Julianne Schultz

Biography

Professor Emeritus Julianne Schultz AM FAHA FRSN was the founding editor of Griffith REVIEW, the award-winning literary and public affairs quarterly established by Griffith University in 2003 to provide a public intellectual leadership and a platform for long-form essays addressing topical issues beyond the daily news agenda.

Dr Schultz is an emeritus professor of Media and Culture at Griffith’s Centre for Social and Cultural Research, and a member of the board of the Sydney Writers Festival. She writes a regular column for The Guardian.

She chaired The Conversation Media Group, Australian Film TV and Radio School and Queensland Design Council. She has been a non-executive director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Grattan Institute; Copyright Agency Ltd. Her advisory roles focus on journalism, media, culture, including Foundation for Public Interest Journalism; Centre for Advanced Journalism; the Companion of Australian Media; High Resolves Initiative; Australian Indigenous Mentoring Enterprise and Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.

Following her role as co-chair of the Creative Stream at the 2020 Summit in April 2008 she was appointed a member of the then Minster for the Arts’ Creative Australia Advisory Group, and chaired the reference group for the 2013 National Cultural Policy. She has remained involved in the development of cultural policy. She was the co-author of a report on new models of funding the arts and creative sectors, New Models, New Moneys.

Julianne Schultz received her doctorate from the University of Sydney. She is the author books including The Idea of Australia (Allen & Unwin) Reviving the Fourth Estate (Cambridge Uni Press); Steel City Blues (Penguin); editor of Not Just Another Business (Pluto), co-author of The Phone Book (Penguin), the editor of more than 60 other books and collections, the author of numerous chapters on journalism and media practice, a consultant on the ABC TV Blackfella Films series, Books that Made Us, executive producer of the forthcoming SBS TV Blackfella Films series, The Idea of Australia, and the author of librettos for two operas composed by Andrew Schultz, Black River and Going into Shadows.

She began her career as a reporter with the ABC and Australian Financial Review. As an academic and journalism educator she was the founding director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney.

She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2009 for her services service to the community as a journalist, writer, editor and academic, for fostering debate on issues affecting society and for professional ethics and accountability.