Senior Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology

Co-Director of Journalism, Media and Democracy research center

I am experienced researcher, senior lecturer and tutor at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), School of Communication Studies in Auckland. I am part of the newly established Critical Media Studies department at the School. I am also co-director of AUT research centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD).

Before moving to academia, I worked as a financial and business journalist. I started my journalism career in Helsinki, Finland, and then worked in London, the United Kingdom, for 15 as a correspondent. I have experience in print, online and television journalism. I move to New Zealand in 2009, and to academia in 2011.

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Academic profile here.

Experience:

• Since December 2020, senior lecturer at AUT
• Since early 2019, co-director of JMAD
• Since February 2019, tenured lecturer at AUT
• 2017-2018, post-doctoral research fellow at AUT
• 2011-2019, project manager of JMAD
• 2011-2020, the author at JMAD
• 2011-2019, contract lecturer at AUT

Reviewing/editorial work:

• Editorial board member Media and Communication journal
• Editorial assistant for the special issues of the Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies and the Journalism and Mass Communication Educator.
• Reviewer for the Digital Journalism, Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies, Journalism Studies, Journal of Media Business Studies.

Teaching experience in

• Communication ethics
• Media, technology & society
• Media, politics and citizenship
• Journalism
• Media communication
• News media processes