Jenna Price is an Australian journalist and academic. As of 2021, she is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and The Sydney Morning Herald columnist.[1] She is one of the founders of the online feminist movement, Destroy The Joint.
Jenna Price | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1957-04-10 |
| Awards | Edna Ryan Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Technology Sydney |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Thesis | Destroying the joint: A case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women (2019) |
| Influences | Ariadne Vromen |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Technology, Sydney Australian National University |
Education and career edit
Price graduated with a BA in communications from the NSW Institute of Technology (now University of Technology, Sydney – UTS) in 1981.[2] She also holds an MA from UTS (2013), where she worked as lecturer for some years.[3] She received a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2019. Her thesis, "Destroying the joint: A case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women", is a history and assessment of the online feminist movement, Destroy The Joint, which she co-founded in 2012.[4][5]
While a student in the early 1980s, she worked as editorial assistant for Listening Post, the magazine published by volunteer radio station 2SER-FM.[6]
She joined The Sydney Morning Herald in February 1982.[7] In 1984 she worked on the first edition of The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide, edited by Leo Schofield and David Dale.[8] In the mid-1990s, Price was writing on women's[9] and human rights issues[10] for The Canberra Times.
Price was awarded an Edna Ryan Award for Media/Communication in 2012.[11]
She wrote the "2019 Women for Media Report: 'You can't be what you can't see'" for Women's Leadership Institute Australia.[12]
References edit
- ^ "Jenna Price". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
- ^ "Jenna Price". The Conversation. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ Price, Jenna (2013). 'I Can't Wait Til I'm an Actual Journalist': How Students Begin to Become Journalists (PDF) (Thesis).
- ^ Price, Jenna (2019). Destroying the joint: A case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women (PDF) (Thesis).
- ^ Nicholson, Larissa (8 October 2012). "Online and outraged: the people begin to talk back". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
- ^ "Despatches", Listening Post (17), Sydney Educational Broadcasting, 1 February 1981, ISSN 0157-6844
- ^ "Movements", Listening Post (30), Sydney Educational Broadcasting, 1 March 1982, ISSN 0157-6844
- ^ Connell, Jan (24 September 1980). "First Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide". Australian Food Timeline. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ Price, Jenna (30 July 1994). "Victimised women now hitting back". The Canberra Times. Vol. 69, no. 21, 654. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. p. 44. Retrieved 4 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Price, Jenna (23 July 1994). "Church v state: Clancy joins the Timor debate". The Canberra Times. Vol. 69, no. 21, 647. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. p. 15. Retrieved 4 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Past Recipients". Edna Ryan Awards. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
- ^ Price, Jenna; Payne, Anne Maree (2019). 2019 Women for Media Report: 'You can't be what you can't see'. Women's Leadership Institute Australia.