Photo of Mrs Margaret Van Heekeren Mrs Margaret Van Heekeren

BA (Communication), MA (Modern History)

Profile

Margaret Van Heekeren has worked in magazine, newspaper, radio and television journalism. Prior to joining Charles Sturt University in 1997 she was the News Editor (Western) for WIN Television’s Orange, Dubbo and Wagga Wagga newsrooms. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Communication) from Mitchell College of Advanced Education (1985) and a Master of Arts (Modern History) from Macquarie University (2008). She is currently completing her PhD through Macquarie University.

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Teaching

Margaret teaches final year print journalism students and Masters degree coursework students in advanced journalism and journalism research. She is available for Honours and Masters research supervision in the areas of journalism practice and journalism history.

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Research

Margaret researches in the area of 20th and 19th century Australian journalism history. She is a member of the management committee of the Centre for Media History. Margaret convened the biannual Australian Media Traditions conference at CSU Bathurst in 2007.

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Publications

Journal Articles
  • “’The 'Organic Filament'. New Idealist Thought and the Media”. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 17 (1), 2011, pp. 37-61
  • “’Office Boys' or Intellectuals?: Sydney Morning Herald Editors from 1903-1937". Australian Journalism Review, 32(2),  2010, p.75-88
  • “News in ‘new media’: An historical comparison between the arrival of television and online news in Australia”, Media International Australia, 134 (February), 2010 pp.20-30
  • “The Press and the 1847 Libel Act: the first criminal libel trials in New South Wales”, Legal History (forthcoming 2010)
  • “Pioneer or pretender?: the contradictory life of Australasian printer and publisher Benjamin Isaacs”, Australian Journalism Review, 30(1), 2008, pp.85-98
  • “The Bulletin and the New Journalism from 1880 to 1918”, Australian Studies in Journalism, no.16, 2006, pp.4-20
  • “‘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
Refereed Conference Papers
  • “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
  • “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. Download the paper [RTF]
  • “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. View the paper [PDF]

Other

  • Van Heekeren, M., “Online News” in State of the Print News Media in Australia Report 2007, Australian Press Council, Sydney, 2007. Read it online
  • 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. View online
  • 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. View online

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