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Margaret Simons
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Margaret Simons

Australian academic, journalist and author

Margaret Simons (born 1960) is an Australian academic, freelance journalist and author. She has written numerous articles and essays as well as many books, including a biography of Senate leader of the Australian Labor Party, Penny Wong and Australian minister for the environment Tanya Plibersek.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Margaret Simons (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1960.1

About

Her essay Fallen Angels won the Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism.

She is as of 2021 an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.

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Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUniversity of Technology Sydney3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of Adelaide3

Simons was born in the UK in 1960.

Simons has a doctorate in creative arts from the University of Technology, Sydney.

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Career

Occupation: prose writer, university teacher, journalist.6

In 2010, Simons co-founded, with Melissa Sweet, the community-funded news site YouComm News, run by the Public Interest Journalism Foundation based at Swinburne University of Technology. At this time, she was a research fellow at the Institute of Social Research at Swinburne, and also a Senior Associate of RMIT University.

She was the media reporter for Crikey and has been a regular media commentator in The Guardian. She has also written for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, and The Monthly. For many years, she wrote the "Earthmother" gardening column for The Australian, and has also written gardening book and novels.

She was director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism and coordinator of the Master of Journalism degree at the University of Melbourne from 2012 to 2017, and served as Associate Professor of journalism at Monash University between 2017 and 2019.

From 2018 to 2021, Simons was a Director and Chair of Research at the Public Interest Journalism Initiative.

As of 2021, Simons is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at Melbourne University.

From Wikipedia’s article on Margaret Simons (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Personal life

  • Born1960, England7
  • CitizenshipAustralia8

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