She is the former editor of Land Rights Queensland and was the Brisbane correspondent for the national Indigenous newspaper, The Koori Mail, for five years. Her research focuses on alternative and community media forms, and media policy. She currently leads the Media, Journalism & the Public Sphere research program at the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research. Her most recent book is Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Independent Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).