Katrina Clifford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katrina Clifford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katrina |
| FAMILY NAME | Clifford |
| SIGNATURE | CLIFFORD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3408-7488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
True crime podcasts, journalistic authority, and the transforming archive
True crime journalism has long relied on crime’s archive – police records, court proceedings, media reports, and witness testimony – to construct narratives of crime and justice. While existing scholarship has examined the narrative and ethical dimensions of true crime media, less attention has been paid to how emerging formats engage with and reshape crime’s archive through journalistic practice. Focussing on newsroom-produced true crime podcast…
Ice towns
The Australian news media regularly presents crystal methamphetamine use as a non-metropolitan ‘epidemic’ sweeping through country towns with devastating consequences for affected communities. Considerations of place and the notion of rurality are therefore crucial to understanding how these media representations are constructed and their power to influence national understandings of rural people, places and policy debates. In order to explore th…
The “Rosie Batty Effect” and the Framing of Family Violence in Australian News Media
When 11-year-old Australian boy Luke Batty was murdered by his father, his mother Rosie Batty used her authority as a high-profile victim to orchestrate a sustained and nationwide campaign to address family violence. Her efforts informed public and political debate as well as policy change at state and federal levels in Australia. This study examines news coverage of the Luke Batty case over a 20-month period following Luke’s murder on 12 Februar…
For the lifestyle and a love of creativity
A number of studies have examined why students choose to study journalism at university, but overall, this area is still relatively underexplored. Yet, understanding why students choose journalism, and what career expectations they hold, is important not only for educators but also for wider society and public debates about the future of journalism and the value of tertiary journalism education. This article examines the motivations of 1884 Austr…
Amanda Knox
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKatrina CliffordKatrina Clifford is a lecturer in the Journalism, Media and Communications Program at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Prior to joining academia, she worked as a journalist and magazine editor for over 10 years, and later as a freelance communications consultant and corporate writer. She is currently writing a book on media and crime with Rob White, Professor of Criminology at the U…
The thin blue line of mental health in Australia
While the shift from psychiatric custodial treatment and accommodation of mentally ill individuals to community living and community care may have been devised with good intentions, poorly implemented reforms have promulgated numerous deficiencies in Australia’s mental health system. Among these has been the troubling proportion of mentally ill individuals who have ‘fallen through the cracks’ into crisis as a consequence of a lack of access to se…
The Killer Point’
In November 2008, Gordon Wood was found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend, model Caroline Byrne, over a decade after her body was found at the base of an ocean cliff in Eastern Sydney, New South Wales, known as The Gap -- a place that, even while bearing the reputation of a ‘notorious suicide spot’, has been widely promoted as a popular tourist attraction. This article explores the mainstream media’s reporting and regulation of meaning in re…
Bibliography of Frederica de Laguna
and other publications were identified by searching various library collections and bibliographies, and by using online bibliographic sources such as JSTOR. Tracking down accurate information about publishers, dates, and holdings required creative use of the internet and many hours of patient research by Rachel Mason, Susan Kaplan, Kristi Clifford, and Stacy Ericson. Publications that de Laguna coauthored and which show her as the first author ar…
For the lifestyle and a love of creativity
A number of studies have examined why students choose to study journalism at university, but overall, this area is still relatively underexplored. Yet, understanding why students choose journalism, and what career expectations they hold, is important not only for educators but also for wider society and public debates about the future of journalism and the value of tertiary journalism education. This article examines the motivations of 1884 Austr…
The “Rosie Batty Effect” and the Framing of Family Violence in Australian News Media
When 11-year-old Australian boy Luke Batty was murdered by his father, his mother Rosie Batty used her authority as a high-profile victim to orchestrate a sustained and nationwide campaign to address family violence. Her efforts informed public and political debate as well as policy change at state and federal levels in Australia. This study examines news coverage of the Luke Batty case over a 20-month period following Luke’s murder on 12 Februar…
Ice towns
The Australian news media regularly presents crystal methamphetamine use as a non-metropolitan ‘epidemic’ sweeping through country towns with devastating consequences for affected communities. Considerations of place and the notion of rurality are therefore crucial to understanding how these media representations are constructed and their power to influence national understandings of rural people, places and policy debates. In order to explore th…
Bibliography of Frederica de Laguna
and other publications were identified by searching various library collections and bibliographies, and by using online bibliographic sources such as JSTOR. Tracking down accurate information about publishers, dates, and holdings required creative use of the internet and many hours of patient research by Rachel Mason, Susan Kaplan, Kristi Clifford, and Stacy Ericson. Publications that de Laguna coauthored and which show her as the first author ar…
The Killer Point’
In November 2008, Gordon Wood was found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend, model Caroline Byrne, over a decade after her body was found at the base of an ocean cliff in Eastern Sydney, New South Wales, known as The Gap -- a place that, even while bearing the reputation of a ‘notorious suicide spot’, has been widely promoted as a popular tourist attraction. This article explores the mainstream media’s reporting and regulation of meaning in re…
The thin blue line of mental health in Australia
While the shift from psychiatric custodial treatment and accommodation of mentally ill individuals to community living and community care may have been devised with good intentions, poorly implemented reforms have promulgated numerous deficiencies in Australia’s mental health system. Among these has been the troubling proportion of mentally ill individuals who have ‘fallen through the cracks’ into crisis as a consequence of a lack of access to se…
Amanda Knox
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKatrina CliffordKatrina Clifford is a lecturer in the Journalism, Media and Communications Program at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Prior to joining academia, she worked as a journalist and magazine editor for over 10 years, and later as a freelance communications consultant and corporate writer. She is currently writing a book on media and crime with Rob White, Professor of Criminology at the U…
For the lifestyle and a love of creativity
A number of studies have examined why students choose to study journalism at university, but overall, this area is still relatively underexplored. Yet, understanding why students choose journalism, and what career expectations they hold, is important not only for educators but also for wider society and public debates about the future of journalism and the value of tertiary journalism education. This article examines the motivations of 1884 Austr…
The “Rosie Batty Effect” and the Framing of Family Violence in Australian News Media
When 11-year-old Australian boy Luke Batty was murdered by his father, his mother Rosie Batty used her authority as a high-profile victim to orchestrate a sustained and nationwide campaign to address family violence. Her efforts informed public and political debate as well as policy change at state and federal levels in Australia. This study examines news coverage of the Luke Batty case over a 20-month period following Luke’s murder on 12 Februar…
Ice towns
The Australian news media regularly presents crystal methamphetamine use as a non-metropolitan ‘epidemic’ sweeping through country towns with devastating consequences for affected communities. Considerations of place and the notion of rurality are therefore crucial to understanding how these media representations are constructed and their power to influence national understandings of rural people, places and policy debates. In order to explore th…
True crime podcasts, journalistic authority, and the transforming archive
True crime journalism has long relied on crime’s archive – police records, court proceedings, media reports, and witness testimony – to construct narratives of crime and justice. While existing scholarship has examined the narrative and ethical dimensions of true crime media, less attention has been paid to how emerging formats engage with and reshape crime’s archive through journalistic practice. Focussing on newsroom-produced true crime podcast…
Sociology (6 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (3 works) · Journalism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Criminology (2 works)