What experience and industry credibility do the staff have?
A. Jschool director John Henningham is described by Journalism Education Association life member and former president Roger Patching as Australia’s best-known journalism educator. (This was in the recently published national text, Breen’s Journalism: Theory and Practice.) After a career in metropolitan and national journalism, John Henningham became the first person in Australia to receive a PhD in Journalism, and the first Australian to be appointed to the position of Professor of Journalism. The university department and course he developed and headed had been regarded, during his time there, as the nation’s best. John Henningham can lay claim to being personally acquainted with more newspaper editors and journalists than any other journalism teacher in Australia. He is frequently consulted for comment on media issues, and is a consultant to national and international publications on journalism. Hundreds of his former students are working in journalism throughout Australia and overse
