Dr Louise North has written extensively on gender and newsroom culture and has taught in the disciplines of Sociology, Gender Studies, Journalism and Media Studies. Her work has appeared in international and national scholarly journals. Her first book, The Gendered Newsroom, (2009, Hampton Press) received international recognition from some of the world’s most respected scholars in the fields of journalism and feminist media studies.
Louise has worked as a print journalist for 23 years, and in 2013 co-founded the hyperlocal online magazine, Bluestone Magazine. Louise left Deakin University in 2014.