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Ms Bonita Mason
BEc (Murdoch University); MA Journalism (UTS)
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- Role:
- Lecturer
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- Department:
- Department of Journalism
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- Location:
- Building 208 420
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- Telephone:
- +61 8 9266 7712
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- Email:
- bonita.mason@curtin.edu.au
Bonita Mason – academic, policy advisor, journalist and writer – teaches news and feature writing at Curtin University. She previously worked as a media-studies tutor at the University of Technology, Sydney, as a researcher and assistant editor at the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, and has published in books and magazines as a freelance journalist. Bonita has also worked as a policy advisor and speechwriter for government and Aboriginal organisations, and a media advisor and writer for Aboriginal organisations in the Kimberley. Her success as a journalist was recognised in 1997 with two national journalism awards. Bonita has an MA in journalism (coursework) from UTS, and is working on an MA by thesis at the same university.
Research Interests
Research interests include: journalist-source relationships; reflective practice; reporting institutions; journalism and trauma; practice-led research; journalism and values.
Teaching - Undergraduate
J111: Introduction to Print; J314: Feature Writing
Teaching - Postgraduate
J514: Feature Writing
Memberships
Australian Centre for Independent Journalism
Journalism Education Association of Australia
Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance
Sydney PEN
Awards
1997 Walkley Award in the Best Magazine Feature category, for “The girl in Cell 4”, the story of an Aboriginal woman who died in a Sydney prison, published in HQ, March/April, 1997.
1997 George Munster Award for Freelance Journalism for “The girl in Cell 4”.
Publications
Minor Creative Works
- Mason, B. 2007. What You Do and Don’t Want – UTS Writers’ Anthology 2007. Sydney, NSW: ABC Books.
