Martin Hirst Author

Dr Martin Hirst is a freelance scholar, author, journalist and artist working in Melbourne, Australia. He has worked as a journalist and editor since 1975 and taught journalism in Australia, New Zealand and the UK between 1993 and 2016. Dr Hirst is a founding editor of the open access journal The Political Economy of Communication, published by the Political Economy section of the International Association of Mass Communication Research. He is also the author of seven books about journalism.