Dr Alex Wake

Biography

"Alex is a senior lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, but she still considers herself a journalist after starting as a cadet reporter at a newspaper in regional Australia 30 years ago.Initially trained in print, Alex has adapted to other technologies and now boasts a career spanning radio, television and on-line with a special interest in international reporting. She has lived and worked in Ireland, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, as well as Australia. While working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Alex spent time training journalists at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. She also spent three years as a journalism educator at Dubai Women's College in the United Arab Emirates. Alex still works as freelance journalist and news reader when her teaching and research activities allow. Many of Alex's research and teaching projects are aimed at improving the understanding of journalists working with people from other other cultures and improving the portrayal of multicultural and Indigenous Australian groups in the media. Her work acknowledges the value to society of journalists reporting upon traumatic events, and is concerned that media professionals are actively encouraged to protect their mental health while working on these stories."

Research Interest

Journalism