Andrew Dodd
Andrew Dodd is a radio, television. print and on-line journalist with twenty years experience in Australia and overseas. He is also a senior lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology.
He started his career in 1987 with the national community radio network, followed by work at ABC local radio and Radio Netherlands, while contributing to Triple J, and several magazines and newspapers. In 1991 Andrew was a broadcaster with ABC Radio National and presented many of the network's programs such as The Law Report, Australia Talks Back, Background Briefing, Drive and the national breakfast program, Daybreak. In 1993 he was the founding presenter of The Media Report.
In 1995 Andrew switched to television as reporter for the ABC’s 7.30 Report and briefly produced the ABC’s Stateline in the Northern Territory. In 1997 he became Communications Manager at Oxfam (Commuity Aid Abroad).
Between 1999 and 2004 he was a journalist with The Australian, specialising in media and business issues. He freelances for Radio National, where he presented Premiers Past, a series of interviews with 25 former Australian premiers. In 2005 he was a columnist with the Creative and Media section of The Age. Since 2007 he has been a media writer with crikey.com.au. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees from RMIT and Monash Universities respectively and a PhD in history from the University of Melbourne. Between 2005 and 2007 he lectured in the post graduate journalism program at RMIT and between 2005 and 2008 he was lead trainer for the Indonesia Australia Specialist Training Program journalism courses in Australia and Indonesia. He is a highly experienced trainer and conducts courses in media law, news writing and dealing with PR and Spin.
Awards include an ASEAN fellowship (1989), the Best Documentary on Public Radio Award in 1989 for a program on the death penalty in Indonesia, the George Munster Award for Independent Journalism in 1989 for a Law Report series on the aftermath of the US invasion of Grenada, the Selwyn Speight Award for radio reporting for a Background Briefing on the Australian gun lobby, finalist at the New York Radio Awards in 2000 for a Science Show in Antarctica and a Certificate of Merit, UN Media Peace Prize for the documentary, Sacred Stones on SBS Television (2000). Andrew is the current recipient of the Redmond Barry Fellowship, awarded jointly by the University of Melbourne and the State Library of Victoria.
Andrew is married with two children and lives in Melbourne.
