
Overview
Background
Dr Caroline Graham is an award-winning investigative journalist who specialises in narrative non-fiction storytelling across both traditional and new media formats, including podcasting, data-driven reporting and longform creative non-fiction. Caroline is the co-author of the Australian bestseller Larrimah (Allen & Unwin, 2021), which was shortlisted for an Indie Book Award, Ned Kelly Award and two Davitt Awards. Caroline is also the co-author and co-producer of the investigative true crime podcast series Lost in Larrimah (The Australian, 2018), which won a Walkley Award, an NT Media Award and was a finalist in the Quills Awards and the Australian Podcasting Awards. In addition to writing feature stories and creative non-fiction for a range of publications (including The Australian, The Weekend Australian Magazine and The Guardian), Caroline has co-authored Writing Feature Stories: How to research and write articles, from listicles to longform (Routledge, 2017). She has received a national Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for her approach to teaching data-driven journalism and has co-ordinated student-authored data-driven investigations for The Guardian, Crikey and New Corp Australia. In 2023, she co-wrote/co-produced the ABC Landline documentary Outback Musical, as well as an accompanying multimedia feature that won a Clarion Award. She has also investigated (for The Australian, 2023) access to education in remote parts of the Northern Territory, supported by a Meta/Walkley Foundation grant for public interest journalism. She also writes fiction, has worked as a consulting producer/script editor on podcast series and has written for or collaborated on a number of hybrid new media or cross-platform projects.
Caroline’s academic research interests centre around the application of journalistic ethics and traditions to emerging media formats, including data-driven reporting methodologies, the ethics of true crime podcasting, the evolution of narrative journalism formats, notions of subjectivity in a new-media landscape, regional, rural and remote reporting and the emerging solutions journalism movement. Through her work on the Larrimah projects, she also has an enduring interest in Northern Territory war and rail history, the myth of the outback, small towns, the Australian identity and missing persons cases. She is open to public-interest collaborations with industry or the not-for-profit sector, as well as cross-disciplinary research and practice opportunities.
Availability
- Dr Caroline Graham is:
- Not available for supervision
- Media expert
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Journalism, Bond University
- Bachelor of Arts (International Relations and Asian Politics), Bond University
- Masters (Research) of Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
- Doctor of Philosophy of Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
Research interests
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Narrative non-fiction
Narrative non-fiction, investigative reporting, longform journalism, podcasting, data-driven reporting.
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New ethical models for journalism
Rethinking journalistic ethics in the context of new media formats and genres—from the production of true crime podcasts to data-driven reporting—and the role of the audience in an ethics of consumption.
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Data-driven reporting
The context for data-driven journalism, data-driven reporting methodologies, political data-driven reporting, teaching data methodologies.
Works
Search Professor Caroline Graham’s works on UQ eSpace
2024
Other Outputs
New NT government supports Labor's school funding deal
Stevenson, Kylie and Graham, Caroline (2024, 10 25). New NT government supports Labor's school funding deal The Australian
2024
Journal Article
‘All by myself’: professional, emotional and ethical isolation for remote Australian journalists
Graham, Caroline, Murray, Richard and Pinkerton, Jennifer (2024). ‘All by myself’: professional, emotional and ethical isolation for remote Australian journalists. Ethical Space, 21 (4), 5-21. doi: 10.21428/0af3f4c0.025e9e7b
2024
Other Outputs
Larrimah: who killed Paddy Moriarty?
Graham, Caroline and Stevenson, Kylie (2024). Larrimah: who killed Paddy Moriarty?. 2nd ed. Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
2024
Other Outputs
Weir report: How the NT system failed child-sex victims
Stevenson, Kylie and Graham, Caroline (2024, 08 24). Weir report: How the NT system failed child-sex victims The Australian 6-6.
2024
Other Outputs
Mixed messages on NT's attendance-based funding model
Graham, Caroline and Stevenson, Kylie (2024, 08 02). Mixed messages on NT's attendance-based funding model The Australian 5-5.
2024
Other Outputs
NT takes the cash despite dire education outcomes
Graham, Caroline and Stevenson, Kylie (2024, 08 01). NT takes the cash despite dire education outcomes The Australian 1-2.
2024
Book Chapter
Through the mirror
Graham, Caroline and Stevenson, Kylie (2024). Through the mirror. True crime and women. (pp. 123-138) edited by Lili Pâquet and Rosemary Williamson. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003405054-8
2024
Journal Article
Views from the edges: Teaching literary journalism at the margins of journalism and creative writing
Graham, Caroline, Doig, Tom and Shafeeq, Lujain (2024). Views from the edges: Teaching literary journalism at the margins of journalism and creative writing. Literary Journalism Studies, 15 (1), 158-181.
2024
Other Outputs
No DPP action on missing Moriarty
Stevenson, Kylie and Graham, Caroline (2024, 06 06). No DPP action on missing Moriarty The Australian 3-3.
2024
Other Outputs
Plan an admission of past failures
Graham, Caroline and Stevenson, Kylie (2024, 03 13). Plan an admission of past failures The Australian 5-5.
2023
Journal Article
Entertainment, Journalism, and Advocacy: Competing Motivations in the True Crime Podcast Ecosystem, Lindsey A. Sherrill (2023)
Graham, Caroline (2023). Entertainment, Journalism, and Advocacy: Competing Motivations in the True Crime Podcast Ecosystem, Lindsey A. Sherrill (2023). Australian Journalism Review, 45 (2), 282-283. doi: 10.1386/ajr_00138_5
2023
Other Outputs
Students ‘denied right’ to education’
Graham, Caroline and Stevenson, Kylie (2023). Students ‘denied right’ to education’. Sydney, Australia: News Corp Australia.
2023
Other Outputs
‘Traditional way, we got that here. Western way, we want that, too’
Stevenson, Kylie, Graham, Caroline and Colling, Tilda (2023). ‘Traditional way, we got that here. Western way, we want that, too’. Sydney, Australia: News Corp Australia.
2023
Other Outputs
Territory Minister denies schools system is ‘broken’
Graham, Caroline and Stevenson, Kylie (2023). Territory Minister denies schools system is ‘broken’. Sydney, Australia: News Corp Australia.
2023
Other Outputs
Schools scandal: nothing magic about this Carpetland
Graham, Caroline and Stevenson, Kylie (2023). Schools scandal: nothing magic about this Carpetland. Sydney, Australia: News Corp Australia.
2023
Other Outputs
Remote control
Graham, Caroline and Stevenson, Kylie (2023). Remote control. Sydney, Australia: News Corp Australia.
2023
Other Outputs
School’s out: fears for those left behind
Graham, Caroline and Stevenson, Kylie (2023). School’s out: fears for those left behind. Sydney, Australia: News Corp Australia.
2023
Other Outputs
Security, prospects take toll at school
Colling, Tilda, Stevenson, Kylie and Graham, Caroline (2023). Security, prospects take toll at school. Sydney, Australia: News Corp Australia.
2023
Other Outputs
Lessons of their own land
Colling, Tilda, Graham, Caroline and Stevenson, Kylie (2023). Lessons of their own land. Sydney, Australia: News Corp Australia.
2023
Other Outputs
Kids fall off the money-go-round
Graham, Caroline and Stevenson, Kylie (2023). Kids fall off the money-go-round. Sydney, Australia: News Corp Australia.
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Caroline Graham is:
- Not available for supervision
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Reconciling the conflict between journalists' perceived audiences and actual audiences to produce a collaborative model for contemporary digital journalism.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Richard Murray
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Doctor Philosophy
Are new legislations to protect national security slowly killing our societal watchdog? Safeguarding freedom of speech in relation to new national security laws.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Richard Murray
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Doctor Philosophy
Are new legislations to protect national security slowly killing our societal watchdog? Safeguarding freedom of speech in relation to new national security laws.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Richard Murray
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Doctor Philosophy
Frontlines of Science and the power of place in science podcasts
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Natalie Collie, Dr Richard Murray
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Doctor Philosophy
Frontlines of Science and the power of place in science podcasts
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Natalie Collie, Dr Richard Murray
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Doctor Philosophy
Reversing the Algorithm Effect: Investigating the role of hybrid digital journalism in bridging the gap between mainstream media and culturally diverse communities
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Richard Murray
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Doctor Philosophy
Can a National Narrative Hinder Healing? Building a Sustainable Storytelling Model for The Australian Resilience Project
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lujain Shafeeq, Dr Richard Murray
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Doctor Philosophy
Reconciling the conflict between journalists' perceived audiences and actual audiences to produce a collaborative model for contemporary digital journalism.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Richard Murray
Media
Enquiries
Contact Dr Caroline Graham directly for media enquiries about:
- data journalism
- ethics
- journalism
- media
- new media
- outback australia
- podcasting
- true crime
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