Matthew Ricketson and Andrew Dodd

Matthew Ricketson is an academic and journalist. Presently the professor of communication at Deakin University, I was previously inaugural journalism professor at the University of Canberra between 2009 and 2017. I have also run the journalism program at RMIT for 11 years. I have worked on staff at The Australian and Time Australia magazine: my last job in the news media industry was Media and Communications Editor at The Age. I have written three books and edited two. Andrew has been a journalist for over twenty-five years, working in radio, TV, print and on-line. He has worked with ABC radio and television, Radio Netherlands and numerous other publications. He was a media and business writer with The Australian and a broadcaster with ABC Radio National, where he presented many of the network's programs and founded the Media Report. He was also a media writer for crikey.com.au.