Dr Anne Kruger

Anne is a leader in pre-emptive, evidence-based digital research and practice empowering external media organisations and communications stakeholders to address misinformation. At UQ she is currently building a Community of Practice with industry and students called 'AI and the next generation of journalism'. Anne was APAC director for global online verification experts First Draft News for four years and Associate Professor (academic) and interim co-director of the Centre for Media Transition at UTS. Anne is a subcommittee board member for Australia's first misinformation and disinformation regulatory code of practice, enacted by the communications and media regulator ACMA and administered by peak industry DIGI. Anne was co-chief investigator on behalf of DIGI during the code's development while at UTS/First Draft. Anne also serves on the national ethics board for the MEAA as an independent member. Anne is a grant recipient of UNESCO's International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) and has authored numerous guidebooks and articles on verification, responsible reporting and information disorder in Australia and Southeast Asia. She has developed communications strategies and training preparing disaster managers and responders to climate and other emergency events. She has developed training for online celebritities and influences on how to not be a misinfluencer and instead protect and lead against misinformation. Anne was an Assistant Professor of Practice and Head of Broadcast at the University of Hong Kong where she established a digital verification lab in 2014 collaborating with technologists Meedan, and led media literacy projects with UNESCO throughout APAC. Anne was an anchor at CNN Hong Kong during SARS, and later a finance reporter at Bloomberg TV. She began her career in Toowoomba for WIN TV, was later ABC Landline presenter for four years, 7pm weekend news presenter for Queensland, fill in ABC News Breakfast host and held digital producer and Chief of Staff roles. Anne has a PhD in social media verification education.