Communication studies news

Independent NZ media ownership booms

The 2020 JMAD Media Ownership report highlights key trends, including the impact of COVID-19 on readership, ad revenue and journalism jobs.

New Professors and Associate Professors

Nine academics have been appointed to the position of Professor, effective from 1 January 2021. 19 academics have been appointed as Associate Professors.

Professor gets horror studies editorship

The new Principal Editor of Lexington Books Horror Studies plans to expand the reach of horror into the broader landscape of popular culture.

Design & Creative Tech Postgrad Awards

The 2020 Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies Postgraduate Awards recognise the top honours, master’s and doctoral students who graduated in 2020.

Privilege loss

Thomas Owen, senior lecturer, writer, film maker and researcher in AUT’s School of Communication Studies is researching privilege loss.

Freemasons Scholarship recipients 2020

Meet Joshua Iosefo and Olaf Wrieden, the 2020 AUT recipients of the Freemasons Scholarship.

AUT launches new advertising campaign

AUT graduates are telling the story in their own words of how their AUT experience inspired them and shaped their lives and futures.

PJR spotlights media strain in Melanesia

Hostile media environments pose growing challenges to Melanesia’s democracies, finds AUT’s latest Pacific Journalism Review.

Technology, journalism and democracy

Dr Merja Myllylahti, co-director of the research centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy explores how technology is changing journalism.

Filming Loimata a family affair

For senior communications studies lecturer Jim Marbrook, helping tell the story of Lilo Ema Siope and her family was a family affair.