I recently had the privilege of judging two categories in the Rural Press Club of Victoria's 2025 Rural and Regional Journalism and...

The Future of Journalism conference at Cardiff University, Wales, was another opportunity to meet fellow journalism studies scholars and...

The first of several planned journal articles to come from my Post Doc studies on information ecologies in news desert towns has been...

ABC reporter Tobi Loftus caught up with me in the south-central town of St George while I was conducting field work for my Post Doc...

My first solo-authored journal article has been published in Q1 journal Journalism Studies. This article provides a five-point framework...

A collaborative paper produced by my Deakin University colleague professor Kristy Hess and I has been published in Q1 journal Journalism...

With Matthew Weber (Rutgers University) and  María-Cruz Negreira-Rey  ( University of Santiago de Compostela) , I am guest editing a...

It was a busy end to 2024 with three conferences in less than two weeks. First up was an industry conference, Country Press Australia's...

The 48-page industry report produced as part of the 'Central connection: Examining a novel approach to enhancing local news access in...

This year I have been on the road, travelling to areas of Australia that have little or no local news provision. I call these areas...

A collaborative effort with fellow Deakin colleagues Kristy Hess, Angela Blakston and Matthew Ricketson has seen our article, titled 'Ink...

The International Communication Association's 2024 conference is the largest gathering of academics I've ever been too - with about 4500...

I've attended several graduation ceremonies as a Deakin staff member, to watch my students achieve their degree, but it felt extra...

The Australian Government is looking for ways to bet support public interest journalism and media diversity. With Deakin colleagues, I...

"Everyone keeps telling us it's going to die." My colleague Kristy Hess and I chose this quote to lead our journal article that examines...

Last year I led a research project that explored audience perceptions of their local news outlet's newspaper and news website. The...

Last week I attended the Journalism, Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) 2023 conference in Sydney. Hosted by...

The Australia and New Zealand Communication Association held its annual conference in Wellington last week and I presented research...

My colleague Kristy Hess and I were lucky enough to judge several categories of the 2023 Victorian County Press Association awards this...

The latest edition of the academic journal Australian Journalism Review includes a book review I wrote. The book, titled American...