{"id":4376,"date":"2015-06-02T10:50:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T00:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2017-06-21T18:53:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T09:23:41","slug":"new-director-for-media-and-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2015\/06\/02\/new-director-for-media-and-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"New Director for Media and Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/06\/Karen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4377\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/06\/Karen-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Karen\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Former SBS bureau chief for Adelaide, Karen Ashford, has become Flinders University\u2019s new Director of Media and Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ashford worked in government media and communications roles, as well as a communications consultant, before spending 21 years at SBS. She has extensive experience in radio, television and online as an award-winning reporter, camerawoman and producer in news and current affairs, with a strong affinity for indigenous affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting time for Flinders University, with new Vice-Chancellor Professor Colin Stirling at the helm, a new venture -driven site a Tonsley, a new student hub and plaza development transforming the heart of the Flinders campus, and Flinders\u2019 50th anniversary celebrations less than a year away,\u201d Ms Ashford said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s also an exciting time personally, as I embark on this new journey with the Flinders Media and Communications team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m keen to ensure that Flinders&#8217; wealth of academic and research talent is readily accessible, responsive to media needs, and well placed to present their engaging, inspiring and often life-changing research in a media savvy manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karen&#8217;s office number is 8201 2092 and her mobile is 0427 398 713.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former SBS bureau chief for Adelaide, Karen Ashford, has become Flinders University\u2019s new Director of Media and Communications. Ms Ashford worked in government media and communications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}