Julie Posetti is an award-winning former Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) news and current affairs journalist, whose career highlights include a posting to the Canberra Press Gallery as a national political correspondent. Her diverse journalistic experience includes radio and television reporting, presenting and producing with a strong emphasis on social affairs coverage. In 1996 she was named the winner of the Australian Human Rights Award for Radio for her coverage of racism in federal politics and issues affecting indigenous and marginalised Australians. She is now lecturing in broadcast journalism at the University of Canberra where she won the 2005 Vice Chancellor's Distinction Award for Learning and Teaching. In 2007 she was the recipient of a national tertiary teaching award (Carrick Citation) for excellence in journalism education. Her research interests include political journalism, the ABC and multicultural reporting. She is currently researching a PhD on the reporting of Muslim women in TV news and she is the University of Canberra's principal researcher on the nationally funded,cross-institutional research project, Reporting Diversity.