MsChristine Kearney

Christine Kearney is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Journalism in the School of Communication. She aims to strengthen knowledge and practice within international news and media, including within the specialist field of foreign correspondence. She brings a long passion for telling the stories of the world in order to cultivate better understandings of global geopolitics and cultures. She has worked as a journalist for more than 25 years, extensively in international news, and has reported and edited media stories and journal articles covering many regions of the world, including the conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and Afghanistan. 

She has contributed as an international edition site editor for The Guardian. She spent ten years as a correspondent in New York for Reuters, including stints in Los Angeles, Toronto and Kabul, Afghanistan. She has delivered international stories across platforms for digital, radio current affairs and television, including for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and other media networks around the globe. 

She specialises in international, multimedia and digital journalism and her current research interests include international reporting and foreign correspondence, constructive journalism and work integrated learning (WIL) in Journalism education.

Her recent awards include the 2022 Journalism Education & Research Association of Australia (JERRA) national award for Outstanding Teaching in a Journalism Program for a newsroom integration project she founded and facilitated between UTS and SBS News. In addition, she also received a 2022 UTS FASS teaching and learning award for curriculum design and/or teaching and learning innovation and enhancement, through work integrated learning approaches in Journalism.

She also founded and hosted the UTS Media Salon, an event-series that unites one top international journalist or editor with a key academic for a lively discussion on a big picture media topic.