Chrisanthi Giotis

Dr Chrisanthi Giotis

Lecturer, Journalism

School of Communication, Media and Journalism

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

I am a journalism academic passionate about practice-led research.
My interdisciplinary approach seeks to understand what makes great journalism that will help communities, and thus democracies, thrive. Using postcolonial and decolonial approaches I develop new reporting methods connecting marginalised communities with working journalists, so as to build trust and diversity of perspectives on both sides. I also use social geography to consider how journalists can better report complex, ongoing conflicts. I am working on a project trying to find 'glocal' frames of reportage which connect local realities with global discourses. 
I am very keen to take on honours, masters and PhD students, especially if your project involves practice-based research.
My first book Borderland: Decolonizing the words of war will be published by Oxford University Press in 2022.
Previously I worked in print and radio as a reporter, presenter and deputy editor in Sydney, Dubbo and London. I then ran my own entrepreneurial journalism website focusing on inspirational stories of social enterprise, while travelling from Cairo to Cape Town by public transport.  

Huge thanks to @RoccoFazzari for my illustrated profile pic

Books, chapters and journal articles 

Giotis, C, Molitorisz, S & Wilding, D., 2023, 'How Australia's competition regulator is supporting news, but not quality', in Lawrence, Regina G & Napoli, Philip M (eds), News Quality in the Digital Age, Routledge, US, ch. 11, pp. 169-186.

Giotis, C., 2023, 'Missing what counts. can Google and Facebook be forced to support quality news?', Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 43-59.

Giotis, C., 2022, Borderland: Decolonizing the words of war, Oxford University Press, ‘Journalism and Political Communication Unbound’ Series

Giotis, C. & C. Hall, 2021, ‘Better foreign correspondence starts at home. Changing practice through diasporic knowledge’, Journalism Practice Link

Giotis, C., 2021, ‘Dismantling the Deadlock: Australian Muslim Women’s Fightback against the Rise of Right-Wing Media’, Social Sciences, vol 10, issue 2, Link

Fiske, L. & C. Giotis, 2021 ‘Refugees, Gender and Disability: Examining intersections through refugee journeys’ in Piper, N. & C. Mora (eds) Gender and Migration Handbook. Palgrave Macmillan

Giotis, C., 2019, ‘More Than a Victim. Thinking through foreign correspondents’ representations of women in conflict’ in Fiske, L. & R. Shackel (eds) Rethinking Transitional Gender Justice: Transformative approaches in post-conflict settings. Palgrave Macmillan

Year Citation
2025 Ghani, B., Giotis, C., Guerra, L. E. Q., Laurie, T., & Sands, K. (2025). EDITORIAL Between Art and Conflict: Prefiguration, Heterotopia, and the Archive. Axon, 15(3), 3-17.
DOI
2024 Giotis, C. (2024). THE JOURNALIST'S PREDICAMENT: DIFFICULT CHOICES IN A DECLINING PROFESSION. AUSTRALIAN JOURNALISM REVIEW, 46(1), 132-133.
DOI
2023 Giotis, C. (2023). Missing what counts. Can Google and Facebook be forced to support quality news?. Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, 20(1), 43-59.
2021 Giotis, C. (2021). Dismantling the deadlock: Australian Muslim women's fightback against the rise of right-wing media. Social Sciences, 10(2, article no. 71), 1-16.
DOI Scopus5 WoS3
2021 Giotis, C., & Hall, C. (2021). Better foreign correspondence starts at home: changing practice through diasporic knowledge. Journalism Practice, 17(3), 474-491.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2018 Giotis, C. (2018). Conflict zones and non-physical risks to journalism practice: notes from Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Sur le Journalisme, 7(1), 34-49.

  • Wyatt Trust Media Analysis, The Wyatt Benevolent Institution Inc., 01/05/2025 - 30/06/2025

Courses I teach

  • COMM 1059 Media Contexts (2025)
  • COMM 1064 News Reporting (2025)
  • COMM 3059 Journalism Research Capstone (2025)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2026 Principal Supervisor Exploring the cultural geography of class, place and the climate crisis through climate-fiction (cli-fi): an Australian working-class perspective. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Evan Dennis Jarrett
2025 Co-Supervisor `Framing Femicide: Investigative Podcasting, True Crime, and Social Media Storytelling in Australian Journalism Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Sarah Beatrix Davison
2024 Co-Supervisor Creative Folklore Journalism and the forgotten tales of South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jayden Bartlett
2023 Principal Supervisor Scrutinising river reportage through the prism of constructive journalism:aninternationalcomparison   Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Nure Maliha
2022 Co-Supervisor Radically re-imagining the Anthropocene: The role of memoir in communicating and resisting the climate crisis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Lauren Michelle Fuge

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