[Commlist] Call for papers JERAA 2024 (Australia)

Call For Papers

2024 JERAA Conference

University of Melbourne

Wednesday 27 - Friday 29 November 2024

Early Career Researchers Day Tuesday 26 November 2024

*Forward: facing the next wave of journalism disruption*

‘Forward’ is about imagining and preparing for the future and then 
proceeding to face the challenges and possibilities ahead. For 
contemporary journalism, it implies critically anticipating and dealing 
with the consequences of seemingly endless waves of technological 
disruption. This year, the news industry - practitioners, educators, 
researchers and consumers - are experiencing the impacts of Artificial 
Intelligence, the defunding of news on digital platforms, copyright 
battles, further downsizing of media businesses and the belligerence of 
big tech, and all in the context of looming elections and global 
conflict. The 2024 JERAA conference will offer space to consider these 
pressing social and technological issues, as well as our role as 
educators and researchers in working to future-proof the industry, craft 
and discipline of journalism.

We invite abstracts (250 words) and panel proposals (300-400 words) with 
short bios (100 words max) that include (but are not exclusive to) 
industry and education discussions and theoretical and empirical 
research on the following themes:

**Digital platforms: The line in the sand or the “post social media” 
moment?*

Sovereign states versus Big Tech

The News Media Bargaining Code and its international adaptations

Trends and challenges for sovereign states in regulating digital platforms

The news media industry after the decline of news on social media

**Identity and news *

Australian journalism after The Voice referendum

First Nations media in Australia and across the globe

Race, feminism, LGBTQ+ inclusion in newsrooms and journalism

Safety and online abuse

**Activism, advocacy and journalism*

Freedom and journalism in war zones

New forms of journalism in conflict zones

Freedom fighters, civil rights and journalists in prison

Reportage in Gaza and Ukraine

Covering protests

**Misinformation, fact-checking and ethical behaviour*

Hyper-partisan and far-right media and the polarisation of news

Covering elections and political campaigns

Science journalism after COVID-19: climate change, health crises

Journalism ethics on trial, both legally and in the court of public opinion.

**Trauma, stigma and framing (for good or evil)*

Lessons from Bondi

Who is a terrorist?

Covering gendered violence

Guidelines for reporting suicide in Indigenous communities

**Educating and training journalists*

Learning and teaching journalism for international students in Australia

What to do about AI and journalism?

Podcasting and excellence in audio storytelling

New trends in authentic and experiential learning in journalism

Collaboration to tell big stories

*We have extended our submission deadline to 5pm on Monday 29 July 2024. 
Please send your abstracts or panel proposals to this email: 
(jeraa-2024 /at/ unimelb.edu.au)*

The Centre for Advancing Journalism warmly invites you to the JERAA 
conference on the campus of the University of Melbourne on the lands of 
Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung People during the last week of November 2024. 
The JERAA Early Career Researchers Day will be held on Tuesday 26 
November, followed by the main conference between Wednesday and Friday 
27-29 November.

On Wednesday 27 November we will hold a joint session with the annual 
AANZCA (Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association) 
conference. This rare occasion will be an opportunity to network with 
colleagues and discuss issues that are critical to both associations. We 
will also host AANZCA for a joint celebration to mark the end of their 
conference and the beginning of ours.

*We encourage AANZCA members to stay on and participate at JERAA. For 
those intending to do so, we offer a 15% discount on the conference price. *

**

Our first three keynote speakers

**Investigative journalist Gerard Ryle will discuss Collaborative 
Journalism as a way to fight disruption in a Q&A-style conference 
discussion.*

Gerard is the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-award winning director of the 
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in 
Washington, DC. He led the worldwide teams of journalists who worked on 
the Offshore Leaks, Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Implant Files, 
FinCEN Files, and Pandora Papers investigations - the six biggest 
collaborations in journalism history.  The Pandora Papers project 
involved more than 600 journalists at more than 150 news outlets in 117 
countries working together. Gerard has won and shared in more than 90 
major journalism awards from eight countries, including five Walkley 
Awards. In 2021, ICIJ was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

**Award-winning ABC journalist Bridget Brennan will deliver a keynote 
address on critical topics including reporting on Indigenous affairs and 
violence against women.*

Bridget has been a journalist with the Australian Broadcasting 
Corporation for more than a decade. A Dja Dja Wurrung, Yorta Yorta 
woman, she is a newsreader and presenter at News Breakfast, and recently 
the Indigenous Affairs Editor at ABC. In 2017, Bridget was appointed the 
ABC’s first National Indigenous Affairs Correspondent, reporting on the 
murders of Aboriginal women in Central Australian communities, and 
investigated racism in Australia’s health system and the escalating 
number of Aboriginal children being removed from their families. Last 
year, Bridget was a fellow with the Reuters Institute for the Study of 
Journalism at Oxford Universities where she researched the global 
pressures facing First Nations reporters in mainstream newsrooms. 
Bridget, together with Brooke Fryer, Suzanne Dredge and Stephanie 
Zillman won the 2023 Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill for their Four 
Corners investigation “How Many More?” which shone a light on the crisis 
of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

**US researcher Casey Mock*, Chief Policy and Public Affairs Officer at 
the Center for Humane Technology, will examine AI and deception at the 
2024 JERAA Conference. Casey’s address will consider how AI disturbs 
coverage of this year's US Presidential Election. He will discuss latest 
CHT research that explores how misinformation/disinformation harms 
people's right to freedom of speech, and freedom to think, and what 
journalists can do to constructively respond.

Further information about other keynote speakers, panel sessions and the 
Early Career Researchers Day will be provided in the coming weeks.

Ticketing details will also be provided shortly

Learn more about JERAA by visiting its website: 
https://jeraa.org.au/news/ <https://jeraa.org.au/news/>

Further information:

Main conference email:  (jeraa-2024 /at/ unimelb.edu.au)

Andrew Dodd (adodd /at/ unimelb.edu.au)

Caroline James-Garrod (caroline.jamesgarrod /at/ unimelb.edu.au)

Silvia Montana Nino (silvia.montanan /at/ unimelb.edu.au)

Sami Shah (sami.shah /at/ unimelb.edu.au)

Louisa Lim (louisa.lim /at/ unimelb.edu.au)

JERAA 2024 is supported by the University of Melbourne’s Centre for 
Advancing Journalism, Mindframe, Our Watch, Dart Asia Pacific, and Media 
Super.

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