Lecturer

John Martinkus joined the Journalism, Media and Communications staff in January 2009.

Since 1995 John has worked covering conflicts in East Timor, Indonesia, Iraq, Afghanistan and several other countries. He has written three non-fiction books and worked predominantly outside of Australia in wire service, newspaper and magazine journalism. For the last four years he has been working for SBS Dateline, filming and reporting stories for that program, mostly in Iraq and Afghanistan, where conditions are very difficult for journalists. John has said: “I’m hoping to be able to pass on some of what I have learned working across these different mediums and in these environments and to offer some practical instruction on how to put together a story in video as well as in print.”

Units

• HEJ203 - Television Journalism
  
• HEJ333 - Convergent Journalism
  
• HEJ603 - Convergence in Journalism, Media and Communications