Julie Posetti is an award-winning Australian journalist and academic. A former news editor, presenter and political reporter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Posetti is currently based in Paris as a Research Fellow with the World Editors Forum and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. She is completing a PhD on "The Twitterisation of Journalism" at the University of Wollongong, Australia, where she teaches social journalism, radio, TV and multimedia storytelling.
She recently completed a major UNESCO-commissioned study of journalistic source protection in the digital era in 121 countries for WAN-IFRA (to be published mid-year).
Editor of the EditorsWeblog and a PBS Mediashift correspondent, she has consulted widely to media organisations on the digital transformation of journalism and she is a sought-after social media trainer. You can follow her on Twitter @julieposetti