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Dr Alexandra Wake
OccupationAssociate Professor of Journalism, RMIT
PositionPresident of JERAA
Qualifications
  • PhD
  • GradCert
  • MA (Research)
  • CERTA
Alma Mater
  • Deakin University
  • RMIT
  • QUT
  • Cambridge University

Alexandra Wake is the President of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA)[1] and an Associate Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).[2] Wake is Programs Manager of the Graduate Diploma in Journalism at RMIT[3] and sits on the university's Academic Board.[4][5]

Wake is a member of the UNESCO UniTwin Network on Gender, Media and ICTS.[6] She is also an Education Advisor to Mindframe for Journalists[7] and a member of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma Asia Pacific (where she was Board Director from 2016 to 2019).[8] Wake is the editor and co-author of the book Transnational Broadcasting in the Indo Pacific: The battle for trusted news and information (2024).[9] As of January 2025, she is working on an ARC Discovery Project exploring Australian journalism and trauma,[10] and an NHMRC project examining the stigmatization of mental illness through media.[11][12]

Prior to academia, Wake worked as a journalist in Australia and overseas for over 25 years.[1] This included a 23-year career at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

Academia

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JERAA

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Alexandra Wake has been the President of JERAA since 2018.[2] She is in her second elected term as President and has served on the executive for over a decade. JERAA runs yearly conferences to discuss issues and advancements in journalism education and research.[13] As JERAA President, Wake has negotiated external funding for the organisation (including grants for collaborative reporting projects from the Judith Nielson Institute).[14]

As JERAA President, Wake is an active participant in the Australian media landscape. She has participated in six parliamentary submissions on Australia media and communications, and has given testimony to others. She is a frequent contributor to media publications, including The Conversation, Crickey, The Interpreter, and The Age. Articles such as 'Latest $84 million cuts rip the heart out of the ABC, and our democracy' have been referenced and republished internationally.[15]

RMIT

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Wake is an Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication, in the College of Design and Social Context (DSC).[1] She has worked at RMIT since 2004, and has previously taught at Deakin University (Melbourne) and the Dubai Women's College of the Higher Colleges of Technology.[5]

Wake has created partnership programs between RMIT and other organizations. In 2020, she organized an online conference for JERAA named 'Transformations in journalism and research, education and practice.'[16] For this work, she was conferred the Dean's Award for Program Impact and Engagement.[1] According to her RMIT profile, she won the award again in 2022.[1] In 2020 she also received the Dean's Award for Indigenous Engagement for her collaboration with IndigenousX.[1] In 2019, Wake secured funding for students from around Australia to produce two national television programs from RMIT's television studios: Australia Votes[17] and Constructive Journalism.[18] She has been recognised by RMIT for this external media contribution. According to her RMIT profile, she received the School of Design and Social Context's Media Star Award five times (2017–2022).[1]

Research

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Wake's research is focused on improving the output of journalists through education, by encouraging ethical and inclusive reporting.[1] Wake completed her PhD thesis in 2015, titled Aiding journalism: Australian journalism educators and their work in post-conflict states.[19] In 2024, Wake edited and co-authored, Transnational Broadcasting in the Indo-Pacific: The battle for trusted news and information (2024).[9] This book investigates the challenges facing media in the Indo-Pacific region, like the dissemination of misinformation and propaganda through social media.[9] Wake has also published peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters for Routledge and Springer, and dozens of articles across Australian and international media outlets.[20]

Wake is a contributor to global scholarly conferences such as JERAA's annual conference,[21] the World Journalism Education Congress[22] and the Australia New Zealand Communications Association Conferences (AANZCA).[23] In 2021, she led a 'Fact Checking Roundtable' funded by UNESCO through the World Journalism Education Council (WJEC). She co-authored a report in July 2024 which outlined the Roundtable's insights and findings.[24]

Advocacy and engagement

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Wake is involved in national and international journalism networks which seek to improve journalism curriculum and training. She is a member of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and was Director of the Board of the Asia Pacific Chapter from 2016 to 2019.[25] From 2021-2023, Wake worked with the Dart Centre on a study titled, Embedding Trauma Literacy Into Curriculum: An Examination of the Attitudes of Australian and New Zealand Journalism Educators.[26]

Wake also works with Mindframe, which endeavors to improve safe media reporting about mental health, suicide, alcohol and other drugs.[7] Wake is a part of the Mindframe Journalism and Public Relations Education Advisory Group.[7] The team has presented at conferences including the 2020 JERAA Conference.[27]

Wake works with UNESCO's UniTwin Network on Gender, Media and ICTS, to advocate for gender diversity in global newsrooms.[6] As a researcher for the network, Wake "develops international cooperative projects"[6] and has co-edited the Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal.[28] In June 2024, Wake spoke on the ABC's PM Radio regarding the dissatisfaction of women working in media.[29] In 2019, she wrote a chapter on 'Reporting "OTHER" cultures' in the book Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Subjects.[30]

Journalism

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Prior to her move to academia, Wake had an extensive career in journalism. According to an interview to Upstart in 2010, Wake worked at Morning Bulletin in Rockhampton, the Daily Mercury in Mackay and the Daily Star in Dublin before beginning a 23-year career at the ABC in 1992.[31][5] Wake worked as News Editor in the Central Queensland Newsroom, and as Senior Journalist and News Reader in Brisbane.[5]

In the late 1990s, Wake was sent to the South African Broadcasting Corporation to provide broadcast journalism training. She wrote her Master's thesis on this program in 2002, titled Measuring the success of ABC training in South Africa: A case study in the production of Western Liberal broadcast news values.[32] During her early days in academia, Wake continued to work as a Senior Journalist at the ABC's Pacific News Centre and Radio Australia.[5] She worked her last shift at the ABC in 2015.[5]

Notable publications

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Academic

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  • Transnational Broadcasting in the Indo-Pacific: The Battle for Trusted News and Information, edited by Wake 2024.[9]
  • 'Fact check: still not core curriculum', Pacific Journalism Review: Te Koakoa, by Wake et al. 2024.[24]
  • 'The different worlds of Google – A comparison of search results on conspiracy theories in 12 countries', Convergence, by Wake et al. 2023.[33]
  • 'Happiness and the student journalist', in Happiness in Journalism, by Wake and Smith 2023.[34]
  • 'Embedding trauma literacy into curriculum: An examination of the attitudes of Australian and New Zealand journalism educators', Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, by Wake et al. 2023.[26]
  • ‘Stigmatizing and mitigating elements of a TV news report on violent crime and severe mental illness: An experiment’, Stigma and Health, by Wake et al. 2022.[35]

Media

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  • 'Powerful groups have hijacked Australian media narratives on climate change, new analysis shows', Crikey, by Wake 2024.[36]
  • 'We analysed 30 years of Australian media articles – and unearthed some glaring gaps in the coverage', The Conversation, by Wake 2024.[37]
  • 'Uni protests are messy, but they prove that campuses have come back to life', The Age, by Wake 2024.[38]
  • 'India's crackdown on journalists a sour note in the festival of democracy', The Interpreter, by Wake 2024.[39]
  • 'As China's influence on Pacific media intensifies, Australia can't afford to lose the region's trust', The Conversation, by Wake and Morieson 2024.[40]
  • 'What makes a journalist? Let's write professional accreditation into the job', Crikey, by Wake and Lidberg 2023.[41]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Alexandra Wake". RMIT University. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  2. ^ a b "Executive – Jeraa". JERAA. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  3. ^ "Graduate Diploma in Journalism". RMIT University. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  4. ^ "Academic Board". RMIT University. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "ORCID". ORCID. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  6. ^ a b c "WHO WE ARE". UNESCO UNITWIN NETWORK ON GENDER, MEDIA AND ICTs. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  7. ^ a b c "Mindframe Journalism and Public Relations Education Advisory Group". Mindframe. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  8. ^ "People". Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. 22 July 2015. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  9. ^ a b c d Wake, Alexandra, ed. (2024). Transnational Broadcasting in the Indo Pacific. London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-47571-9. ISBN 978-3-031-47570-2.
  10. ^ "Grant — DP240101293 — Monash University". Australian Research Council. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  11. ^ "51 Monash projects awarded in ARC Discovery Projects scheme". Monash University. 2023-11-01. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  12. ^ "Mitigating the impact of the media on stigmatising attitudes towards people with severe mental illness". Research Data Australia. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  13. ^ "ABOUT - JERAA CONFERENCE 2024". JERAA. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  14. ^ "JERAA hails Judith Neilson Institute Constructive Journalism Project". jeraa.org.au. 2020-06-22. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  15. ^ Wake, Alexandra; Ward, Michael (2020-07-01). "Latest $84 million cuts rip the heart out of the ABC, and our democracy". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  16. ^ "2020 Conference theme announced". JERAA. 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  17. ^ Wake, Alexandra (2019-06-10). "Australian first student national election TV broadcast". JERAA. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  18. ^ "Campuses Collaborate to Construct New Journalism". JERAA. 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  19. ^ Wake, Alexandra (2015). Aiding journalism: Australian journalism educators and their work in post conflict states (PhD thesis). Deakin University. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  20. ^ "Alexandra Wake". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
  21. ^ "Previous conferences". JERAA. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
  22. ^ "2025 Congress Committee". WJEC 2025. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  23. ^ "Conferences & Events". AANZCA. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
  24. ^ a b Wake, Alexandra; Gordon, Farrer; Thomas, Sonny (2024-07-01). "Fact check: Still not core journalism curriculum: Report from WJEC Roundtable". Pacific Journalism Review: Te Koakoa. 30 (1): 48–62. doi:10.24135/pjr.v30i1and2.1329 – via Research Gate.
  25. ^ "Home". Dart Center For Journalism & Trauma. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
  26. ^ a b Wake, Alexandra; Smith, Erin; Ricketson, Matthew (2023-04-11). "Embedding Trauma Literacy Into Curriculum: An Examination of the Attitudes of Australian and New Zealand Journalism Educators". Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. 78 (2): 112–126. doi:10.1177/10776958231164199 – via Sage Journals.
  27. ^ "Mindframe team presents to leaders in journalism research, practice and education". Mindframe. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  28. ^ "NEWS". UNESCO UNITWIN NETWORK ON GENDER, MEDIA and ICTs. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
  29. ^ "A third of women in media want to quit, report finds". ABC listen. 2024-06-10. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
  30. ^ Wake, Alexandra (2019). "Reporting "OTHER" cultures". In Luce, Anne (ed.). Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781351166324.
  31. ^ "Alex Wake - Working Journalist profile". upstart. 2010-05-23. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
  32. ^ Wake, Alexandra (2002). Measuring the success of ABC training in South Africa: A case study in the production of Western Liberal broadcast news values (Masters thesis). Queensland University of Technology. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  33. ^ von Nordheim, Gerret; Bettels-Schwabbauer, Tina; Kleinen-von Königslöw, Katharina; Barczyszyn-Madziarz, Paulina; Budivska, Halyna; Di Salvo, Philip; Dingerkus, Filip; Guazina, Liziane Soares; Krobea Asante, Kwaku; Kuś, Michał; Lábová, Sandra; Matei, Antonia; Merkovity, Norbert; Paulino, Fernando Oliveira; Wake, Alexandra (2024-12-01). "The different worlds of Google – A comparison of search results on conspiracy theories in 12 countries". Convergence. 30 (6): 2267–2286. doi:10.1177/13548565231203102. ISSN 1354-8565. Retrieved 2025-01-17 – via SageJournals.
  34. ^ Wake, Alexandra; Smith, Erin (2023). "Teaching Student Journalists to Refill their Happiness Tanks". Happiness in Journalism. pp. 147–156. doi:10.4324/9781003364597-19. ISBN 978-1-003-36459-7.
  35. ^ Morgan, Amy J.; Ross, Anna M.; Wake, Alexandra.; Jorm, Anthony F.; Kashihara, Jun; Reavley Nicola J. (2022) ‘Stigmatizing and mitigating elements of a TV news report on violent crime and severe mental illness: An experiment’, Stigma and Health, 8(1), pp. 93–101. doi: 10.1037/sah0000358.
  36. ^ Wake, Alexandra (2024-08-19). "Powerful groups have hijacked Australian media narratives on climate change, new analysis shows". Crikey. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  37. ^ Wake, Alexandra (2024-05-24). "We analysed 30 years of Australian media articles – and unearthed some glaring gaps in the coverage". The Conversation. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  38. ^ Wake, Alexandra (2024-05-09). "Protests have brought university campuses back to life". The Age. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  39. ^ Wake, Alexandra (2024-05-03). "India's crackdown on journalists a sour note in the festival of democracy | Lowy Institute". The Interpreter. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  40. ^ Wake, Alexandra; Morieson, Lucy (2024-04-16). "As China's influence on Pacific media intensifies, Australia can't afford to lose the region's trust". The Conversation. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  41. ^ Wake, Alexandra; Lidberg, Johan (2023-05-23). "What makes a journalist? Let's write professional accreditation into the job". Crikey.
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