http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/kelly-simpson/ Kelly likes the beach, punk rock and reading, so it was never going to work out between her and her hometown of Cooma. Escaping to Sydney the day after she turned 18, Kelly completed a Communications degree at UTS where she is now studying for a Masters in Journalism. Kelly once had a radio show which consisted of she and a friend rocking out to Eskimo Joe before they were cool. She is an unapologetic follower of rugby league and, if you hold the door open for her, she will say thank you. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-death-throes-of-student-media/ In 1995, La Trobe University student publication Rabelais ran a feature entitled The Art of Shoplifting, which highlighted student poverty a decade before it became an election platform. Now it and student media publications around Australia are facing relative poverty themselves. Since Voluntary Student Unionism was introduced by the then Liberal Australian Government in mid-2006, Australian student media have been starved of funds. VSU was introduced with the aim of removing the obligation for tertiary students to pay for and be members of student unions. The Punch interviewed representatives from three student publications and the response was the same: VSU has curtailed the potential of student media to add to a vibrant university culture. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Kelly Simpson) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-death-throes-of-student-media/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-death-throes-of-student-media/#item1302 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:40:13 +0000 Kelly Simpson | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/degrees-of-uncertainty-for-students-of-journalism/ What will journalism look like in twenty years? Will newspapers still exist? Punch research journalist Kelly Simpson and four of her fellow students from the University of Technology Sydney gaze into the crystal ball… Kelly Simpson – Postgraduate journalism student, UTS: How did you hear that Michael Jackson had died? That we’d lost the Ashes? Print is dead, I’ve been assured. I’ve missed the glory days. There’ll be no ink smudged copy for me, no physical front page, no morning AND evening editions of the newspapers. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Kelly Simpson) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/degrees-of-uncertainty-for-students-of-journalism/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/degrees-of-uncertainty-for-students-of-journalism/#item1063 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:45:21 +0000 Kelly Simpson | Author bios | The Punch