Andrew Jaspan

Andrew Jaspan, (born 20 April 1952)[1] is a British-Australian journalist, the co-founder of The Conversation, an independent not-for-profit website of analysis and news from the university and research sector [2] and its Editor-in-Chief from The Conversation's launch in March 2011 until March 2017. The Conversation was established in response to what Jaspan describes as “increasing market failure in delivering trusted content.”[3] In May 2013, The Conversation[4] expanded with a launch into the UK,[5] into the US[9] in 2014, into Africa[10] and France[11] in 2015, into Canada,[6] Indonesia,[7] New Zealand[8] and Spain in 2017. Jaspan resigned from The Conversation in March 2017.[9]

In April 2017, Jaspan began work on developing The Global Academy, based at RMIT University with the support of Melbourne, Deakin, Western Sydney and RMIT universities.

Career

Jaspan edited The Observer in London, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, and Sunday Herald in the UK. In February 1989 he was announced as the editor of the Scotland on Sunday, having previously worked as editor at the Sunday Times editing the Scottish pull-out section.[10] Under his editorship, the Sunday Herald won numerous internationally recognised SND awards. He also worked at The Times and is also a former Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of The Big Issue.

Jaspan joined The Age as Editor-in-Chief in October 2004.[11] Between 2004 and 2008, Jaspan was the Editor-in-Chief of Melbourne’s The Age and The Sunday Age. Throughout his appointment as Editor in Chief at The Age, circulation, readership and online figures increased. In August 2008, Jaspan left his position as part of a major restructuring of Fairfax that included 550 job losses across its Australian operations.[12] Jaspan was replaced as Editor in Chief by Paul Ramadge in September 2008.[13]

In 2008, Jaspan started working with the higher education sector on The Conversation project.[14] The website is based upon the idea of sharing the expertise of academia directly with the public and thus turning the university sector into a giant newsroom. Content is written by academics working in collaboration with professional editors using a custom built collaborative publishing platform.[15] The Conversation launched in early 2011.[16] The project launched with the ambition to transform the research and analysis of leading universities and research bodies into a journalistic product that was freely accessible to the public.[17] Through The Conversation, Jaspan Andrew pioneered new digital information channels for academic knowledge under a Creative Commons licence; new collaborative frameworks for academic institutions globally and created new non-advertising funding models for news delivery.

In May 2013, The Conversation[4] expanded with a launch into the UK,[5] into the US[9] in 2014, into Africa[10] and France[11] in 2015, into Canada,[6] Indonesia,[7] New Zealand[8] and Spain in 2017. Journalist Mark Day[18] described The Conversation in The Australian[19] newspaper as a "big idea to harness the knowledge-makers and curate their academic rigour with journalistic flair to produce a daily stream of credible reporting and commentary free to all. It illustrates the flip side of the proposition that the internet is a force of destruction unleashed on the world of journalism by demonstrating that it is also the enabling tool that brings together people and knowledge."

Since April 2017, Jaspan has been establishing new media platform The Global Academy, a partnership between universities of Deakin, Melbourne, RMIT and Western Sydney.

Jaspan is the Asia-Pacific Director of Innovation Media International, on the Board of the RMIT Global Cities Research Institute, a speaker and participant in the Australian Davos conference, and was an observer in the 2020 Ideas Summit.

He is Professorial Fellow[20] in School of Media and Communication, RMIT, Melbourne; Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and Infrastructure, University of Melbourne.

References

  1. ↑ "Weekend birthdays", The Guardian, p. 59, 19 April 2014 |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. ↑ Jaspan, Andrew (18 April 2012). "A year of Conversation". Mumbrella. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  3. ↑ Jaspan, Andrew (2012-12-01). "A New Way To Journalism". tedxperth.org. Archived from the original on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  4. 1 2 "The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers". The Conversation. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  5. 1 2 "Britain gets Down Under academic commentary site - University World News". www.universityworldnews.com. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  6. 1 2 Peters, Diane (2017-07-10). "The Conversation launches in Canada". University Affairs. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  7. 1 2 Post, The Jakarta. "The Conversation launches Indonesian edition". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  8. 1 2 "The Conversation launches in New Zealand - Mumbrella". Mumbrella. 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  9. ↑ Ketchell, Misha. "Andrew Jaspan resigns as Editor and Executive Director of The Conversation". The Conversation. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  10. ↑ Bell, Ian (16 February 1989). "Scotsman first assistant editor sacked". The Glasgow Herald. p. 3. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  11. ↑ "New editor at The Age - National - www.theage.com.au". fddp.theage.com.au. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  12. ↑ Zappone, Chris (2008-08-26). "Fairfax Media to cut 550 jobs". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  13. ↑ "Paul Ramadge appointed Age editor-in-chief". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2008-09-13. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  14. ↑ Quinn, Karl (25 March 2011). "Fairfax Media". The Age, Victoria. The Age. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  15. ↑ Baker, Simon (6 October 2011). "In the virtual newsroom scholars tell the story". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  16. ↑ Trounson, Andrew (30 March 2011). "Getting the news out". Higher Education. The Australian. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  17. ↑ Carney, Shaun (26 March 2011). "Look who's contributing to the Conversation". The Age, National. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  18. ↑ "Mark Day | Author at The Australian". www.theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  19. ↑ Day, Mark (2017-12-23). "Sun never sets on Andrew Jaspan's global academic conversation". Wikipedia.
  20. ↑ "Mr Andrew Jaspan - RMIT University". www.rmit.edu.au. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
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Preceded by
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