Bridget Griffen-FoleyFAHA (born 27 June 1970) is a professor in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature,
Macquarie University,
New South Wales. She is author, co-author or editor of a large number of reference works and published articles on a wide range of topics relating to the histories of Australian newspapers, radio, and television outlets.
Career
Griffen-Foley gained her BA in Modern History and English from Macquarie University in 1991, with Honours in 1992. She gained her PhD in Modern History at Macquarie in 1996, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the
University of Sydney. She was appointed professor of Media Studies at Macquarie in 2013 and founder of the Centre for Media History in 2007, serving as its director 2007–2016.[1]
Publications
Books
Griffen-Foley, B. (1999) The House of Packer: The Making of a Media Empire, Allen & Unwin
Griffen-Foley, B. (2000, 2014) Sir Frank Packer: a Biography, HarperCollins
Griffen-Foley, B. (2003) Party Games: Australian Politicians and the Media from War to Dismissal, Text Publishing
Griffen-Foley, B. (2009) Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio, UNSW Press
Griffen-Foley, B. (ed.) (2014) A Companion to the Australian Media, Australian Scholarly Publishing
Griffen-Foley, B. (2020) Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives[2]
Griffen-Foley has been involved with the
Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) since 2000, firstly with its NSW Working Party, and more recently joining the Editorial Board in 2017.[4] As of February 2023[update], she had written 16 biographies for the ADB. Mainly of journalists and media proprietors, subjects include
Sir Frank Packer and
Sir Warwick Fairfax.[5]
Awards and recognition
Awarded the Medal for Modern History by Macquarie University in 1992 while studying for her PhD
Shortlisted, Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature, 2010 for Changing Stations : The Story of Australian Commercial Radio[6]