I presented this co-authored paper at the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff, Wales, this week. It explored the nuances of...

The 2023 Future of Journalism conference has just started in Cardiff, Wales, and already I have a pad full of notes from various...

Last month I attended the newly formed Advancing Rural and Regional Culture and Society (ARRCS) research group's first retreat. Held at...

The Queensland Country Press Association held its annual conference in Brisbane last week and I was lucky enough to be invited to present...

More than 100 people attended the launch of the Recommendations Report produced by the research team involved in the ARC Linkage project...

The Journal of Communication Inquiry has published an article I co-authored called ' Untapped Potential? Exploring the ‘latent’ local...

This week I've been at the JERAA conference in Perth, listening and learning from journalism scholars from across Australia and around...

My latest academic journal article was published in Communication Research and Practice this month. You can find it here:...

Local newspapers are vital for disadvantaged communities, but they’re struggling too - that's the headline of an article just published...

Last week's Victorian Country Press Association conference, held in Melbourne, included an awards dinner where the best rural and...

I’ve been spending the past two months bunkered down in an old stone building in Cornwall writing my PhD dissertation. It sounds idyllic...

My first academic article has just been published! It features in the journal Media International Australia. The article, titled...

It was a privilege to recently help judge some of the annual Queensland Country Press Australia awards. The winners have now been...

This month I have been lucky enough to do some extra work with Country Press Australia - the organisation that represents about 200...

'Place' and 'space' are important concepts in local journalism studies, with scholars often turning to Castells (2010), Creswell (2004),...

I recently presented a paper at the Australia Media Traditions conference. The presentation explores the history of a newspaper in...

Seventy-two pages. That’s got to be one of the largest weekly country newspapers in Australia. That was the size of The Monaro Post the...

I was recently at The Bairnsdale Advertiser speaking to its owner and newsroom workers there, and I've ended up in a podcast on the...

Today I interviewed the 91-year-old editor of The Buloke Times. Yes, you read that right, 91! His name is Robin Letts and he’s been the...

I’ve been thinking about time as a factor in newspaper sustainability lately, because most of the country newspapers I am focusing on...