American journalist Bill Grueskin has been appointed as the first Alan Moorehead Journalist-in-Residence at the Judith Neilson Institute (JNI), in Sydney.
He will begin his tenure on Monday and will be in Australia for the next six weeks, working at the JNI headquarters in Chippendale.
Grueskin will be undertaking research into the impact of the News Media Bargaining Code one year on from implementation.
He will also engage with journalists and educators to share the latest training and development programmes being deployed at Columbia, and learn about Australian techniques that can be brought back to the US.
Grueskin is a professor of professional practice at Columbia University‘s graduate school of journalism in New York.
He has previously held senior editorial roles including: executive editor at Bloomberg, where he oversaw the efforts to train the global news staff on maximising the benefits of digital platforms.
Grueskin was also deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and managing editor of WSJ.com, city editor of The Miami Herald; and founding editor of a newspaper on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation.
He also holds degrees in Classics from Stanford University, and international economics and US foreign policy from Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies.
JNI’s Journalist-in-Residence program gives working journalists, as well as those involved in the production of news and factual content, an opportunity to undertake a deeper piece of work at the Institute.
The program is split into two streams, one for local journalists and news producers, named after Catherine Martin, who won the inaugural Gold Walkley in 1978 during a distinguished career, including nearly 30 years at the West Australian.
The international stream is named after writer, war correspondent and historian Alan Moorehead.
Attaching Moorehead’s name to this program speaks to the Institute’s ambition to engage with journalists around the world.