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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Location | Canberra, Australia |
| Introduction | I'm a journalist & 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 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 & ethnic communities. While I still call myself a journalist, I moved into academia in 2003 & I now teach radio & television journalism @ the University of Canberra*. I'm doing a PhD on the Twitterisation of Journalism & I also research multicultural journalism, talk radio & public broadcasting. I'm the Australia correspondent for PBS Mediashift. You can read my stories here: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/julie-posetti-1 |
| 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 | Cry Freedom; Like Water for Chocolate; Broadcast News; When Harry Met Sally; Four Weddings and a Funeral; Woman of the Year; Gentleman's Agreement; Goodnight and Good luck; Romero; Shawshank Redemption; Bob Roberts; Casablanca |
| 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 |