Universities team to showcase public interest journalism

Oct 25, 2018 at 02:06 am by Staff


Journalism students from 11 Australian universities are cooperating on a new platform to showcase public interest journalism and storytelling.

The Junction aims to explore new ways for students across the country to work together. Editor Andrew Dodd says the "novel publication model" has all the member journalism programmes able to publish direct, rather than through a central commissioning and gatekeeping process.

Taking part are Deakin, Edith Cowan, Monash, Swinburne and Southern Cross universities, UNSW Sydney, RMIT, and the universities of Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney.

Senior lecturer in media at UNSW Christopher Kremmer says the initiative supports a growing emphasis at UNSW on immersing students in the latest media industry practices, "preparing them to compete in a fast-changing media environment".

Coinciding with the launch, six Victorian universities are working together on The Junction to cover the November 24 state election.

Deputy editor Kayt Davies, who is head of Edith Cowan University's journalism major, says the role of the editorial board will be to steer the site and create opportunities for universities to work together. "Australia's journalism schools have highly experienced journalists serving as mentors and lecturers, so it is fitting that they use those skills to promote the best of their students' work."

The Junction is published and owned by the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia on behalf of the journalism programmes.

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