Michael Gawenda is one of Australia’s best known journalists and authors and Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Journalism.
In a journalism career spanning three decades, Michael has been a political reporter, a foreign correspondent based in London and in Washington, a columnist, a feature writer, a senior editor at Time magazine and the Editor-in-Chief of The Age in Melbourne from 1997 to 2004. He has won numerous journalism awards including three Walkley awards.
Michael was the inaugural Director of the Centre for Advanced Journalism and remains as a Fellow at the Centre.
He is the lead Chief Investigator of an ARC project studying the history and significance of press photography in Australia (along with Sally Young, Kate Darian-Smith and Fay Anderson). The National Library of Australia and the Australian Walkley Foundation are also partners on the project.
