won the 2004 Journalism Education Award for Early Career Academics. She was Bond’s Valedictorian in 2003 and won the Australian Press Council research award in 2002. Molly has just completed her PhD which looked into including creative non-fiction in the journalism curriculum.
Articles
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, Roger Patching, and Mark Pearson), Australian journalism monographs (2009)
Australian journalism programs have long reported a disproportionate number of female students and the industry...
Uncovering the place of creative non-fiction in Australian journalism departments, Asia Pacific media educator (2007)
This article reviews the results of a census of Australian tertiary journalism programs that sought...
Books
Feature writing (telling the story) (with Stephen Tanner and Nick Richardson), Feature writing (telling the story) (2009)
At the root of all forms of journalism is the desire to convey a story...
Other
Putting the storytelling back into stories : creative non-fiction in tertiary journalism education, Theses (2006)
This work explores the place of creative non-fiction in Australian tertiary journalism education. While creative...