Staff profile

Mr Steinar Ellingsen

Lecturer, Honours coordinator

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 212, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BJourn (Hons – La Trobe)

Membership of professional Associations

Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, NTEU.

Area of study

Creative Arts
Creative Writing
Journalism
Media Studies

Brief Profile

Steinar Ellingsen is a Norwegian journalist currently working on a practice-based Ph.D., creating a documentary web series chronicling a ten-week odyssey in Australia. Born in Kongsberg, Norway, Steinar started as a freelance journalist and photographer in 1997, working mainly for regional newspaper Laagendalsposten, covering news, sports and culture, and working casually as Sports editor. In 2007, he was nominated for a Norwegian SKUP award, as part of a reportage team at Laagendalsposten investigating a crisis in the local age care service.

Steinar holds an Honours degree in journalism (La Trobe University, 2007). His Honours thesis, Fighting the Bushfire: Reinventing the East Brunswick Club was written as a series of extended feature articles, which looked at the re-launch of the 200-year-old Melbourne corner pub as a live music venue, in a rapidly changing and post-industrial, suburban environment.

Research interests

Journalism Studies

- Creative non-fiction

- Documentary production

- Journalism and New Media

- Journalism ethics

- Online documentary/webseries

- Social Media

Teaching Units

  • JRN3MMJ - Multimedia Journalism
  • JRN5DJN - Digital Journalism
  • JRN2/3DIJ – Dilemmas in Journalism: Legal and Ethical Issues
  • JRN5LEJ – Law and Ethics in Journalism
  • JRN3/4/5OEP – Online Editing and Publishing
  • JRN5TWJ – The Working Journalist

Recent Publications

  • Ellingsen, S. 2012. "Web series, independent media and emerging online markets: Then and now." In Ibrus, Indrek & Scolari, Carlos (Eds) Crossmmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions. New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang. Pp. 199-216
  • Ellingsen, S. 2011. “The Inland Sea: An Australian Odyssey", paper presented at Screen Futures Summit, Melbourne 9-12 July 2011.

Research projects