Margaret Simons
Margaret Simons | |
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Born | 1960 (age 57–58) |
Occupation | Journalist, academic |
Margaret Simons (b 1960) is an Australian academic, journalist and author. Her essay Fallen Angels won the Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism[1]. She has written thirteen books, including co-authoring the memoirs of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
Until 2017 she was director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. She is currently an Associate Professor of journalism at Monash University[2].
Career
Simons was a finalist for a Walkley Award for journalism in 2007 for the story Buried in the Labyrinth, about the release of a pedophile into the community, published in Griffith Review and her book The Content Makers – Understanding the Future of the Australian Media was longlisted for the 2008 non-fiction book Walkley Award.
She was previously the media reporter for Crikey[3] and is a regular media commentator in The Guardian[4]. For many years, she wrote the "Earthmother" gardening column for The Australian.
In 2011 Simons she was appointed as director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne[5].
In 2015 she won the Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism for her essay Fallen Angels, published in The Monthly[1]. The essay is an investigation of sex tourism in the Philippines and the children that have been abandoned there by their Australian fathers. The award was shared with photographer Dave Tacon.
In 2017 she moved to the School of Film, Media and Journalism at Monash University.
Simons has a doctorate from the University of Technology, Sydney[6] and was co-founder, with Melissa Sweet, of the community-funded news site YouComm News.[7] She lives in Melbourne.
Articles
- Duty of Care, August 2010, The Monthly
- Fallen Angels, July 2015, The Monthly
- The Long Letter to a Short Love, or..., Summer 2015, Meanjin
- Right Wing Refugee, January 2016, SBS
- Lost Boy Found, June 2016, SBS
- Is Michelle Guthrie Tuned in to the ABC?, September 2016, The Monthly
Bibliography
- The Ruthless Garden (1993)
- The Truth Teller (1996)
- Wheelbarrows, Chooks & Children: a gardener's life (1999)
- Fit to Print: inside the Canberra Press Gallery (1999)
- The Meeting of the Waters: the Hindmarsh Island affair (2003)
- Latham's World: the new politics of the outsiders (2004)
- The Rich and Fertile Story of Compost: resurrection in a bucket (2004)
- The Content Makers: understanding the media in Australia (2007)
- Faith, Money & Power: what the religious revival means for politics (2007)
- Malcolm Fraser: the political memoirs (with Malcolm Fraser) (2010)
- Journalism at the Crossroads: crisis and opportunity for the press (2012)
- Kerry Stokes: self made man (2013)
- Six Square Metres: reflections from a small garden (2015)
References
- 1 2 "Margaret Simons, David Tacon « The Walkley Foundation". www.walkleys.com. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
- ↑ "Award-winning journalist Margaret Simons joins Monash Journalism". Monash University. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
- ↑ "The Content Makers - Margaret Simons on Media". The Content Makers. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
- ↑ "Margaret Simons". the Guardian. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
- ↑ "Margaret Simons new Director for the Centre for Advanced Journalism". The Melbourne Newsroom. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2010-11-08.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-08.