Biographical note

Levi Obijiofor is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the School of Communication and Arts of the University of Queensland, Australia. His publications include numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and two scholarly books, namely Journalism across Cultures: An Introduction (co-authored with Professor Folker Hanusch, 2011) and New Technologies in Developing Societies: From Theory to Practice (2015). He undertakes regular research consultancies for international organisations such as UNESCO, the Open Professional School, UNDP, the World Bank, and the Food and Agriculture Organisation. In 2013, he received an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant of $123,235 for a collaborative research project that investigated refugee parents' employment aspirations and how they communicate their future occupational pathways to their children. Richard Murray is a Lecturer in Digital Journalism at the School of Communication and Arts of the University of Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on hyperlocal and local journalism in regional Queensland, the affective construction of good and evil in international news, as well as how journalists interact with the law and lawyers. His first book, Hyperlocal News and the Digital Disruption (2017), investigated hyperlocal news in Australia and New Zealand.