Dr Margaret Simons is an award-winning journalist, author, and journalism academic. She is Honorary Principal Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Journalism, part of the University of Melbourne. She was director of the centre from 2012 until 2017, and was a founding director of Australia’s Public Interest Journalism Initiative from 2018 until 2021. She is also a founding director of the hyperlocal journalism startup *PS Media. She holds a Doctorate in Creative Arts from the University of Technology Sydney.
Dr Simons is the author of over 14 books as well as substantial essays. She has published extensively on journalism, the media and politics, including biographies of Kerry Stokes, the new Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, and former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
