Jenna Price

Jenna Price is an Australian journalist and academic. As of 2021, she is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and The Sydney Morning Herald columnist.[1] She is one of the founders of the online feminist movement, Destroy The Joint.

Jenna Price
Born1957-04-10
AwardsEdna Ryan Award
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Technology Sydney
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
ThesisDestroying the joint: A case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women (2019)
InfluencesAriadne Vromen
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Technology, Sydney
Australian National University

Education and career

Price graduated with a BA in communications from the NSW Institute of Technology (now University of Technology, Sydney – UTS) in 1981.[2] She also holds an MA from UTS (2013), where she worked as lecturer for some years.[3] She received a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2019. Her thesis, "Destroying the joint: A case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women", is a history and assessment of the online feminist movement, Destroy The Joint, which she co-founded in 2012.[4][5]

While a student in the early 1980s, she worked as editorial assistant for Listening Post, the magazine published by volunteer radio station 2SER-FM.[6]

She joined The Sydney Morning Herald in February 1982.[7] In 1984 she worked on the first edition of The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide, edited by Leo Schofield and David Dale.[8] In the mid-1990s, Price was writing on women's[9] and human rights issues[10] for The Canberra Times.

Price was awarded an Edna Ryan Award for Media/Communication in 2012.[11]

She wrote the "2019 Women for Media Report: 'You can't be what you can't see'" for Women's Leadership Institute Australia.[12]

References
  1. "Jenna Price". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  2. "Jenna Price". The Conversation. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  3. Price, Jenna (2013). 'I Can't Wait Til I'm an Actual Journalist': How Students Begin to Become Journalists (PDF) (Thesis).
  4. Price, Jenna (2019). Destroying the joint: A case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women (PDF) (Thesis).
  5. Nicholson, Larissa (8 October 2012). "Online and outraged: the people begin to talk back". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  6. "Despatches", Listening Post, Sydney Educational Broadcasting (17), 1 February 1981, ISSN 0157-6844
  7. "Movements", Listening Post, Sydney Educational Broadcasting (30), 1 March 1982, ISSN 0157-6844
  8. Connell, Jan (24 September 1980). "First Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide". Australian Food Timeline. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  9. Price, Jenna (30 July 1994). "Victimised women now hitting back". The Canberra Times. Vol. 69, no. 21, 654. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. p. 44. Retrieved 4 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. Price, Jenna (23 July 1994). "Church v state: Clancy joins the Timor debate". The Canberra Times. Vol. 69, no. 21, 647. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. p. 15. Retrieved 4 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. "Past Recipients". Edna Ryan Awards. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  12. Price, Jenna; Payne, Anne Maree (2019). 2019 Women for Media Report: 'You can't be what you can't see'. Women's Leadership Institute Australia.
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