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Dr Andrea Baker is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism within the School of Media, Film and Journalism, Faculty of Arts, at Monash University. She currently serves as Undergraduate Coordinator and has previously acted as Head of Journalism, along with coordinating Honours, HDR, and Research programs. With a journalism career spanning over 28 years, including award-winning work as Executive Producer of ABC Radio National’s Women on the Line and cultural reporting for The Conversation, Baker holds a PhD in Digital Communications (Monash University, 2012), Graduate Diploma in Management (Health Management, La Trobe University, 1996), Bachelor of Arts in Communications (Media and Politics, Swinburne University of Technology, 1994), and a 2025 module in Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University. She has taught journalism at Monash, Swinburne, and La Trobe Universities.

Her research interests include journalism studies on artificial intelligence, journalist safety, alternative media across Global North and South, big data and digital media such as #MeToo and net-radio, feminist journalism on violence against women, and arts journalism encompassing film cultures, music media, and music cities. Key publications comprise Violence Against Women in the Global South: Reporting in the #MeToo Era (Palgrave, 2023, co-edited), Reporting on Sexual Violence in the #MeToo Era (Routledge, 2023, co-edited), The Great Music City: Exploring Music, Space and Identity (Palgrave, 2019), Virtual Radio Gaga (Hampton Press, 2012), and The Case of Peter Greste & Notions of Press Freedom (Australian Journalism Monographs, 2014). Awards include the Best Education Book Award from the International Book Festival (U.S.) for The Great Music City (2019) and the International Association of Media and Communications Research Publishing Award for Virtual Radio Gaga (2012). Baker is Editor-in-Chief of Journalism Practice, serves on editorial boards and international committees including AEJMC’s Commission for the Status of Women and ICA’s Public Engagement Committee, and has held research fellowships at City University of New York, Freie Universität Berlin, and University of Texas at Austin. Her scholarship has been cited by UNESCO, UN Women, and UNICEF, influencing media policy and practice.