Andrea Carson is a Professor of Political Communication in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University. Her latest book is 'Undercover Reporting, Deception, and Betrayal in Journalism’ (with Dr Denis Muller) following on from ‘Investigative Journalism, Democracy and the Digital Age', both published by Routledge. Her research examines investigative journalism, the media's role in a democracy, political communication, and politics and gender. She studies measures to mitigate fake news and is on Facebook’s global fact-checking advisory board. With colleagues and Australian Research Council funding, Andrea is studying media and political (mis) trust in Australia. She also holds an ARC Linkage award with the Victorian Local Governance Association to research women’s political participation. Andrea has a PhD in Political Science and an MA in International Politics, both from the University of Melbourne. She has taught courses on political communication, news media and politics and campaigns and elections at La Trobe and The University of Melbourne. She is a proud WILA fellow and a past academic coordinator of Pathways to Politics, teaching women the skills for public office with UOM’s Melbourne School of Government. She is a trained print journalist (The Age) and radio (ABC Melbourne, RRR) and TV producer (ABC 7.30). Read more here: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/alcarson