Stephen Tanner

Experience

• –present
  Professor of Journalism, University of Wollongong
• 2005–2008
  Associate Professor in Journalism, University of Wollongong
• 2002–2005
  Senior Lecturer in Journalism , Murdoch University
• 1999–2002
  Lecturer in Journalism, University of Queensland
• 1994–1999
  Associate Lecturer in Politics, University of Tasmania
• 1984–1989
  Press Secretary, Premier of Tasmania, Tasmanian Government
• 1980–1984
  Journalist, Examiner Newspaper, Launceston

Education

• 1999 
  UTAS, PhD
• 1990 
  UTAS, MA
• 1980 
  UTAS, BA

Publications

• 2013
  Journalism Research and Investigation in a Digital World, SJ Tanner and N. Richardson Eds, OUP.
• 2012
  Feature Writing: Telling the Story (2nd ed), SJ Tanner, M. Kasinger and N. Richardson, OUP
• 2009
  Feature Writing: Telling the Story (First Ed), SJ Tanner, M. Kasinger and N. Richardson, OUP
• 2008
  Media, Politics and Power in Australia, N. Economou and SJ Tanner
• 2005
  Journalism Ethics at Work, SJ Tanner, G. Phillips, C. Smyth and S Tapsall, Pearson-Longman
• 2002
  Journalism Investigation and Research, SJ Tanner (ed). Longman-Pearson

Grants and Contracts

• 2010
  Graduate Qualities and Journalism Curriculum Renewal: Balancing Tertiary Expectations and Industry Needs in a Changing Environment

  Role:

  Project Leader

  Funding Source:

  OLT

• 2009
  Vulnerability and the News Media: INvestigating print media coverage of groups deemed to be vulnerable in Australian society, and the media's understanding of their status.

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  ARC