Rate My Professor Chrisanthi Giotis

Dr. Chrisanthi Giotis serves as Lecturer in Journalism in the School of Communication, Media and Journalism, College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities at Adelaide University. She is a journalism academic passionate about practice-led research, employing an interdisciplinary approach to understand what makes great journalism that helps communities and democracies thrive. Using postcolonial and decolonial approaches, she develops new reporting methods connecting marginalised communities with working journalists to build trust and diversity of perspectives. She also uses social geography to consider how journalists can better report complex, ongoing conflicts and works on 'glocal' frames of reportage connecting local realities with global discourses. Previously, she worked in print and radio as a reporter, presenter, and deputy editor in Sydney, Dubbo, and London. She ran her own entrepreneurial journalism website focusing on inspirational stories of social enterprise while travelling from Cairo to Cape Town by public transport.

Giotis has published extensively, including the book Borderland: Decolonizing the words of war (Oxford University Press, 2022). Key articles and chapters include 'How Australia's competition regulator is supporting news, but not quality' in News Quality in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2023), 'Missing what counts. Can Google and Facebook be forced to support quality news?' (Ethical Space, 2023), 'Dismantling the Deadlock: Australian Muslim Women’s Fightback against the Rise of Right-Wing Media' (Social Sciences, 2021), 'Better foreign correspondence starts at home: Changing practice through diasporic knowledge' (Journalism Practice, 2021), and 'More Than a Victim: Thinking through foreign correspondents’ representations of women in conflict' in Rethinking Transitional Gender Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). She teaches courses such as Media Contexts (COMM 1059), News Reporting (COMM 1064), and Journalism Research Capstone (COMM 3059). Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students, especially for practice-based projects, she currently supervises several doctoral candidates on topics including climate-fiction, investigative podcasting, constructive journalism, and creative folklore journalism.