Julie Posetti
- Gender: Female
- Industry: Communications or Media
- Occupation: Academic
- Location: Canberra : Australia
About Me
I'm a journalist and journalism academic from Canberra, Australia. I'm a digital immigrant but a journalism native! My media career began in the late 1980's in the industrial city of Wollongong where I worked as a news reporter/reader for commercial radio and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), eventually becoming the ABC's Regional News Editor. In the early 90's I moved to Sydney as a reporter with ABC TV Documentaries before returning to my first love, radio, with the flagship ABC current affairs programs AM, PM and the World Today. In 1997, I was posted to the Canberra Press Gallery as a political correspondent for these programs. My reporting focus was on social justice issues including Aborignal affairs and ethnic communities. While I still call myself a journalist, I moved into academia in 2003 and I now teach radio and television journalism at the University of Canberra*. Teaching inspires me and I learn something new every day from my students, but research is my current motivator. I'm undertaking a PhD on the way the media portray Muslim women while continuing research into multicultural journalism and public broadcasting.
Interests
- Studying
- Learning
- educating
- reading
- viewing
- writing
- walking (more accurately
- meandering)
- talking. Exploring new places and meeting new people. Art; music; antiques; social justice; politics; friendship; collecting vintage rags
- shoes
- bags etc etc etc; history; cooking LIKES: laughing; interesting people; foreign lands; the view from my front porch; dogs (well pretty much all animals
- really); dinner table debates; red wine
- warm crusty bread
- chocolate and squishy cheese DISLIKES: Bigots
- xenophobes
- racists; cruelty to animals; rising before dawn; gutless journalism; war
- injustice; violence against women and children; and (strangely) cucumber.
Favorite Movies
Favorite Music
- Kavisha Mazzella ('Wedding Sheets' and 'Big Blue Above' are among my all-time fave songs); KD Lang (Hymns of the 49th Parallel is among my favourite albums - ever!) Sarah Blasko; Missy Higgins; World Music (particularly French
- African and Indian); Jazz (anything by Ella Fitzgerald
- Louis Armstrong
- Diana Krall
- Billie Holiday; Miles Davis; India Arie); Tracey Chapman; Vika and Linda Bull; Sarah McLachlan; Debra Conway; Paul Kelly; Midnight Oil; Aretha Franklin; Dylan; Crowded House; Casey Chambers (shut up
- you critics!); Dixie Chicks; Archie Roach; Kev Carmody; TZU; The Herd; Bruce Springsteen (Loving the album 'Devils and Dust' right now!); Lucinda Williams (can't get her album 'West' out of my head!);Wailin' Jennys - 'One Voice' gives me chills! An eclectic selection
- eh?
Favorite Books
- To Kill a Mockingbird; Pride and Prejudice; Asking For Trouble+ Biko; Harry Potter series (lame
- yes
- but addictive!); All the President's Men; Little Women (shut up - again!); Brave New World; Song of Songs; my dictionary FAVOURITE QUOTES: " The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good wo/men to do nothing" Loosely quoted from Edmund Burke "Love justice
- act mercifully and walk humbly with your God" Micah "If it weren't for hope the heart would break" Thomas Fuller "I write what I like" Steve Biko (who was murdered by the South African Security Police on 12/09/77) I write emotional algebra" Anais Nin "I postpone death by living
- by suffering
- by error
- by risking
- by giving
- by loving." Anais Nin
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