Dr Jennifer Martin

2018 – 2020: Edward Wilson Research Fellow for the 'Women, Leadership and the Media' Project.

Narrative journalism, civic virtues, emotion in journalism, issues surrounding race and gender in the media.

Member of the International Association of Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS): http://ialjs.org/

Member of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA): http://www.jeraa.org.au/

Member of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA): https://anzca.org/

Journalism, narrative journalism, media ethics, gender issues, civic journalism, multi-media journalism.

ACC700 (post graduate) Communication and Creative Arts Internship: Unit Chair, 2022-2023.

ALJ216 - Feature Writing :Unit Chair 2020-2023; Tutor 2017, 2019.

ALJ218 - Podcasting and Audio Journalism: Unit Chair, 2023.

Co-lead designer of the ALJ716 post graduate Unit: Writing the News, 2022.

ALJ111 - News Reporting 1: Unit Chair and Tutor 2022.

ALJ112 - News Reporting 2: Unit Chair and Tutor 2021-2022.

ALJ728 (post graduate) Feature Writing: Unit Chair 2020, 2021.

ALJ220 - Journalism in Society: Unit Chair 2018; Lecturer 2017, 2019, 2020.

ALJ215 - Multi-platform journalism: Unit Chair 2017, 2018.

ALJ304 - Local Community Journalism: Lecturer 2017.

ALJ710 (post gradutate) - Multimedia Journalism: Unit Chair 2017.

ALJ722  (post graduate) - Investigative and Narrative Journalism: Unit Chair 2017.

Jennifer has reserach expertise in narrative journalism, Australian media history and issues surrounding the media and gender. Jennifer's career as a journalist spans three decades across print, broadcast and online, including working as a journalist with SBS Radio and the ABC Melbourne newsroom.

• Communication
• Culture
• Gender issues
• Journalism
• Local government
• News
• Women's issues

2019

Martin, J. (2019). ‘Saving the ‘silent voyager’: Mapping virtues through an examination of the role of emotion in Australia’s first Walkley Award winning story by cadet, Eva Sommer.’ Australian Media Traditions Conference: Media Convergence: Continuities and Change, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 27–29 November.

2018

Martin, J. (2018). ‘Mapping Virtues in Walkley Award-Winning Literary Journalism – an exploration of the role of affect in Australian feature writing’. Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia Conference 2018: Journalism from the margins to the mainstream, Hobart, University of Tasmania, 3¬–5 December.

Martin, J, Ricketson R and Lucy Smy. (2018). ‘Best practices in Australian staff-student collaborative publishing: the survey results’, Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia Conference 2018: Journalism from the margins to the mainstream, Hobart, University of Tasmania, 3¬–5 December.

Martin, J, Ricketson R and Lucy Smy. (2017). ‘Best practices in Australian staff-student collaborative publishing: an overview’, Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia Conference 2017: The Second Coming of Journalism? Rebirth, Resurrection, Renewal, Resistance, Resurgence, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, 4–6 December.

2017: 

May 11-13: Martin, J. ‘Writing Aboriginality: A Case Study Examining How Indigenous People Have Been Portrayed in the Winning Feature Entries for Australia’s Top Journalism Prize, the Walkley Awards’. The Twelfth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies, Halifax, Canada.

Dec 4-6: Ricketson, M., Martin, J. and Lucy Smy, 2017. ‘Best practices in Australian staff-student collaborative publishing: an overview’ (2017) at the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) conference: ‘The Second Coming of Journalism? ‘Rebirth, resurrection, renewal, resistance, resurgence’, held at the University of Newcastle, December 3-6, 2017: http://jeraa.org.au/2017-jeraa-conference/

2016:

International Association of Literary Journalism Studies Conference, Brazil, May 19-21(IALJS-11): “Literary Journalism: From the Center, From the Margins”. Panel Topic: “Indigenous Literary Journalism: A Global Exploration”.

Paper title: Martin, J. 2016. ‘Telling untold stories to reveal the dark heart of a nation: Can award winning literary journalism help Australians to live well, with and through the media?’ 

2015: 

Martin, J. & Muller, D. 2015. ‘A New Symbiosis? Opportunities and Challenges to Hyperlocal Journalism in the Digital Age’ by Andrea Carson, Denis Muller & Jennifer Martin, University of Melbourne, at the Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff University, September 2015.

2013: Martin, J and Carolyne Lee (2013) ‘Making the real readable: making space for literary/narrative writing in journalism education’ Presentation at the Journalism Educators’Association of Australia Conference, December 4, 2013.

Former co-host, with John Langer, of 3CR's weekly radio show, 'Communication Mixdown': https://www.3cr.org.au/communicationmixdown

Former host of University of Melbourne 'Up Close' Podcast: https://upclose.unimelb.edu.au/host/jennifer-martin

Deakin University School of Communication and Creative Arts: Rural News, Networks and Imaginaries Cluster.

Deakin University School of Humanities and Social Sciences: Contemporary Histories Research Group.

2013:

Australian Post Graduate Award Scholarship.

1997:

United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Prize:

Awarded for a radio documentary on East Timor and new evidence on the death of the Australian journalists, ‘The Balibo Five’, at the hands of the Indonesian Government. This award was won with Andrew Kruger, producer of SBS Radio program ‘World View’ and my fellow reporter, Heather Paterson.

1991:

Jessie Mary Vasey Award: Best thesis on Women’s History, War Widows Guild of Australia.

Walkley Digital Archive Project: The Walkley Digital Archive aims to bring together six decades of award winning stories that can be easily accessed by the touch of a button. Along with Professor Matthew Ricketson and our Deakin library team, we created and built a pilot website which is the first step on a journey to collate and present these award winning stories so that they can be used to inform research and reporting techniques and to entertain and teach future generations: https://digitalarchive.walkleys.com/s/walkleyarchive/page/home

The pilot produced a ‘proof of concept’ for a digital archive of the Walkley Awards in the form of a small-scale working prototype of a basic repository to act as a showcase to base decisions, planning and costing for a full-scale production archive. The link to the Walkley Digital Archive Pilot is available here:
https://digitalarchive.walkleys.com/s/walkleyarchive/page/home