Susan Forde

Susan Forde is a professor of journalism at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She has authored or co-authored three books and more than fifty journal articles and book chapters on media and journalism, with a focus on community-based media alternative media, alternative forms of journalism and social movement media. She is the founding editor, with Professor Chris Atton, of the Journal of Alternative and Community Media. She currently leads national and internationally funded projects about specialist community-run media for multicultural, Indigenous and local communities. She worked as a journalist in both mainstream and alternative/community media sectors before joining academia.

Contact: Griffith Centre for Social Cultural Research, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia.