Matthew Ricketson is an academic and journalist and author.
He has worked on staff at The Age, The Australian and Time Australia magazine, among other publications, and won awards for his journalism, including the George Munster prize for freelance journalism. He headed the journalism program at RMIT for 11 years and was the inaugural professor of journalism at the University of Canberra. He has been a professor of communication at Deakin University since 2017. He has written a biography of Australian author, Paul Jennings, a textbook about feature writing, a monograph, Telling True Stories, and edited a collection of outstanding profile articles. He co-edited with Andrew Dodd Upheaval: Disrupted lives in journalism, which was short-listed for Oral History Australia’s book award in 2021. Earlier in 2022 he co-authored with Patrick Mullins Who Needs the ABC? Why taking it for granted is no longer an option which was published by Scribe. He has been a chief investigator on three Australian Research Council grants about the news media and the future of journalism. In 2011-2012 he assisted Ray Finkelstein QC in the Independent Inquiry into the Media and Media Regulation. He has been the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance’s representative on the Australian Press Council since 2016.
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