Dr Jacqui Ewart

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B Arts, M Arts, PhD

Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities

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Research expertise

  • Online media
  • Newspapers and readership
  • Democracy and community media
  • Public Journalism
  • Media representation

Current teaching areas

  • Journalism
  • Public Relations

Publications

  • Rane, H., Ewart, J., & Abdalla, M. (eds). (2009). Islam and the Australian News Media, Melbourne University Press,Melbourne, forthcoming.
  • Ewart, J. (2009). 'Dr Haneef and the Media', in Rane, H., Ewart, J., & Abdalla, M. (eds), Islam and the Australian News Media, Melbourne University Press,Melbourne, forthcoming.
  • Massey, B.L. & Ewart, J. (2009). ‘Australian Journalists and Commitment to Organisational Change', Media International Australia, forthcoming.
  • Meadows, M., Forde, S., Ewart, J., & Foxwell, K. (2009). "Making good sense: transformative processes in community journalism", Journalism, Vol 10 (2): 155-170.
  • Meadows, M.,Forde, S., Ewart, J., & Foxwell, K. (2009). 'A catalyst for change? Australian community broadcasting audiences fight back', in Notions of Community: A collection of community media debates and dilemmas, Peter Lang, Switzerland.
  • Meadows, M., Forde, S., Ewart, J., & Foxwell, K. (2008). 'Making spaces: independent media and the formation of the democratic public sphere in Australia', in D. Kidd, L. Stein and C. Rodriguez (eds), Making Our Media: mapping global initiatives toward a democratic public sphere, Cresskill, Hampton Press.
  • Ewart, J., & Massey, B.L. (2008) 'Corporate Change and Australian Regional Newspapers', in State of the News Print Media in Australia, Australian Press Council, Sydney.
  • Ewart, J., & Posetti, J. (2008) 'The Reporting of the Mohammed Haneef story', in State of the News Print Media in Australia, Australian Press Council, Sydney.
  • Foxwell, K., Ewart, J., Meadows, M., &  Forde, S. (2008). "Sounds like a whisper: Australian Community Broadcasting hosts a quiet revolution", Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 5(1): 5-25.
  • Meadows, M., Forde, S., Ewart, J., & Foxwell, K. (2007). "Empowering audiences: transformative processes in Australian community broadcasting", Australian Journalism Review 29(1), 27-40.
  • Meadows, M., Forde, S., Ewart, J., & Foxwell, K. (2007.) "The power and the passion: a study of Australian community broadcasting audiences 2004-2007", Global Media Journal 1(1), online, available at http://stc.uws.edu.au/gmjau/current_toc.html
  • Ewart, J., Forde, S., Foxwell, K., & Meadows, M. (2007). Community media and the public sphere in Australia, in V. Nightingale and T. Dwyer (eds), New Media Worlds, Melbourne, Oxford University Press.
  • Meadows, M., Forde, S., Ewart, J., & Foxwell, K. (2007). 'Through the smokescreen: community broadcasting in Australia', in Alternative Media: idealism and pragmatism, (eds) N. Chitty and S. Rattikalchalakorn, Southbound, Penang
  • Ewart, J (2007) Changing newsroom culture by putting Readers First: How Australian journalists reacted to a corporate-change program, Media International Australia, November: 15-28.
  • Ewart, J and Cokley, J (2007) Women and Male Hegemony in Regional and Rural Newspapers, Journal of Australian Studies, No 90: 155-164.
  • Ewart, Meadows, Forde, Foxwell (2007). 'Community media and the public sphere in Australia', New Media Worlds, Virginia Nightingale and Tim Dwyer (eds) Oxford University Press, Melbourne: in press.
  • Meadows, Forde, Ewart, Foxwell (2007). 'Making spaces: independent media and the formation of the democratic public sphere in Australia', edited by Kidd, Stein and Rodriguez, Mapping Our Media, Cresskill: Hampton Press.
  • Meadows, M., Forde, S., Ewart, J. & Foxwell, K. (2007). 'Through the smokescreen: Community broadcasting in Australia', in N. Chitty and S. Rattichalkalakorn (eds.), Alternative Media: Idealism and Pragmatism, Southbound, Penang: 65-92.
  • Massey B and Ewart J (2007) 'Satisfaction of Australian Newspaper Journalists during Organizational Change', International Journal of Communication, Spring issue: 59-78.
  • Meadows, M, Forde, S, Ewart, J, Foxwell, K (2007). Empowering audiences: transformative processes in Australian community broadcasting, Australian Journalism Review., 27-40.
  • Ewart, J., & Massey, B.L. (2006). Exploring some of the factors that contribute to the use of ordinary people as news sources, Australian Journalism Review, 28 (1): 103-124.
  • Meadows, Forde, Ewart, Foxwell (2007). 'Making spaces: independent media and the formation of the democratic public sphere in Australia', edited by Kidd, Stein and Rodriguez, Mapping Our Media, Cresskill: Hampton Press.
  • Meadows, M., Forde, S., Ewart, J., and Foxwell, K. (2006). Creating an Australian community public sphere: the role of community radio, The Radio Journal, International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media No 3.(3): 171-187.
  • Forde, S, M. Meadows, J. Ewart & K. Foxwell (2006). "The untapped potential of participation: Evaluating audiences in the Australian community radio sector", Australian Studies in Journalism, No 16: 74-100.
  • Ewart, J., Meadows, M., Forde, S., & Foxwell. K. (2005).'Media matters: Ways to link community radio and community newspapers'. Australian Journalism Review, 27(2): 87-104.
  • Meadows, M., Forde, S., Ewart, J., & Foxwell. K. (2005). 'A perfect match? Qualitative research and the community media sector', 3CMedia, 1(1),
  • Ewart, J., & Massey, B.L. (2005). 'Local (people) mean the world to us': Australia's regional newspapers and the 'closer to readers' assumption, Media International Australia, No 115, May: 94-108.
  • Ewart and Cokley (2004 ) On the outer Barcoo: Sources of Independence, Australian Studies in Journalism, No. 13: 95-112.
  • Ewart J, Cokley J & Coates P (2004) Sourcing the news: Teaching journalism students a different approach to sourcing practices, Asia Pacific Media Educator, Issue 15: 33-46.
  • Ewart J (2004) Challenging Journalists thinking abut their role, Australian Journalism Review 26 (2): 55-68.
  • Ewart J (2003) Including women in the news: Does public journalism address the gender imbalance of the news sources used by journalists? Australian Studies in Journalism, No. 12: 213-228.
  • Ewart J (2003) News Connections: Regional newspapers and the web, Transformations No 7 (September)
  • Ewart J (2003) Searching the 'Net: A Study of Internet Search Techniques Used by Some Australian Journalists, Australian Journalism Review.
  • Ewart J (2002) Overlooked and Underused: How Australia's first public journalism project treated women and Indigenous people, Australian Journalism Review, Vol 24 (1): 61-82.
  • Ewart J and Tickle K (2002) Reviewing the Readership: Profiles of Central Queensland newspaper readers, Media International Australia, No 102: 126-146.
  • Ewart J and Gregor S (2001) Online Journalists Need More than the ABCs of Journalism, Australian Journalism Review, July, Vol 23 (1): 43-56.

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