John Henningham

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John Henningham is an Australian journalist and journalism educator. He is founder and director of the journalism college Jschool: Journalism Education & Training based in Brisbane, capital of the state of Queensland. He was previously head of the Department of Journalism at Queensland University. Henningham has written and edited books, journals, chapters and articles on journalism and the news media, including Looking at Television News, Issues in Australian Journalism, and Institutions in Australian Society, and has been a media commentator in the press and on radio. His best-known research is based on national surveys of journalists in Australia, as well as comparative studies of overseas journalists. He was the first person in Australia to receive a PhD in journalism and to be appointed Professor of Journalism, both at the University of Queensland.

Henningham graduated from the University of Sydney and worked as a journalist with the Daily Mirror, The Sun and The Australian as well as the ABC before entering journalism education. He was founding editor of Australian Studies in Journalism and Australian Journalism Monographs and has also edited Australian Journalism Review, published by the Journalism Education Association. He has been a visiting fellow and researcher at the East-West Center, the Reuter Foundation at Green College, Oxford University, and the London College of Printing, visiting professor of journalism at Deakin University. He is adjunct professor at University of the Sunshine Coast and Queensland University of Technology, and a director of the Asia Pacific Journalism Centre.