Jenna Price
Australian journalist and academic
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Jenna Price is an Australian journalist and academic. As of 2021, she is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and a columnist at The Sydney Morning Herald .[1] She is one of the founders of the online feminist movement, Destroy The Joint.
Jenna Price | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1957-04-10 |
| Awards | Edna Ryan Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Technology Sydney |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Thesis | Destroying the joint: A case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women (2019) |
| Influences | Ariadne Vromen |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Technology, Sydney Australian National University |
Education and career
Price graduated with a BA in communications from the NSW Institute of Technology (now University of Technology, Sydney – UTS) in 1981.[2] She also holds an MA from UTS (2013), where she worked as lecturer for some years.[3] She received a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2019. Her thesis, "Destroying the joint: A case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women", is a history and assessment of the online feminist movement, Destroy The Joint, which she co-founded in 2012.[4][5]
While a student in the early 1980s, she worked as editorial assistant for Listening Post, the magazine published by volunteer radio station 2SER-FM.[6]
She joined The Sydney Morning Herald in February 1982.[7] In 1984 she worked on the first edition of The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide, edited by Leo Schofield and David Dale.[8] In the mid-1990s, Price was writing on women's[9] and human rights issues[10] for The Canberra Times.
Price was awarded an Edna Ryan Award for Media/Communication in 2012.[11]
She wrote the "2019 Women for Media Report: 'You can't be what you can't see'" for Women's Leadership Institute Australia.[12]