Julie Posetti

Julie Posetti is an internationally published Australian journalist and academic based at the University of Wollongong. She has won multiple professional awards (including the 1996 Australian Human Rights Award for Radio for her coverage of social affairs for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and journalism education honours (including a national award for teaching and learning excellence in 2007).

She was based in Paris in 2013 and 2014 as a Research Fellow with the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum. In 2010, she was targeted by the conservative Murdoch newspaper 'The Australian' and threatened with legal action, after reporting, via Twitter, critical comments made by one of the newspaper's former reporters during a journalism conference in Sydney. This episode became known as "Twitdef"

She authored the UNESCO study Protecting Journalism Sources in the Digital Age published in May 2017.

Posetti began her career as a cadet journalist with the Wollongong commercial radio station 2 Double O (now i98fm) and WIN TV in 1989. She was a reporter and newsreader with the station (owned by the WIN group) and she won the Australian Journalists' Association's regional Cadet Journalist of the Year award in 1989. She moved to ABC News (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is the countries national public broadcaster) in 1990, where she was a reporter and presenter with ABC Illawarra. In 1992, she became the ABC's Regional News Editor based in Wollongong. From there, in 1994, she joined ABC TV Documentaries as a reporter on the series Living in the 90s. In 1996, she joined ABC Radio Current Affairs' national programs AM, PM and The World Today as a Sydney-based reporter, before heading to Canberra as an ABC political correspondent in the Federal Press Gallery. After initially studying politics and history at the University of Wollongong, she graduated with a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) degree from the University of Canberra. In 2005, she was appointed Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Canberra. She moved to the University of Wollongong (UOW) to join the Journalism School within the Faculty of Creative Arts in 2013. In 2013-2014 she was based in Paris on secondment with WAN-IFRA and the World Editors forum as Research Fellow and Editor. She is currently completing a doctorate on the 'Twitterisation of Journalism' through UOW.

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