Jennifer Martin
@jennifermartin.bsky.social
I'm a senior lecturer in journalism at Deakin University & my research explores how great journalism can ignite our emotions and drive change. I ask who gets to tell our stories and who gets left behind.
It's been a red hot minute but I'm back in bluesky because it's where to best of folk are. Hello @mxarmstrong.bsky.social !
September 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's been a red hot minute but I'm back in bluesky because it's where to best of folk are. Hello @mxarmstrong.bsky.social !
Such an honour to be highly commended for the 2025 Hazel Rowley prize alongside Monique Rooney - congrats to the winner Michelle Staff & big thanku to the judges.
📣 We're thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship is Michelle Staff for her proposed joint biography of sisters Bessie Rischbieth & Olive Evans. Monique Rooney & Jennifer Martin also received Highly Commended Awards. Read more on www.writersvictoria.org.au 🧡
March 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Such an honour to be highly commended for the 2025 Hazel Rowley prize alongside Monique Rooney - congrats to the winner Michelle Staff & big thanku to the judges.
Ok. Enough of having a foot in 'that other place' & here. I'm coming over here before I sink in toxic bog of bleargh (academic term).
February 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Ok. Enough of having a foot in 'that other place' & here. I'm coming over here before I sink in toxic bog of bleargh (academic term).
My article with Denis Muller on the Walkleys in The Conversation: theconversation.com/the-walkley-...
The Walkley awards were begun by a prominent oil baron. How do we reconcile their history and future...
How can we reconcile our present attitudes and knowledge with historical realities – and how resistant our is media to being seduced by powerful interests?
theconversation.com
November 21, 2023 at 10:22 PM
My article with Denis Muller on the Walkleys in The Conversation: theconversation.com/the-walkley-...
Here I am back watching ticketek' blue line of doom hoping 4 Swift tix bc Ms 22 says it will be 'The Concert of Her Generation' & dammit the 'kid' never asks 4 a thing & I'd kill 4 her & this is my only legal means of showing her that.
November 10, 2023 at 5:11 AM
Here I am back watching ticketek' blue line of doom hoping 4 Swift tix bc Ms 22 says it will be 'The Concert of Her Generation' & dammit the 'kid' never asks 4 a thing & I'd kill 4 her & this is my only legal means of showing her that.
To the half dozen or so teens who, enroute to their school swim carnival, took time to give a thumbs up to a 55-yr-old beet-red faced woman dying ('running') on a treadmill: I seriously love you all & the future of the world is in good hands.
November 8, 2023 at 11:29 AM
To the half dozen or so teens who, enroute to their school swim carnival, took time to give a thumbs up to a 55-yr-old beet-red faced woman dying ('running') on a treadmill: I seriously love you all & the future of the world is in good hands.
Because nothing says 'Welcome Jen, this is Your Place' better than a bloke with a fruit bowl on his head a garlanded bull. Just another Friday at State Library Victoria.
November 3, 2023 at 10:45 AM
Because nothing says 'Welcome Jen, this is Your Place' better than a bloke with a fruit bowl on his head a garlanded bull. Just another Friday at State Library Victoria.
Is there ANYTHING more exciting than getting a 100+ year old document on a family history 4 a book I'm writing translated from German for ME? No, Dear Reader, there is not.
October 3, 2023 at 6:21 AM
Is there ANYTHING more exciting than getting a 100+ year old document on a family history 4 a book I'm writing translated from German for ME? No, Dear Reader, there is not.
Loving 'Mrs Davis' - utterly mad & weirdly compelling. Thanks 4 the headsup @andersf.bsky.social
October 1, 2023 at 4:18 AM
Loving 'Mrs Davis' - utterly mad & weirdly compelling. Thanks 4 the headsup @andersf.bsky.social
'Look at that for a Hills Hoist!'
September 30, 2023 at 7:58 AM
'Look at that for a Hills Hoist!'
Loved Darcy's victory speech - humble & filled with joy.
September 30, 2023 at 7:55 AM
Loved Darcy's victory speech - humble & filled with joy.
Darcy: To the 19th Man, the Collingwood Army!
September 30, 2023 at 7:54 AM
Darcy: To the 19th Man, the Collingwood Army!
'It was fun to play. Must've been fun to watch but it was fun to play' - Collingwood skipper Darcy Moore.
September 30, 2023 at 7:28 AM
'It was fun to play. Must've been fun to watch but it was fun to play' - Collingwood skipper Darcy Moore.
And the Black & White rise as one!
September 30, 2023 at 7:25 AM
And the Black & White rise as one!
He forgot about marking the footy!
September 30, 2023 at 7:16 AM
He forgot about marking the footy!
LOVE footy speak: 'Does him cold!'
September 30, 2023 at 7:07 AM
LOVE footy speak: 'Does him cold!'
Did we just miss KISS at Grand Final? Bloody pathetic Channel 7!
September 30, 2023 at 6:16 AM
Did we just miss KISS at Grand Final? Bloody pathetic Channel 7!
Dearest 19 followers. I don't deserve u. My 3 Adult Spawn have exposed me as a fraud. They never called me Dexter of plant world. I was giddy with tulip glee. & crowned myself. I'm a monster & regret nothing. Tulips!!
September 18, 2023 at 7:50 PM
Dearest 19 followers. I don't deserve u. My 3 Adult Spawn have exposed me as a fraud. They never called me Dexter of plant world. I was giddy with tulip glee. & crowned myself. I'm a monster & regret nothing. Tulips!!
So NOW the Muse alights upon me? No sleep, lectures to write, conference paper to plan and NOW I get 'inspired'? Of course I do. My Muse is Zsa Zsa & I'm a slave to her charms.And 85% dark chocolate.
September 14, 2023 at 4:55 AM
So NOW the Muse alights upon me? No sleep, lectures to write, conference paper to plan and NOW I get 'inspired'? Of course I do. My Muse is Zsa Zsa & I'm a slave to her charms.And 85% dark chocolate.
Reposted by Jennifer Martin
There's a lot of nostalgia for the 2000s but I wouldn't want to go back to a time when death cabs were only for cuties.
September 9, 2023 at 10:16 PM
There's a lot of nostalgia for the 2000s but I wouldn't want to go back to a time when death cabs were only for cuties.
My book is about Eva Sommer who won Australia's first national prize for journalism, a Walkley, in 1956. Which is, of course, why I'm writing about an Austrian brass factory in 1890. I'm calling it contextapation & the struggle, Dear Reader, is real.
September 8, 2023 at 3:50 AM
My book is about Eva Sommer who won Australia's first national prize for journalism, a Walkley, in 1956. Which is, of course, why I'm writing about an Austrian brass factory in 1890. I'm calling it contextapation & the struggle, Dear Reader, is real.
Today I had High Tea at Parliament House AND a tour of the Library. Which had rolling ladders, two spiral staircases & a stone lion called Clarence. That's what I call Thursday!
September 7, 2023 at 6:34 AM
Today I had High Tea at Parliament House AND a tour of the Library. Which had rolling ladders, two spiral staircases & a stone lion called Clarence. That's what I call Thursday!
Saw Ed Keupper at The National last nite - brilliant but close 2nd was old musos/roadies (?)behind me recounting past gigs & capers. Lots of puchups over women - ah the 80s pub scene!
September 6, 2023 at 9:35 PM
Saw Ed Keupper at The National last nite - brilliant but close 2nd was old musos/roadies (?)behind me recounting past gigs & capers. Lots of puchups over women - ah the 80s pub scene!
Behold the Tulip of Victory! Planted on Mother's Day by me & my full-grown Trinity of Offspring. All the more fab as the kids call me the Dexter of the plant world. But not today. Today belongs to me.
September 5, 2023 at 11:10 PM
Behold the Tulip of Victory! Planted on Mother's Day by me & my full-grown Trinity of Offspring. All the more fab as the kids call me the Dexter of the plant world. But not today. Today belongs to me.