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Helen Sissons is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, and a former BBC reporter with almost two decades of newsroom experience. Her research explores how journalists adapt to digital technologies and changing work routines, drawing on her expertise as a video ethnographer and sociolinguist. Helen has published on newsroom practice, digital transformation and media literacy. She is a co-director of the Toroa Centre for Communication Research and has advised industry and government on journalism education and misinformation. Her teaching and scholarship are grounded in a commitment to practice-informed research and inclusive, future-facing journalism. Philippa Smith is an independent researcher with a PhD in Language and Communication, grounded in a previous career as a journalist in New Zealand. Her work explores the intersection of language, media, and digital communication, with publications on news discourse, counterspeech, reality television, and the visual framing of political crises. A former Associate Professor lecturing in critical media studies at Auckland University of Technology, she has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute. She is deputy director of the Toroa Centre, an honorary research fellow at the University of Auckland, and contributes to research on online harm and digital safety. |
