Professor Andrew Dodd

Andrew Dodd is a professor of journalism and the outgoing director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism. Before joining the University of Melbourne in 2017, he was head of the journalism program at Swinburne University. Andrew was a broadcaster at ABC Radio National, where he presented several programs and founded the long running Media Report program. He was also a reporter at ABC TV's 7.30 Report and a media and business reporter at The Australian.

Professor Dodd also worked for Crikey and Radio Netherlands and continues to write for several publications. He has been a Chief investigator on two ARC projects, both about change in the news media industry. He is the author, co-author or co-editor of several books, including JJ Clark: Architect of the Australian Renaissance and the upcoming Getting Murdoched: How Murdoch’s media wields power and punishment (with Matthew Ricketson). Professor Dodd completed his PhD in history at the University of Melbourne.

Professor Dodd believes that by activating the humanities and social sciences in imaginative and timely ways we’re not only contributing to a better world, we’re also demonstrating the worth of these disciplines at a time when the humanities are needed in public life and social policy more than ever.