Dr Richard Murray
Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
+61 7 336 53324

Books
Obijiofor, Levi and Murray, Richard (2022). Challenges of reporting Africa for an international audience. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Downman, Scott and Murray, Richard (2018). Hyperlocal journalism and digital disruptions: the journalism change agents in Australia and New Zealand. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315172637
Book Chapters
Murray, Richard (2023). Subsistence journalism: corporate control and corporate change in Queensland regional journalism. CSR communication in the media: media management on sustainability at a global level. (pp. 197-209) edited by Franzisca Weder, Lars Rademacher and René Schmidpeter. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-18976-0_14
Greste, Peter and Murray, Richard (2022). Press freedom. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Journalism. (pp. 1122-1134) edited by Gregory A. Borchard. Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
Murray, Richard, Ananian-Welsh, Rebecca and Greste, Peter (2021). Journalism on Ice - National Security Laws and The Chilling Effect in Australian Journalism. Counter-Terrorism Laws and Freedom of Expression: Global Perspectives. (pp. 295-317) edited by Workneh, Tewodros and Haridakis, Paul. Lanham, MD United States: Lexington Books.
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
Murray, Richard (2023). Book Review: Whistleblowing for Change: Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice. Australian Outlook: Australian Institute of International Affairs.
English, Peter and Murray, Richard (2023). War and Peace, Freeze and Thaw: Regional Narratives of North Korea and the 2018 Winter Olympics. Communication and Sport, 1-18. doi: 10.1177/21674795231163892
Murray, Richard (2022). Journalism Ethics at the Crossroads: Democracy, Fake News, and the News Crisis, Roger Patching and Martin Hirst (2022). Australian Journalism Review, 44 (2), 265-266. doi: 10.1386/ajr_00108_5
Murray, Richard (2022). The ghosts of News Corp: journalism and news in post-Murdoch regional Queensland. Ethical Space, 19 (1).
English, Peter and Murray, Richard (2021). North Korea and the ‘Peace Games’: media representations of sport and politics at the 2018 winter olympics. Continuum, 36 (1), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2021.1965542
Ananian-Welsh, Rebecca, Kendall, Sarah and Murray, Richard (2021). Risk and uncertainty in public interest journalism: the impact of espionage law on press freedom. Melbourne University Law Review, 44 (3), 764-811.
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.
Obijiofor, Levi, Murray, Richard and Singh, Shailendra B. (2017). Changes in journalism in two post-authoritarian non-Western countries. International Communication Gazette, 79 (4), 379-399. doi: 10.1177/1748048516682147
Downman, Scott and Murray, Richard (2017). The Change Makers' Project: A service learning approach to journalism education in Australia. Fusion Journal, 4 (11).
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
Martin, Fiona and Murray, Richard (2022). Journalism and communication academic mental health. Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia Conference 2022: Journalism in Post-Normal Times, Perth, WA Australia, 6-8 December 2022.
Thomson, T. J. and Murray, Richard (2022). Combatting visual mis/disinformation: an exploration into journalistic fact-checking practices, barriers, and motivation. Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia Conference 2022: Journalism in Post-Normal Times, Perth, 6-8 December 2022.
Murray, Richard and Greste, Peter (2022). Breaking the law: How Australian journalists and the organisations they work for have reacted to meta-data retention laws. Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia Conference 2022: Journalism in Post-Normal Times, Perth, WA Australia, 4-6 December, 2022.
Murray, Richard (2021). Information as a right in regional Queensland. Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia - Journalism, Policy & Politics, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 1-3 December 2021.
Murray, Richard, Ananian-Welsh, Rebecca and Greste, Peter (2021). Journalism on Ice: National Security Laws and the Chilling Effect in Australian Journalism. International Communication Association Conference: Engaging the Essential Work of Care: Communication, Connectedness, and Social Justice, Denver, CO United States, 27-31 May 2021.
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.
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.
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. The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia: Plurality, Precarity and Possibilities, Sydney, NSW Australia, 3-6 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.
Obijiofor, Levi, Murray, Richard and Singh, Shailendra (2016). Locating journalism in three post-military non-Western countries. World Journalism Education Congress. Identity and Integrity in Journalism Education, Auckland, New Zealand, 14-16 July 2016.
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.
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