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Asking and answering the hard questions
O'Donnell, PennyPublished 2019-01-01This book is about journalistic authority, understood as ‘the central element that makes journalism work’ (p. 5). It aims to increase understanding of how and why this authority persists at a time when there are fewer jobs ...Open AccessArticle -
Australian journalism students' professional views and news consumption: Results from a representative study
Hanusch, Folker; Clifford, Katrina; Davies, Kayt; English, Peter; Fulton, Janet; Lindgren, Mia; O'Donnell, Penny; Price, Jenna; Richards, Ian; Zion, LawriePublished 2015-07-01Journalism education's role in shaping students' professional views has been a topic of interest among scholars for the past decade in particular. Increasing numbers of studies are concerned with examining students' ...Open AccessArticle -
Australian Journalists at Work: Their Views on Employment, Unionization, and Professional Identity
O'Donnell, PennyPublished 2018-01-01The aftermath of dramatic news industry restructuring in Australia, as elsewhere, has major implications for journalistic employment, professional identity, and other collective occupational structures, including unions. ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Bearing the Burden of Corporate Restructuring: Job Loss and Precarious Employment in Canadian Journalism
Cohen, Nicole S.; Hunter, Andrea; O'Donnell, PennyPublished 2019-01-29This article reports on job loss among Canadian journalists between 2012 and 2016. Building on Australian research on the aftermath of job loss in journalism, this article examines the experiences of 197 journalists who ...Open AccessArticle -
Beyond newsrooms: Younger journalists talk about job loss and re-employment in Australian journalism
O'Donnell, PennyPublished 2017-12-01This article examines the re-employment destinations of 10 younger journalists who lost newsroom jobs in the period 2012 to 2014, to understand the work options available in the current Australian labour market. With field ...Open AccessArticle -
The blurring line between freelance journalists and self-employed media workers
Josephi, Beate; O'Donnell, PennyPublished 2022This study uses the question, ‘what makes a freelancer specifically a journalist’ as a starting point for investigating the ways Australian freelance journalists experienced and managed precarious employment in COVID-19 ...Article -
Book Review: Gender Violence at The U.S.–Mexico Border: Media Representation and Public Response,
O'Donnell, PennyPublished 2010-01-01Patricia Ravelo Blancas examines the subjectivities of the mothers of the murdered young women of Ciudad Juarez. Her focus is the transformative process by which individual loss can be re-signified through collective action. ...Open AccessArticle -
'It has a bleak future': The effects of job loss on regional and rural journalism in Australia
Zion, Lawrie; Sherwood, Merryn; O'Donnell, Penny; Dodd, Andrew; Ricketson, Matthew; Marjoribanks, TimothyPublished 2016-12-01Severe contractions in the Australian media landscape have led to a loss of jobs in major metropolitan newsrooms. In 2015, those cuts spread significantly to regional and rural newsrooms in Australia. This paper explores ...Open AccessArticle -
JERAA@40: Towards a history of the professional association of Australian journalism academics
O'Donnell, Penny; Margaret, Van HeekerenPublished 2015-12-01The professional association representing Australian journalism educators was established in 1975. This article, on the occasion of the association's 40th anniversary, traces the history and evaluates the role of the ...Open AccessArticle -
Journalism and intellectual life: the exemplary case of Donald Horne
McKnight, David; O'Donnell, PennyPublished 2017-07-01Anti-intellectualism is widely seen as a feature of the modern mass media, but it is also widely accepted that much debate about ideas occurs through the mass media and that, for example, the mass media has been the prime ...Open AccessArticle -
Journalism Education in Australia: Educating Journalists for Convergent, Cosmopolitan, and Uncertain News Environments
O'Donnell, PennyPublished 2017-01-01There is a high national demand for entry into journalism programs and student interest in journalism careers is impressive. Journalism program enrolments rose by 42% in the 2001-2008 period, compared to an increase of 27% ...Open AccessBook chapter -
New Beats Project Updated Redundancy Timeline
Zion, Lawrie; Dodd, Andrew; Marjoribanks, Timothy; O'Donnell, Penny; Ricketson, Matthew; Sherwood, Merryn; Winarnita, Monika; Harper, RobinPublished 2017-08-21Document tabled by New Beats Project at public hearing of the Senate Select Committee on the Future of Public Interest Journalism on 21 August 2017 - Updated Redundancy TimelineOpen AccessWorking Paper -
Pushback journalism: Twitter, user engagement and journalism students' responses to 'The Australian'
O'Donnell, Penny; Hutchinson, JonathonPublished 2015-07-01This article examines journalism students' responses to claims in 'The Australian', made in October 2014, alleging some of Australia's top universities were indoctrinating rather than educating future journalists. It reports ...Open AccessArticle -
Remembering Anne Dunn (1950 - 2012)
O'Donnell, Penny; Martin, Fiona; Dunn, PeterPublished 2012-07-01When Ian Richards asked for a tribute to our extraordinary colleague, Anne Dunn, who passed away on July 1, 2012, after a long illness, it was hard to know where to begin. This is a very difficult farewell. Anne always ...Open AccessArticle -
Submission #140 to the Select Committee on the Future of Work and Workers by the New Beats Project
O'Donnell, Penny; Zion, Lawrie; Ricketson, Matthew; Dodd, Andrew; Marjoribanks, Tim; Sherwood, Merryn; Winarnita, Monika; Harper, RobinPublished 2018-03-01Australian journalists have a long history of organising in the pursuit of decent pay and working conditions in the belief that a strong workforce is the best guarantee of quality news that serves the public interest. This ...Open AccessOther -
Submission to the Parliament of Australia's Independent Inquiry into Media and Media Regulation
McKnight, David; O'Donnell, PennyPublished 2011-11-01This submission argues the newspaper business model is in crisis, putting downward pressure on revenues, and threatening the livelihood of Australia's workforce of professional journalists. Alongside the ABC, Australian ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Submission to the Select Committee on the Future of Public Interest Journalism
Zion, Lawrie; Dodd, Andrew; Marjoribanks, Timothy; O'Donnell, Penny; Ricketson, Matthew; Sherwood, Merryn; Winarnita, Monika; Harper, RobinPublished 2017-06-22New Beats is a project studying Australian journalists whose positions became redundant during or since 2012. The four-year project is funded by the Australian Research Council and is being conducted by a team of researchers ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Submission to the Select Committee on the Future of Public Interest Journalism, Submission 44
O'Donnell, Penny; Dwyer, Tim; Martin, FionaPublished 2017-01-01We argue that it is essential for government to study the impacts of social media news consumption and loss of public interest journalism on media diversity before it moves to enact changes to legislation than may reduce ...Open AccessOther -
That's Gold! Thinking about excellence in Australian Journalism
O'Donnell, PennyPublished 2009-12-01This paper reports on the first national study of the annual Walkley Awards for excellence in Australian journalism, the premier media prizes in this country. The research is designed to investigate the meaning of quality ...Open AccessArticle, Letter
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