Background
Lee Duffield was the first news editor on the ABC’s Triple J youth service. Also in his early career he spent 18 months outside Australia, on a fellowship at the East West Centre in Hawaii, and in France studying at the Alliance Francaise in Paris.
As a senior journalist Duffield became ABC European Correspondent based at Brussels, covering the collapse of communism in Europe, including opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Duffield worked in public affairs after 1992 as a senior ministerial media advisor in the Queensland Government and for a short time at the Australian High Commission in New Zealand.
He graduated from Queensland University (BA, Dip. Ed., Dip. Jour., B.Ed.St. 1969-1982), Sydney University (MA with Merit, 1983), and James Cook University (PhD, 2003). A high school teacher for one year, he taught communication and journalism part-time at the NSW Institute of Technology and Queensland University, 1974 – 1984. Duffield became a journalism lecturer at JCU in 1997, moving to QUT two years later.
His 2002 doctoral thesis is on news media in historical crises, drawing on experiences documenting the fall of the Eastern Bloc.
Recent publications are listed in QUT eprints, including books: Duffield L and J Cokley (eds.) (2006), I Journalist; Duffield L (2009), Berlin Wall in the News.
Duffield continues in journalism, editing student-staffed radio and online news outlets, and did a year of professional refreshment from 2006 to 2007, reporting again from Europe for ABC and other outlets.
Academic interests
- new media
- foreign news
- journalism education
- internationalisation of the curriculum taken in a field program where students report news and engage in intercultural learning overseas.
This information has been contributed by Dr Lee Duffield.
