Professor Michael Bromley
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Professor of Journalism
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Qualifications:
Professor Bromley graduated from the Polytechnic of North London with a BA (Hons) in Modern History. He took an MA in History from Yale University in the USA, and was awarded his PhD in Sociology (Media Studies) by City University London.
Background:
Professor Michael Bromley is the Head of the School of Journalism and Communication and Professor of Journalism. He is a former journalist and worked for a number of daily newspapers in the UK, including the Daily Mail, for more than 20 years. He has taught Journalism and Media Studies at universities in the UK, the USA, where he was Howard R. Marsh Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Michigan, and Australia. He has published widely on journalism and the media, especially the press. He joined the School of Journalism and Communication in October 2004 as Deputy Head of School and was appointed Head in August 2007.
He is a member of the editorial boards of Australian Journalism Review; Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism; Brazilian Journalism Research and Media International Australia, and a member of the Comité scientifique, Litteatures, Histoire des Idées, Images, Societés du Monde Anglophone (LISA). He was a member of the media consultative group to the Council of Europe initiative on the Vienna Declaration, and consultant to the Council of Europe for the production of learning materials for journalists and journalism educators and trainers on diversity reporting, and ethical issues in journalism in central and eastern Europe where he led seminars in 9 countries. He has also acted as a consultant to the newspaper group APN. In 2006 he was member of the Queensland Minister of Health’s advisory panel on Public Reporting.
Professor Bromley is a long-time sports fan with specific attachments to AFL (particularly the Brisbane Lions), soccer (and his home town team Burnley in the English Premier League), NRL (Brisbane Broncos) and baseball (Oakland As).
Research Interests:
His research and teaching interests are in journalism practices, investigative journalism, journalism education, citizen journalism and the socio-cultural uses of journalism. This includes an interest in the media, especially newspapers and their pasts and futures. His work has been published in Australia, France, Portugal, Brazil, Russia, the Netherlands, Japan, the UK, Germany, Romania, Slovenia and the USA.
Selected Publications:
2009: [with Shannon Molloy] ‘Stirred but not shaken: how the next generation is adapting to the online domain’, Australian Journalism Review 31(1), pp.77-90.
2009: [with Regan Neal] ‘Farewell old friend or bye-bye bully boy? The closure of a “media icon” and challenging the “free press” paradigm’, Media International Australia 132, pp.29-40
2008: ‘Investigative journalism and scholarship’ in H. de Burgh (ed.) Investigative Journalism: Context and Practice 2nd edn. (London: Routledge), pp.174-88.
2008: Guest editor, Citizen Journalism themed issue, Australian Journalism Review 30(2).
2008: ‘Fleet Street’, in W. Donsbach (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Communication (London, Blackwell).
2007: ‘The United Kingdom media landscape’ in G. Terzis (ed.) European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions (Bristol: Intellect), pp.43-54.
2006: [with Angela Romano] eds Journalism and Democracy in Asia (London: RoutledgeCurzon).
2006: 'One joumalism or many? Confronting the contradictions in the education and training of journalists in the United Kingdom' in K.W.Y. Leung, Kenny & P.S.N. Lee (eds) Global Trends in Communication Research and Education (Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press), pp.53-72.
2006: ‘How good is journalism research? ’, Australian Journalism Review 28(1), pp.211-18.
2005: ‘Subterfuge as public service: investigative journalism as idealized journalism’ in S. Allan (ed) Journalism: Critical Issues (Buckingham: Open University Press), pp.313-27.
