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Dr Caroline Graham

Lecturer in Digital Journalism

School of Communication and Arts
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
caroline.graham@uq.edu.au
+61 7 334 68383
0407374495

Overview

Dr Caroline Graham is an award-winning investigative journalist who specialises in narrative non-fiction storytelling across both traditional and new media formats, including podcasting, data-driven reporting and longform creative non-fiction. Caroline is the co-author of the Australian bestseller Larrimah (Allen & Unwin, 2021), which was shortlisted for an Indie Book Award, Ned Kelly Award and two Davitt Awards. Caroline is also the co-author and co-producer of the investigative true crime podcast series Lost in Larrimah (The Australian, 2018), which won a Walkley Award, an NT Media Award and was a finalist in the Quills Awards and the Australian Podcasting Awards. In addition to writing feature stories and creative non-fiction for a range of publications (including The Australian, The Weekend Australian Magazine and The Guardian), Caroline has co-authored Writing Feature Stories: How to research and write articles, from listicles to longform (Routledge, 2017). She has received a national Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for her approach to teaching data-driven journalism and has co-ordinated student-authored data-driven investigations for The Guardian, Crikey and New Corp Australia. In 2023, she co-wrote/co-produced the ABC Landline documentary Outback Musical, as well as an accompanying multimedia feature that won a Clarion Award. She has also investigated (for The Australian, 2023) access to education in remote parts of the Northern Territory, supported by a Meta/Walkley Foundation grant for public interest journalism. She also writes fiction, has worked as a consulting producer/script editor on podcast series and has written for or collaborated on a number of hybrid new media or cross-platform projects.

Caroline’s academic research interests centre around the application of journalistic ethics and traditions to emerging media formats, including data-driven reporting methodologies, the ethics of true crime podcasting, the evolution of narrative journalism formats, notions of subjectivity in a new-media landscape, regional, rural and remote reporting and the emerging solutions journalism movement. Through her work on the Larrimah projects, she also has an enduring interest in Northern Territory war and rail history, the myth of the outback, small towns, the Australian identity and missing persons cases. She is open to public-interest collaborations with industry or the not-for-profit sector, as well as cross-disciplinary research and practice opportunities.

Research Interests

  • Narrative non-fiction
    Narrative non-fiction, investigative reporting, longform journalism, podcasting, data-driven reporting.
  • New ethical models for journalism
    Rethinking journalistic ethics in the context of new media formats and genres—from the production of true crime podcasts to data-driven reporting—and the role of the audience in an ethics of consumption.
  • Data-driven reporting
    The context for data-driven journalism, data-driven reporting methodologies, political data-driven reporting, teaching data methodologies.

Qualifications

  • Masters of Creative Industries(Creative Writing), University of Wollongong
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wollongong
  • Bachelor of Arts, Bond University
  • Bachelor of Journalism, Bond University

Publications

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Supervision

  • Reversing the Algorithm Effect: Investigating the role of hybrid digital journalism in bridging the gap between mainstream media and culturally diverse communities

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Frontlines of Science and the power of place in science podcasts

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Reconciling the conflict between journalists' perceived audiences and actual audiences to produce a collaborative model for contemporary digital journalism.

    Doctor Philosophy

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Available Projects

  • Proposals welcome

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Publications

Book

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Other Outputs

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Reversing the Algorithm Effect: Investigating the role of hybrid digital journalism in bridging the gap between mainstream media and culturally diverse communities

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Frontlines of Science and the power of place in science podcasts

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Reconciling the conflict between journalists' perceived audiences and actual audiences to produce a collaborative model for contemporary digital journalism.

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Are new legislations to protect national security slowly killing our societal watchdog? Safeguarding freedom of speech in relation to new national security laws.

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

Possible Research Projects

Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.

  • Proposals welcome

This staff member is a UQ Expert for media in the following fields:

media, journalism, podcasting, true crime, data journalism, new media, ethics, outback australia

They are happy to lend their expertise to your articles or broadcasts and share their research discoveries and insights with the community via media channels.

For additional assistance with story ideas, general advice and information or help with seeking further experts, please email the UQ Media Team or telephone (07) 3365 1120.

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