Associate Professor Anne Dunn

BA Hons (Syd)
PhD (Canberra)

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Anne Dunn was educated in Britain and Australia and is a graduate of the universities of Sydney and Canberra. She was appointed to the Department of Media and Communications in 2001. She has also held positions teaching journalism in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Western Sydney and as Senior Lecturer in Broadcasting at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst. Her recent administrative positions include acting as Director of the Media and Communications program and as Associate Dean and Deputy Chair of the Undergraduate Matters Committee. Anne is Pro Dean Academic for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Prior to taking up a full time academic career, Anne worked across the print, television and radio media. Altogether, Anne spent some 13 years with ABC Radio and Television, in management, in policy and in broadcasting, including as a presenter, journalist and producer. She has also worked for the BBC in documentaries as well as in Australian commercial television as a journalist/researcher; for SBS Television as a reporter; and as a freelance director, reporter and writer in both the television and print media. Anne currently holds an ARC Linkage Grant with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation looking at the impact of cross media work in broadcast news.

Research Interests

• Audience construction in the intersections between policy and practice in broadcast news production
• Impacts on radio journalists of digital convergence in the media
• Digital convergence
• Audiences
• Public broadcasting
• Media policy
• Journalism as a profession
• Issues surrounding the tertiary teaching of journalism and media

Publications

Current Supervising Postgraduates