Kieran McGuinness

Kieran McGuinness is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the News & Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra. His recent research focuses on mixed method approaches to news consumption, misinformation, journalistic role performance, defence journalism and discourses of risk, problematisation and threat in news media. He is a co-author of the annual Digital News Report Australia, an ongoing study of news consumption done in collaboration with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. As a Postdoctoral Fellow Kieran assists with data analysis and report writing with a special focus on combining quantitative and qualitative approaches to research.