Penny O’Donnell joined the Department of Media and Communications in 2008 following her appointment as a Senior Lecturer in International Media and Journalism. She is developing and teaching MECO 6926 International Media Practice, a new core unit in the department’s postgraduate program. Her research interests include global media and communication, journalism studies, media and cultural literacies, and media and multiculturalism. Her publications include two monographs, a co-authored book and two edited collections of conference papers, several book chapters and numerous articles. From 1998 to 2007, Penny held a Senior Lectureship in the Journalism Program at the University of Technology, Sydney, and achieved national recognition for her creative approach to teaching journalism studies. Prior to this, she had a successful career in radio journalism, culminating as a producer on ABC Radio National’s breakfast program. She has also worked extensively in book publishing, community radio and newswire reporting in Australia, Mexico and Nicaragua. She is currently co-convenor with Dr Tanja Dreher (UTS) and Dr Justine Lloyd (Macquarie) of The Listening Project, a research program exploring the politics, technologies and practices of listening sponsored by the ARC Cultural Research Network.

• Excellence in journalism
• Journalism and culture
• Community media, diversity and social inclusion
• Media and the politics, technologies and practices of listening0
• International media practice
• Journalism studies

• Grants

• ARC Linkage, with Dr David McKnight (UNSW) and the Walkley Foundation
• 'From Rivers of Gold to the Clickstream: Newspapers and Quality Journalism in the Internet'
• This project will enhance Australian democracy by providing a scholarly basis for public discussion about the ways that quality journalism can survive in the Internet age. It will create knowledge about the specifically Australian experience of newspapers' transition to online media services and will thus help Australian citizens and journalists engage in global debates about journalism futures. It will create knowledge about the workplace conditions that foster quality journalism. It will showcase Australian research in international scholarly debate within the field of Journalism Studies.

• Books

• O’Donnell, P. 2005, Why journalism education matters: An analysis of the third wave of Australian journalism education (1987-2001), University of Technology, Sydney, Unpublished PhD thesis.
• O'Donnell, P., Simons, L. 1995, Australians against racism: Testimonies from the anti-apartheid movement in Australia, Pluto Press, Sydney.
• O'Donnell, P. 1995, Dar la palabra al pueblo. La enseñanza-aprendizaje de la comunicación en Nicaragua durante la revolución popular sandinista [Giving voice to the people. Teaching and learning communication in Nicaragua during the Sandinista Popular Revolution], Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
• O'Donnell, P., Cunningham, S. (eds.) 1994, Who's telling the story? A conference on media and development in Australia and the region, Community Aid Abroad, Fitzroy, Vic.
• O’Donnell, P. (Ed.), 1990, Una decada de la radio en Nicaragua—una conferencia nacional [A Decade of Nicaraguan Radio—A national conference,] Central American University, Managua.

• Book Chapters

• (In preparation) O’Donnell, P. ‘Mapping education and research in Australian journalism—A national report’, (Eds. S. Tapsall and R. Goodman), Hampton Press, Cresskill, NJ.
• O'Donnell, P. 2007, 'Communication Professions and Academic Research' in The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Blackwell Publishing, Germany, pp. 1 -7.
• Emberson, J. & O’Donnell, P. 1995, ‘Coming Out on race and gender’, in The Coming Out Show: twenty years of feminist ABC radio, (Eds. L. Fell & C. Wenzel), ABC Books, Sydney.

• Journal Articles

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• MECO3609 Critical Practice in Media