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City campus, Building 3, Room 503, 755 Harris St, Ultimo
PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia
Tel +61 2 9514 2488 | Fax +61 2 9514 1890
Email: acij@uts.edu.au | http://www.acij.uts.edu.au
PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007
Cricos Provider No: 00099F
ABN: 772 576 869 61
The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism
Mission
The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism supports independent journalism as a
foundation stone for social and political democracy. Journalism is a public service, and journalists
are accountable to the public for the quality of their professional practice. Journalism has a social
responsibility to be independent of vested interests, critical in its inquiry and of the highest
standard to earn its place as an independent force in public life. The journalists’ task is to
accurately inform the public, in detail, and without fear or favour, about the way in which their
society actually works. This is the journalism of democracy.
The aim of the Centre is to foster the promotion of journalism of the highest quality. The Centre will
extend public access to quality journalism via publications in all media, including online media and
public forums, on issues that are of interest and importance to the public. The Centre will
encourage the participation of students in its activities to support their development as producers
of high quality journalism. ACIJ will seek involvement in its activities from throughout the university
community.
The Centre will be engaged in the production of journalism, research into journalistic practice and
professional development activities for journalists and journalism students. The Centre will
concentrate on the production of investigative journalism, defined as broadly as possible, that
involves comprehensive research, deals with subjects that are in the public interest, that is
accurate and independent of vested interest.
The Centre will engage reporters and associates who are interested in producing journalism that
reveals the complex, multi-faceted nature of Australian society, and its position as a Pacific Rim
nation, in an independent and critical fashion. The Centre will invite esteemed journalists to take
up research positions or other attachments to the Centre, provide opportunities for Australian and
international journalists and journalism students to become affiliates, and support professional
development activities that enrich the expertise of Australian journalists.
The Centre will undertake research into journalistic practice. The research program will be broad
ranging. It will encourage and explore the application of the methodologies, skills and techniques
of the arts, humanities and social sciences to journalism and the work of journalists. This
accumulating body of research will help to foster the production of journalism of the highest
standard, and inform the teaching of journalism. Through publications, conferences and seminars it
will provide new opportunities for journalists, academics and students, those involved in public life
and the public to reflect on the role and nature of the work of journalists and the media, and its
impact on the community.
In order to facilitate the production of academic research into journalistic practice, the Centre will
apply for funding from appropriate granting bodies. It will also answer calls to tender for research
projects commissioned by government agencies or private companies, but only where those
research projects do not conflict with the Centre’s mission.
City campus, Building 3, Room 503, 755 Harris St, Ultimo
PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia
Tel +61 2 9514 2488 | Fax +61 2 9514 1890
Email: acij@uts.edu.au | http://www.acij.uts.edu.au