Dr. Andrea Jean Baker is an award-winning, journalism, media and communications scholar, educator, public speaker and working journalist. Her scholarship reflects a strong interdisciplinary commitment to feminism, gender, media (legacy, digital/AI and social)  through research on violence against women, feminist journalism ethics, #MeToo media and music cultures across the globe.

Cited by UNESCO, UN Women, and UNICEF, her scholarship has shaped international policy debates and informed newsroom practice, advocacy initiatives, and media training programs for Our Watch.

To date, Dr. Baker has published 5 books: 3 books (solo-authored) and 2 (co-edited and co-authored) book collections, and many peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters, and 3 government/industry reports. 

In 2026, Dr. Baker's 6 chapters about #MeToo media/feminist ethics in the digital/AI era will be published in 4 international handbooks: 

• Routledge Companion to Global Journalism and Media at the Border. 
• De Gruyter Handbook of Journalism and Social Change
• Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Social Media Impact
• Environment of Power: Vibrant Terrain and Landscapes of Resistance (Manchester University Press)

International appointments: 

1. 2025-2027: Co-Research Chair, Commission on the Status of Women for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
2. 2025-2026: Public Engagement Committee Member, International Communication Association’s Journalism Studies Division.

Leadership: Across academia, the media and health industries and government. In 2025, completed a course in Human Centred AI at Stanford University (USA) and participated in Monash's Faculty of Arts' Associate Dean Leadership Program. Dr Baker has served as Acting Head of Journalism, as well as Undergraduate, Honours, PhD/MA and Research Coordinator.

Research topics include:

• Journalism Studies (AI; Safety of journalists; Global South/Global North media) 
• Digital media (Net-radio)  
• Feminist Journalism Studies (#MeToo; Violence against women) 
• Arts Journalism (Film cultures, Music media, Music cities)  

Postgraduate supervisions: Supervised and/or examined 19 postgraduate theses (PhDs and Masters) and 16 Honours research projects. Welcomes interest from prospective Australian and international PhD and Masters students in the above areas. 

Dr. Baker's PhD in Digital Communications (Monash University), the first comparative study of net-radio in global journalism education (Australia and the U.S.), established my foundations for a career defined by conceptual innovation, methodological breadth, and boundary-crossing inquiry.

Grants: Highly competitive fellowships at the City University of New York, the University of Texas at Austin, and Freie Universität Berlin, and research funding (governments, NGOs, the media industry, and universities).

Industry publications: 

• Media reporting on violence against women from an intersectional lens (2024, Our Watch). 
• Examining sexual violence in the music city of Greater Melbourne (2023, Commissioned by City of Melbourne and Victroan State Government).  
• Melbourne Music Strategy 2014-17 (2018, City of Melbourne).

Academic Research in leading global presses: Oxford University Press; Manchester University Press; Bloomsbury Academic; Palgrave/Springer, Routledge and Hampton Press. 

Key books include:

• Baker et al. (2023). Violence Against Women in the Global South: Reporting in the #MeToo Era, Palgrave. Nominated for the International Communications Association’s Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award. 
• Baker et al. (2023). Reporting on Sexual Violence in the #MeToo Era, Routledge. 
• Baker (2019). The Great Music City, Palgrave. Recipient of the Best Education Book Award, International Book Festival (U.S.).
• Baker (2014). The Case of Peter Greste (Al Jazeera English) & Notions of Press Freedom. Australian Journalism Monographs. IAMCR2015 and UNESCO Special sessions on safety of journalists. 
• Baker (2012). Virtual Radio Gaga, Hampton Press. Recipient of the International Association of Media and Communications Research Publishing Award.

Education: As an award-winning educator, defined by many firsts in the Australian and global tertiary sector, e.g. 

• Established Monash Journalism's 1st internship program, placing students in local (ABC, SBS, The Age etc) and international (BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, UNESCO Media Unit etc.) media outlets.  
• Co-established Monash Journalism's 1st Online Student newspaper.
• Set up Australia's 1st college net-only radio station, Monash Radio.
• Led the 1st, 4 annual international journalism study tours (London, New York City, Paris, Brussels). Won awards for this teaching innovation.
• Designed the 1st arts journalism curriculum in Australia.
• World Journalism Education Congress research presentation (2025, San Francisco) on AI pedagogy for Journalism Education is embedded into the Monash Education Academy’s AI in Practice professional learning module.
• Pioneered the Australian course for Lifestyle Journalism.
• Embedded intersectional and constructive journalism pedagogy. 
• Supervised students theses which won the Australian Press Council Undergraduate Prize for essays on media ethics..

Known for integrating theory and practice through innovative, industry-engaged pedagogy. Designed and coordinated Journalism Studies and Journalism Practice units across undergraduate, Masters, and Higher Degree Research (HDR) programs. Curriculum leadership has transformed high-enrolment units (150+ students) through experiential learning and research-informed teaching: Foundations of Journalism, Practice of Journalism, Lifestyle Journalism, Photojournalism, and Journalism and Global Change.

Other engagement and Global leadership: 

• Research fellowships: City University of New York; Frieie University Berlin; University of Texas at Austin.

• Led more than 70 international journalism scholars across 2 landmark, edited book collections on #MeToo media, demonstrating a proven capacity to build expansive, interdisciplinary, and equitable global research networks.

• Directed over 20 international journalism scholars in 2 Special Journal Editions: Sexual Violence (Journalism Practice, 2020) and Safety of Journalists (Australian Journalism Review, 2018), shaping global debates on gendered violence and press freedom.

• Editorial Board Member, Journalism Practice (UK), a leading global journal advancing innovative, practice-focused research in journalism.

• Judge, Best Journalism Paper, International Association of Media and Communications Research (IAMCR).

Industry: Worked as a journalist for over 28 years, e.g. internationally award-winning work as Executive Producer of Australia’s National Women radio program, Women on the Line, ABC Radio National, and cultural reporting for The Conversation, and the mainstream press. A film reviewer and, since 2023, have covered the annual Golden Globes Awards, extending my work in celebrity journalism into a broader programme of research and cultural analysis.