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Professor Kristy Hess is a Professor of Communication at Deakin University, Australia. Her research focuses on media practices, the sustainability of local news, and the intersection of journalism, placemaking, and social order in digital environments. She currently leads an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project examining the future of local newspapers in collaboration with Country Press Australia and contributes to an ARC Discovery project on media and the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. She also serves as an associate editor of Digital Journalism.
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Her work bridges theoretical and applied research, with emphasis on media policy and digital transformations in journalism. Recent projects address challenges facing local news ecosystems and institutional accountability in media reporting.
No recent articles listed in the text, though she co-authored Local Journalism in a Digital World and Geographies of Journalism, and edited international collections on journalism (Routledge).
Consults widely with industry, startups, and government on media policy and local news sustainability.
