Dr Margaret Simons

Office: EW110
Telephone: +61 3 9214 8761/ 5611
Email: msimons@swin.edu.au

Margaret Simons is an award-winning freelance journalist and the author of seven books and numerous essays and articles. She is currently developing an undergraduate course in Journalism for Swinburne University of Technology and establishing The Flemington Map which will be Australia's first sustained experiment in internet based hyperlocal journalism. Margaret is the chair of the board of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation. She blogs on journalism and the media at The Content Makers and is a regular contributor to Creative Economy and Crikey.

Research Interests

- Media policy

- Innovations in Journalism

Current Research Activities

- The Flemington Map: an experiment in internet based hyperlocal journalism

Publications and Other Research Outputs

Go to Swinburne Research Bank

Postgraduate Supervision

Current Students

Bill Birnbauer (The future of investigative reporting in Australia)

Karen Kissane (Quality journalism, vulnerability and ethics: writing about the Black Saturday Bushfires 2009)

Kathrin Schmieder (Participative Photography and Photojournalism)