Alan Knight

Professor Alan Knight is a journalism educator with a specialist interest in Foreign Correspondence and Asian Studies. The foundation Chair of Journalism and Media Studies at Central Queensland University, Dr Knight is an electronic media journalist who has worked as a reporter and editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Television Hong Kong and other media outlets. A former Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, he is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Asian Studies at Hong Kong University. He is co-author of Reporting Hong Kong: the foreign press and the handover (Curzon Press: London, 1999).

Alan Knight began his journalism career as Brisbane correspondent for the Nation Review. He was a founding director of one of Australia's first community radio stations, 4 ZZZ FM. During the seventies and early eighties, he worked in Sydney as a industrial reporter, covering the labour movement for Australian Associated Press and the ABC. He is a former Current Affairs Executive Producer for JJJ-FM and a former National Producer of the Country Hour.