Rate My Professor Josie Vine

Vine's research engages with journalism history and culture, emphasizing Australian journalism's larrikin tradition, public interest journalism's role in democracy, hyperlocal and regional journalism, news values, ethics, regulation, and journalistic freedom. Key publications include the monograph 'Larrikins, Rebels and Journalistic Freedom in Australia' (2021), co-authored book 'Newspaper Building Design and Journalism Cultures in Australia and the UK, 1855–2010' (2023, with Carole O'Reilly), 'A Question of Ethics: The Challenges for Journalism Practice as a Mode of Research' (2016, Journal of Media Practice, cited 15 times), 'News Values and Country Non-Daily Reporting' (2001, cited 12 times), and 'The Phenomenology of Legacy Journalism in a Hyperlocal Media Context: A Self-Reflective Analysis' (2024). Her scholarship has garnered over 90 citations on Google Scholar. Before academia, she worked as a journalist in regional Victoria print and radio from 1996 to 2006 and currently serves as local government reporter for the hyperlocal news outlet The Westsider. She holds memberships in the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia, Australian Media Traditions, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (Journalism History division), Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Melbourne Press Club, and Local Independent Newspaper Association.