Dr Andrea Jean Baker

Commission on the Status of Women PAPER CALL FOR 2026 AEJMC Conference, New Orleans, LA. August 5-8, 2026. (Submissions uploaded to the AEJMC site no later than 11:59 P.M. (Central Daylight Time) on Wednesday, April 1, 2026). Please consult (www.aejmc.org/aejmc-events...) @aejmc.bsky.social

What are small modular reactors, a new type of nuclear power plant sought to feed AI’s energy demand? Rising electricity demand has researchers exploring a wide range of methods to generate more power, including a type of nuclear reactor that’s smaller than traditional nuclear plants.

AI data centers are driving massive electricity demand. Small modular reactors could help meet it, but they won't be commercially available until the mid-2030s at earliest. An engineer focused on the nuclear industry explains what you need to know about this emerging technology.

Super congrats to Sienna Pietrosante (Monash University) for winning "Australian Press Council Undergraduate Prize for an essay on media ethics" at last night's 2025 Ossie Awards for student journalism for her essay, "How did ABC News report on the impact of AI in journalism?"

Working with amazing journalism scholars in the Commission for the Status of Women, c/o Association of Journalism Education and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

DIANE KEATON transformed American cinema with performances that redefined leading women on screen. From Annie Hall's Oscar-winning charm to The Godfather's quiet strength, she brought intelligence, vulnerability, and style to every role. A huge loss. #RIP

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

‘To my happy surprise, it grew beyond my imagination’: Robert Redford’s Sundance legacy Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival provided support for independent filmmakers and transformed Hollywood in the process.

Great to have a fabulous journalism legend like @JennyCooney help teach young arts journalists at Monash University. Here’s Jenny’s reflection on Hollywood icon, Robert Redford, and the Sundance festival he founded in 1981. Jenny interviewed 'Bob' in person a few times during their amazing careers!

Bob Woodward Remembers Robert Redford

NEW: "I loved him." Bob Woodward remembers Robert Redford

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/b...

All The President’s Men (1976). R.I.P. Robert Redford.

Prescriptions from @jodieginsberg.bsky.social to protect journalism at this moment:
-do your job (don't just be a stenographer - report properly & courageously)
-show your workings (explain the enterprise to the public)
-celebrate your impact (report on the industry)

Good opening keynote at #FOJ25

From today's opening keynote - @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social on the many ways, positive & negative, that AI can affect how journalists work #datajconf

Nick Diakopoulos presenting his keynote talk at the European Data and Computational Journalism Conference 2025

And we're off! Day 2 of #datajconf starts with @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social giving our first keynote on AI's impact on Future Information Ecosystems

Watch the teaser trailer for 100 Nights of Hero starring Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, Maika Monroe, Amir El-Masry, Charli XCX, Richard E. Grant and Felicity Jones 🖤

Following a world premiere at this year's Venice Film Festival, the film will be released in theaters on December 5.

1,500 film industry workers signed a letter as "Venice for Palestine" to try to get Gal Gadot disinvited from the Venice Film Festival.

Gadot decided before the letter came out not to attend the festival. Still, it is ridiculous that such a letter was even sent.

Everything you need to know about the Venice Film Festival Hollywood's biggest stars are heading to Venice, Italy, for the 82nd Venice Film Festival. This prestigious international event, second only to Cannes, kicks off on Wednesday and runs through September 6.

Hollywood's biggest stars are heading to Venice, Italy, for the 82nd Venice Film Festival.

Interesting to learn that Solutions Journalism is on the rise in China. By including a focus on solutions, it can allow Chinese journalists to focus on some topics that might normally be censored. #AEJMC25

The folks @aejmc.bsky.social have released an updated schedule for the upcoming conference, so I've updated my searchable/browsable web app, with data extraction by Google Gemini:

thescoop.org/aejmc25/

‘Innocent life matters’: The photographs of children that captured the world’s conscience From Sudan to Vietnam and Gaza, images of suffering children have become totems of humanitarian catastrophes and prompted hard questions about photographic ethics.

Thanks to Nick Newling from the Sydney Morning Herald for interviewing me today in my capacity as a journalism scholar about the images of Gaza and how "bearing witness” is a critical role of photojournalism.

A very full and fascinating Audience Section panel on influencer cultures at #iamcr2025 #iamcr #iamcraud More tomorrow!

Digital Journalism article snapshot

Super fascinating publication about the disparities of digital literacies in newsrooms in the Middle East and Northern Africa that I've been exposed to in during the #CPT 50 precon at #IAMCR2025 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🎓🏆 Congrats to the winners of the 2025 Stuart Hall Award!
Their work examines media witnessing, menstrual stigma (@xiaodongyan.bsky.social), and the politics of representation.
Full story: iamcr.org/awards/hall2...
#IAMCR2025 #StuartHallAward #MediaStudies

The exact moment the MeToo movement died. There's been almost a decade of half-victories and back steps.

www.mamamia.com.au/me-too-movem...

AI is driving down the price of knowledge – universities have to rethink what they offer Universities have relied on expert knowledge being scarce, but AI is changing that. Tuition now needs to focus on human skills that machines still struggle to copy.

theconversation.com/ai-is-drivin...

Sacked artist to be reinstated as Australia’s Venice representative The stunning about-face was announced by the federal funding agency Creative Australia as it released the findings of a report into the high-profile sacking that sparked resignations, petitions and pr...

www.theage.com.au/culture/art-...

Antoinette Lattouf wins unlawful termination case against ABC A judge has delivered his decision in the high-profile case brought against the national broadcaster.

www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...

Congrats to Dr. Rana Arafat, City St. George’s, University of London, who is the winner of the 2025 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Early-Career Woman Scholar Award.
#AEJMC25 #AejmcAwards

Congratulations to Dr. Dinfin Mulupi on being awarded the 2025 Mary Ann Yodelis Smith Award for Feminist Scholarship. @aejmc.bsky.social

Feeling very happy and honoured that together with Hannah Ötting, Vanessa Kokoschka and Henning Eichler, we won the Top Extended Abstract Award of the @icajsd.bsky.social
Journalism Division at #ICA25! If you want to hear more about the project - join our presentation today at 3p.m. in Centennial B.