Dr Folker Hanusch
BA(Hons), PhD Qld. Grad Cert (Education) Qld.
Position: Lecturer in Journalism
Office: D1.27
Tel: +61 7 5430 2852
Email: fhanusch@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Journalism
- Communication Studies
Research areas
- Media coverage of death
- Comparative journalism practice and international news
- Tourism and mass media
- Travel journalism
- Journalism theory
- War/peace journalism
- Journalism education
Profile
Dr Folker Hanusch is a practising journalist as well as a journalism academic. After spending his childhood and early professional life in Germany, he moved to Australia to take up studies for a Bachelor of Arts (double major in Journalism) at the University of Queensland in early 1999. This was followed by an honours degree in Journalism, as well as his PhD, which was awarded in early 2006.
Dr. Hanusch has also worked as a journalist for a number of years, both for German-language as well as Australian newspapers. He has been working as a section editor for the German-language weekly Die Woche in Australien since 2001 and has also published news stories in The Courier-Mail, worked at the Sunshine Coast Daily and was student editor of the University of Queensland School of Journalism and Communication’s The Queensland Independent during 2002.
Publications
Books
- Hanusch, F. 2008. Distant deaths: How newspapers report fatal events from abroad, VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken.
Book chapters
- Hanusch F, Servaes J. Death on the front page. In: (Fuller L. ed), Tsunami 2004, Communication Perspectives, Hampton Press. In press.
Journal articles
- Hanusch F. 2008. The impact of cultural dimensions on language use in quality newspapers, Estudos de Comunicação (Studies in Communication), 3, 51-78.
- Hanusch F. 2008. Valuing those close to us: A study of German and Australian quality newspapers’ reporting of death in foreign news, Journalism Studies, 9:3, 341-356.
- Hanusch F. 2007. Publishing the perished: The visibility of foreign death in Australian quality newspapers, Media International Australia, 125, 29-40.
- Hanusch F. 2003. Coverage of international and Pacific news in The Fiji Times and The Australian, Pacific Journalism Review, 9, 59-78.
- Obijiofor L, Hanusch F. 2003. Foreign news coverage in five African newspapers, Australian Journalism Review, 25:1, 145-164.
Conference papers
- Hanusch, F. 2008. The Hofstedian approach: Suggestions for a conceptual development of comparative journalism studies, Comparative Journalism Studies Conference, 25-27 June, Hobart.
- Obijiofor, L., Hanusch, F. 2008. Foreign news in the age of new technologies, Comparative Journalism Studies Conference, 25-27 June, Hobart.
- Hanusch F. 2004. The coverage of death in international news – A critique of past approaches, The Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA), July 7-9, Sydney.
- Obijiofor L, Hanusch F. 2002. Look who’s talking: International news reporting in the newspapers of developing countries, The Journalism Education Association (JEA) annual conference: International news reporting, December 2-6, Hong Kong.Back to top