Dr Sally Young is Associate Professor and Reader in Political Science and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow for 2014-17. Her Future Fellowship project is investigating the controversial issue of press power in Australia from the introduction of radio in 1927 to the Finkelstein Inquiry in 2012.
Sally is also the lead chief investigator of an Australian Research Council Linkage project (with partners the National Library of Australia and the Walkley Foundation) that will provide the first comprehensive history of Australian press photography. Sally has published widely in the areas of Australian politics, Australian media, political communication and journalism studies.
She is the author of How Australia Decides: Election Reporting and the Media (Cambridge University Press, 2011); The Persuaders: Inside the Hidden Machine of Political Advertising (Pluto Press, 2004), From Banners to Broadcasts (National Library of Australia, 2005) and the editor of Government Communication in Australia (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Sally has also published over forty journal articles and conference papers. She is a regular media commentator on Australian politics and elections and currently writes a monthly column for the Age.
