School of Communication and Creative Arts
Faculty of Arts and Education
A/Prof. Stephen Quinn |
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| Position | Associate Professor in Journalism | |
| stephen.quinn@deakin.edu.au | ||
| Area | School of Communication & Creative Arts | |
| Phone | +61 3 522 72694 | |
| Campus | Geelong | |
| Location | Waurn Ponds | |
| Role and profile |
Associate professor Stephen Quinn has been teaching journalism at Deakin University in Australia since July 2005. From July 2003 until the end of 2004 he was an associate professor and visiting convergence scholar in the department of journalism at Ball State University in Indiana in the United States. From August 2001 to June 2003 he was associate professor of journalism at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates and director of the Center for Media Training and Research in Dubai. Dr Quinn has worked in all areas of the media in Australia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates. Among other organisations, he has worked for the Press Association (PA), BBC-TV, Independent Television News (ITN) and The Guardian in London; the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Sydney; Television New Zealand (TVNZ), and the Middle East Broadcasting Center in Dubai. Apart from Australia, he has taught journalism in New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and the United Kingdom since 1989, mostly while working full time as a journalist. In the decade to mid 2009 Dr Quinn has published 12 books (7 as sole-author); 18 book chapters; 31 publications in refereed journals; 7 refereed conference presentations; and presented 123 papers in 24 countries (a third as invited speaker). Scheduled for publication in 2010 are 2 research books, 3 book chapters and a range of refereed journal articles. Dr Quinn is the author of: Asia’s Media Innovators (Singapore: Konrad Adenaeur Foundation 2008) Australia-UAE: Expanding trade and cultural links (Sydney: Focus 2008, co- written with Alexandra Wake and Andrew Linden) Online Newsgathering: Research and Reporting for Journalism (Boston: Focal Press 2008, co-written with Dr Stephen Lamble) Conversations on Convergence: Insiders’ views of news production in the 21st century (New York: Peter Lang 2006) Convergent Journalism: The fundamentals of multi-platform publishing around the world (New York: Peter Lang 2005) Convergent Journalism: An Introduction (Boston: Focal Press 2005, co-written with Dr Vince Filak) Bridging the Gulf: Communications Law in the United Arab Emirates (Dubai: Ideas Lab 2003, co-written with Dr Tim Walters, who was the major contributor) Knowledge Management in the Digital Newsroom (Oxford: Focal Press 2002) Newsgathering on the Net Second edition (Melbourne: Macmillan 2001) Digital Sub-Editing and Design (Oxford: Focal Press 2001) The Art of Learning (Sydney: UNSW Press 1999) Newsgathering on the Net (Melbourne: Macmillan 1999) Scheduled to appear in 2010 are: Mojo: Mobile journalism in the Asian region (Singapore: Konrad Adenaeur Foundation 2010) New ways to pay for journalism: Business models for media in the world of Web 2.0 (New York: Peter Lang 2010, co-written with Jeff Kaye) Since becoming an academic, Dr Quinn has maintained industry links by contributing to newspapers and magazines, working as a newspaper copy-editor and as a freelance television scriptwriter and producer, and delivering training courses. As of mid 2009 he had run courses in 8 countries, all of them repeat visits. Most involved information management, knowledge management, and computer-assisted reporting. He is the only academic on the international advisory counsel for the Newsplex at the University of South Carolina, an Ifra consultant, a member of the international committee of the Online News Association, and a consultant for the Innovation International media consulting group in Pamplona, Spain. |
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| Teaching responsibilities |
Multi-media Journalism, online journalism, introduction to journalism. See home page for details at http://www.deakin.edu.au/~stephenq |
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| Research interests |
media convergence, web 2.0 and journalism, knowledge management in the newsroom, and computer-assisted reporting. |
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| Current research projects |
Use of the mobile phone for newsgathering, the so-called mojo or mobile journalist. |
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| Service to the University, discipline or community |
Journalism area co-ordinator | |
| Qualifications | PhD, University of Wollongong 1999 | |
| Memberships |
Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Australian Journalism Education Association (JEA) Commonwealth Journalists’ Association (CJA) Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Online News Association (member of ONA’s international committee) Australian convergent journalism special interest group Association of Internet Researchers |
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| Research link | View Deakin associated research data | |
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