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What’s this blog all about? This blog is about news, journalism, journalism education, politics and culture in an Australian setting but in a global context. It may also involve occasional outbursts of whimsy. I want it to be a forum for debate as well as a repository for my journalism, research, musings and occasional rants. So, engage with me and my ideas and let me know what you’re thinking. This is a two-way street!

24 October, 2012

Journalists, Twitter Gaffes and Freedom of Expression

What action should media employers take when one of their journalists crosses the line on Twitter? And what are the implications for freedom...

02 October, 2012

Setting the record straight on 'trial by social media' and The Australian

The Australian sure knows how to maintain a vendetta. Indeed, Murdoch’s national broadsheet is the originator of what I call ‘vendetta journ...

28 September, 2012

Avoiding Trial by Social Media in the Jill Meagher Case

I produced this Storify on the social media issues surrounding the heartbreaking story of the rape and murder of ABC Radio's Jill Meaghe...

14 August, 2012

Media Regulation, Murdoch and the Journalism Wars of Oz*

* This post is an edited version of an article that will appear in the Rhodes Journalism Review of South Africa in September 2012 Rupert ...

17 February, 2012

A Letter to my fifteen year old self

I performed the following letter at the inaugral Canberra Women Of Letters event staged at the National Library of Australia this week as pa...

21 July, 2011

Some #Hackgate Questions for News Ltd and Other Media

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has fuelled calls for a public inquiry into the media in the wake of #Hackgate, telling journalists ...

03 March, 2011

Colvinius: The Irrepressible Foreign Correspondent

Legendary Australian broadcaster Mark Colvin is known for the timbre of his voice, his broad knowledge of international affairs, his erudit...

09 December, 2010

#Twitdef: Chapter 2

Since #Twitdef began in late November, I have had the extraordinary experience of seeing my name in the headlines, as the Editor in Chief of...

28 November, 2010

Twitdef*

Chris Mitchell, the Editor in Chief of Rupert Murdoch's flagship newspaper in Australia The Australian , is threatening to sue me for de...

09 March, 2010

Stop the Presses

A global study has confirmed women are grossly under-represented in the news – both as producers of it and characters within it. The result,...

27 November, 2009

Thrills & Spills

This has been a most extraordinary week in Australian Federal politics. A week in which the future of the Liberal Party looked as uncertain ...

08 November, 2009

Trafigura, Tweets & Teaching

I started my professional life as a radio news journalist – with skills honed inside the walls of the Media 140 conference venue - the ABC ...

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About Me

J-scribe: Canberra, Australia; I'm a journalist & journalism academic from Canberra, Australia. I'm a digital immigrant but a journalism native! My media career began in the late 1980's in the industrial city of Wollongong, where I worked for commercial radio and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), eventually becoming the ABC's Regional News Editor. In the early 90's I moved to Sydney as a reporter with ABC TV Documentaries before returning to my first love, radio, with the flagship ABC current affairs programs AM, PM and the World Today. In 1997, I was posted to the Canberra Press Gallery as a political correspondent for these programs. My reporting focus was on social justice issues including Aborignal affairs & ethnic communities. While I still call myself a journalist, I moved into academia in 2003 & I now teach radio & television journalism @ the University of Canberra*. I'm doing a PhD on the Twitterisation of Journalism & I also research multicultural journalism, talk radio & public broadcasting. I'm the Australia correspondent for PBS Mediashift. You can read my stories here: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/julie-posetti-1

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