Bridget Griffen-Foley
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Bridget Griffen-Foley (born 27 June 1970) is a professor in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature,
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. She is author, co-author or editor of a large number of reference works and published articles on a wide range of topics relating to the histories of Australian newspapers, radio, and television outlets.


Career

Griffen-Foley gained her BA in Modern History and English from Macquarie University in 1991, with Honours in 1992. She gained her PhD in Modern History at Macquarie in 1996, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the
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. She was appointed professor of Media Studies at Macquarie in 2013 and founder of the Centre for Media History in 2007, serving as its director 2007–2016.


Publications


Books

*Griffen-Foley, B. (1999) ''The House of Packer: The Making of a Media Empire'', Allen & Unwin *Griffen-Foley, B. (2000, 2014) ''Sir Frank Packer: a Biography'', HarperCollins *Griffen-Foley, B. (2003) ''Party Games: Australian Politicians and the Media from War to Dismissal'', Text Publishing *Griffen-Foley, B. (2009) ''Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio'', UNSW Press *Griffen-Foley, B. (ed.) (2014) ''A Companion to the Australian Media'', Australian Scholarly Publishing *Griffen-Foley, B. (2020) ''Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives''


Articles

*''Let's Join in: Children and ABC Radio'' in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *''Keeping company: encountering the Fairfax Media archive'' in ''Inside Story'', 27 August 2018


Other activities

Griffen-Foley was *historical consultant for the 2013 mini-series '' Power Games: The Packer–Murdoch Story'' *board member of the
State Library of New South Wales The State Library of New South Wales, part of which is known as the Mitchell Library, is a large heritage-listed special collections, reference and research library open to the public and is one of the oldest libraries in Australia. Establis ...
(2003–2012) *member of the selection board for the Australian Media Hall of Fame (2015–2019) Griffen-Foley has been involved with the
Australian Dictionary of Biography The ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's ...
(ADB) since 2000, firstly with its NSW Working Party, and more recently joining the Editorial Board in 2017. , she had written 16 biographies for the ADB. Mainly of journalists and media proprietors, subjects include
Sir Frank Packer Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer (3 December 19061 May 1974), was an Australian media proprietor who controlled Australian Consolidated Press and the Nine Network. He was a patriarch of the Packer family. Early life Frank Packer was born in ...
and Sir Warwick Fairfax.


Awards and recognition

*Awarded the Medal for Modern History by Macquarie University in 1992 while studying for her PhD *Shortlisted, Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature, 2010 for ''Changing Stations : The Story of Australian Commercial Radio'' *Elected Fellow of the
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in 2011


Family

Bridget is the twin sister of Luke Aquinas Foley (born 27 June 1970).


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Griffen-Foley, Bridget Australian historians Australian women historians 1970 births Living people Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Macquarie University alumni Academic staff of Macquarie University