I am a senior lecturer in critical media studies at School of Communication Studies at the Auckland University of Technology.

I am also co-director of Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) research centre and currently lead the Trust in News in New Zealand project there.

I am also editorial board member Media and Communication journal, and reviewer for the Digital Journalism, Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies, Journalism Studies and Journal of Media Business Studies.

Latest research

“Consequences of platform payments hard to predict”

Digital Journalism

“Fewer than half of New Zealanders trust the news”

Kotuitui: NZ Journal of Social Science Online


“The Covid-19 escalated the magazine massacre”

The Conversation