Margaret Van Heekeren
Associate Lecturer
(Journalism)
MA (Modern History), BA (Communication)
Margaret Van Heekeren
Bio
Margaret Van Heekeren has been working with Charles Sturt University since 1997. Prior to that she was the News Editor (Western) for WIN Television and has worked in magazines, newpapers and radio. Margaret is a journalism graduate from the former Mitchell College and is committed to maintaining the School's reputation in providing high calibre graduates to industry. She is married with two children and lives in Bathurst .
Teaching
- Journalism Research – undergraduate and postgraduate
- Advanced Newspaper and Magazine production - undergraduate
Research
Margaret holds a Masters of Art in Modern History through Macquarie University, specialising in media history. She is currently undertaking her PhD, also through Macquarie University and has research interests in media history and media evolution. Margaret is on the management committee for the first Australian university centre dedicated to media history, the Centre for Media History. She was a member of an Australian Press council-led steering committee which published the inaugural State of the Australian Print News Media report in 2006 and a 2007.
Recent publications and Conference papers
Van Heekeren, M., "Online News" in State of the Print News Media in Australia Report 2007, Australian Press Council, Sydney, 2007, http://www.presscouncil.org.au/snpma/snpma2007/ch04_snpma2007.html
Van Heekeren, M., Simpson, L., “News Content Analysis” in State of the Print News Media in Australia Report 2006, Australian Press Council, Sydney, 2006, pp.27-32; 92-95, also available http://www.presscouncil.org.au/snpma/snpma_index.html
Van Heekeren, M., North, S., “New Media - Online” in State of the Print News Media in Australia Report 2006, Australian Press Council, Sydney, 2006, pp.41-44, also available http://www.presscouncil.org.au/snpma/snpma_index.html
“Crossing the great divide: community response to the first year of the Bathurst newspaper, the Bathurst Advocate ”, refereed paper for the Journalism Education Association 2006 Conference , December 4-6, Auckland, New Zealand, http://artsweb.aut.ac.nz/journalism_conference/
“The Bulletin and the New Journalism from 1880 to 1918”, Australian Studies in Journalism, no.16, 2006, pp.4-20.
“Navigating the News Site. The impact of page design on story preference”, refereed paper for the Journalism Education Australia 2005 Conference, November 29 – December 2, Gold Coast , Australia , http://live-wirez.gu.edu.au/jea.
“What the web news reader wants: An analysis of smh.com.au readership story preference”, refereed paper for the Australia New Zealand Communication Association 2005 Conference, delivered July 4, 2005, Christchurch, New Zealand, http://www.mang.canterbury.ac.nz/ANZCA/CommAndTech.shtml.
“’Who’s Gough Whitlam?’ What journalism graduates don't know about the past and what news editors want them to know”, Australian Journalism Review, v.27, no.1, July 2005, pp. 209-218.
“The Elements of Newswriting”, “Journalism: Who What Where When Why and How” (Book Review), Australian Studies in Journalism, no. 14, 2005, pp.162-165.
