Dr Richard Murray
Lecture and Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Research Fellow
School of Communication and Arts

Book
Downman, Scott and Murray, Richard (2018). Hyperlocal journalism and digital disruptions: The journalism change agents in Australia and New Zealand. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315172637
Book Chapter
Downman, Scott and Murray, Richard (2020). The hyperlocal 'renaissance' in Australia and New Zealand. The Routledge companion to local media and journalism. (pp. 255-264) edited by Agnes Gulyas and David Baines. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351239943-30
Journal Articles
Greste, Peter and Murray, Richard (2019). Why Australia needs a Media Freedom Act. The Political Economy of Communication, 7 (2), 105-108.
Murray, Richard (2017). Reporting on the impossible: the use of defectors in covering North Korea. Ethical Space: the international journal of communication ethics, 14 (4), 17-24.
Downman, Scott and Murray, Richard (2017). Journalism: empowering communities and building trust. Ethical Space: the international journal of communication ethics, 14 (4), 2-3.
Downman, Scott and Murray, Richard (2017). The Change Makers' Project: A service learning approach to journalism education in Australia. Fusion Journal, 4 (11)
Obijiofor, Levi, Murray, Richard and Singh, Shailendra B. (2016). Changes in journalism in two post-authoritarian non-Western countries. International Communication Gazette, 79 (4), 379-399. doi: 10.1177/1748048516682147
Murray, Richard (2015). New technologies in developing societies: from theory to practice. African Journalism Studies, 36 (4), 164-166. doi: 10.1080/23743670.2015.1119497
Conference Papers
Downman, Scott and Murray, Richard (2020). Deserts and Green Shoots –Emerging models of local and hyperlocal news in South East Queensland . JOURNALISM and DEMOCRACY 2020: Transformations in journalism research, education and practice, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 1-4 December 2020. The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia.
Murray, Richard , Ananian-Welsh, Rebecca and Greste, Peter (2019). The law or the lawyers: understanding the of legal counsel and advisors in Australian editorial processes. In: The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia. Plurality, Precarity and Possibilities, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (). 3-6 December 2019.
Thomas, Deborah J. and Murray, Richard (2019). True crime does pay: the rise of the true crime podcast and the transformation of investigative journalism. In: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia 2019, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, (). 4-6 December 2019.
English, Peter and Murray, Richard (2018). North Korea's return to the field of international sport. In: The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia. Journalism from the margins to the mainstream, Hobart, TAS, Australia, (). 3-5 December 2018.
Murray, Richard (2017). Bizarre News Triangle: North Korea, defectors and foreign correspondents. Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia 2017 Conference: The Second Coming of Journalism? Rebirth, resurrection, renewal, resistance, resurgence., Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 4-6 December 2017.
Downman, Scott and Murray, Richard (2017). Experimenting with the hyperlocal in Southeast Queensland. In: The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia. The Second Coming of Journalism?Rebirth, resurrection, renewal, resistance, resurgence., Newcastle, NSW, Australia, (). 4-6 December 2017.
Downman, Scott and Richard Murray (2016). Teaching human rights journalism through a hyperlocal journalism project: Change Makers. World Journalism Education Congress, Auckland, New Zealand, 14-16 July 2016.
Obijiofor, Levi, Murray, Richard and Singh, Shailendra (2016). Locating journalism in three post-military non-Western countries. In: World Journalism Education Congress. Identity and Integrity in Journalism Education, Auckland, New Zealand, (). 14-16 July 2016.
Murray, Richard (2015). Reporting North Korea: Understanding tyranny and bad hair from Australia. Work in Progress (WiP), St Lucia, QLD Australia, 29-30 September 2015.
Downman, Scott and Murray, Richard (2015). #journalismisdead: resuscitating a critical profession and reimagining the journalist through first year journalism courses at an Australian university. In: The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia. Dangerous Journalism, Barthurst, NSW, Australia, (). 30 November-2 December 2015.
Murray, Richard (2015). Dangerous journalism –the perilous job of reporting from the Republic of Korea. In: The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia. Dangerous Journalism, Bathurst, NSW, Australia, (). 30 November-2 December 2015.
Thesis
Murray, Richard (2020). Constructions of good and evil: the Koreas in international news. PhD Thesis, School of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.910