Australasian Update, Autumn 2007

A founding member of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma – Australasia board, Professor Kerry Green, has worked in, or taught, journalism since 1967.

In mid-2005, he joined the University of South Australia as Professor and Head of its School of Communication, Information and New Media, having previously been Associate Professor and Head of the University of Canberra’s School of Professional Communication.

Professor Green began his career at the regional daily newspaper The Cairns Post, later working at Brisbane’s then afternoon daily The Telegraph and the Ipswich-based regional daily Queensland Times.

His wide-ranging newsroom experience spans time as a reporter, a newsroom manager, deputy editor (The Cairns Post and The Telegraph) and editor (Queensland Times).

He moved into academia full-time in 1989 when he began lecturing at the University of Queensland. His tertiary qualifications include an economics degree, a Bachelor of Arts in Literary Studies, and a Masters and PhD in Journalism.

Professor Green has a strong journalism research background and is project leader of a major Australia Research Council-funded research project on Trauma and the Newsroom.

He also is a researcher on the Reporting Diversity and Integration Project, funded by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, and a member of the UNESCO Communication Network in Australia.

He is a past president of the national Journalism Education Association and is a member of the editorial board of the Australian Journalism Review.

Professor Green’s other research interests include investigative journalism, computer-assisted and multimedia journalism, and news media organisation and management.