Why you should listen to her
Self-described as a “journalist and journalism-academic interested in people, politics and the future”, Julie is an award winning, internationally published academic and former ABC journalist. She lectures in broadcast journalism at the University of Canberra, blogs, and freelances for traditional media, including an ongoing series on the effect of new media on traditional journalism for PBS.
A Walkley finalist in the investigative category and the winner of the Australian Human Rights Award for Radio, at 21 she convinced the ABC to put her in charge of the Illawarra newsroom. After a stint with ABC TV Documentaries, she went to Canberra as a national political correspondent for AM and PM in the mid-90s. In 2003 she began her academic career and won a national Carrick Award for teaching in 2007.
Her PhD dissertation is titled The Twitterisation of Journalism. It will explore the impacts and effects of professional journalists engagement with the newsmaking social media platform.