Julianne Schultz

Professor Julianne Schultz AM FAHA (born 1956) is an Australian academic, media manager, author and editor of more than fifty books, and founding Editor of the Australian literary and current affairs journal Griffith Review. She is currently a Professor at Griffith University's Centre for Creative Arts Research.

Schultz was born on January 2, 1956 in Hamilton, New Zealand. Her father, Dr Noel Schultz was born and brought up in the Darling Downs in Queensland and married Dr Cynthia Weiss in Adelaide in 1955 after he graduated from Concordia Lutheran College. Cynthia was a Deaconess of the Lutheran Church in South Australia. Noel Schultz was appointed the Lutheran pastor at Hamilton, NZ and was subsequently appointed pastor at Gilgandra, NSW, Tabor in Victoria and Brisbane, before joining the Uniting Church in Melbourne. Cynthia Schultz trained as a psychologist at the University of Queensland and subsequently taught at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Julianne Schultz completed her school education at St Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane and went on to gain a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism at the University of Queensland, graduating in 1976. She was co-editor, with Jane Camens, of the University of Queensland student newspaper Semper Floreat. Schultz later completed a PhD at the University of Sydney in 1996, in which she explored the contemporary relevance of the fourth estate to the practice of journalism in Australia.^[2] She was awarded a Graduate Certificate in Management from the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales in 2003.

Schultz began her career as a researcher and producer in radio with the ABC in Brisbane and in 1977 moved to The Australian Financial Review in Melbourne as a reporter. After working as a journalist in London, she became a producer for ABC TV on Four Corners in Sydney in 1981 and was appointed as Lecturer in Journalism at the NSW Institute of Technology (later UTS) the following year. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1986 and to Associate Professor in 1989, when she became the Founding Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, which she led until 1994.

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