Home About APJC Programs Board Support Staff Contact Links	Board Members of the establishing board are: Jack Waterford Editor-at- Large, The Canberra Times, Canberra Jack Waterford AM, Editor-at-Large of the Canberra Times is a distinguished Australian journalist and commentator. He graduated law at the Australian National University and began his journalism career as a cadet with the Canberra Times in 1972, covering a broad range of rounds before being appointed deputy editor in 1987, editor in 1995 and editor-in-chief in 2001. Waterford is known for his investigative journalism using Freedom of Information legislation, his work and advocacy on indigenous health issues and on the national trachoma and eye health program. He has delivered papers at many public forums and written book chapters on areas as diverse as press freedom, the High Court of Australia, public administration and the Petrov affair. He received the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year award in 1985 and was appointed to a Jefferson Fellowship at the East-West Center in 1987. He was named a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2007 Australia Day Honours, "for service to journalism, particularly as a commentator on national politics, the law, to raising debate on ethical issues and public sector accountability, and to the community in the area of Indigenous affairs". In March 2007, Waterford was named Canberra Citizen of the Year. Presenting the award, Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Chief Minister Jon Stanhope said Waterford was a champion of many causes and a leading figure in his trade.  John Henningham Director, Jschool: Journalism Education and Training, Brisbane 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, Australia. He was previously head of the Department of Journalism at Queensland University. Professor 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 has also been a strong advocate of journalism education, arguing the case for its distinct purpose and the need to separate it from other forms of communication. The first person in Australia to receive a PhD in journalism, John Henningham was also the first Australian to be appointed to a Chair of Journalism (Professor of Journalism), both at the University of Queensland. Professor 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 joined the staff of Queensland University in 1978 and was responsible for the university establishing the Department of Journalism in 1991. Henningham 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, as well as visiting professor of journalism at Deakin University, Victoria. He is adjunct professor at University of the Sunshine Coast and Queensland University of Technology. John Wallace Program director and public officer, APJC, Melbourne John Wallace has managed and delivered programs for journalists in the Asia Pacific region over the past 25 years, including post-conflict work in East Timor, videoconference discussions for editors in tsunami-affected countries, professional dialogue initiatives in China and Indonesia, and workshops on journalism leadership and reporting economics, politics. He started in journalism with the Australian Broadcasting Commission and later worked for The Age, The (Melbourne) Herald, and Nation Review, where he was news editor. He has had postings in Stockholm with Reuters and in Jakarta as editorial training consultant with The Jakarta Post. He was media adviser to Australia’s first inquiry into newspaper ownership in 1981. He has degrees from the University of Melbourne in political science and journalism. Before joining the APJC, he was associate professor in journalism at the University of Queensland and director of the Centre for International Journalism. Previously, he headed the Journalism program at RMIT in Melbourne. He is a past president of the Journalism Education Association (South Pacific).