Dr Alan Knight is appointed Emeritus Professor at the recent CQU Brisbane and Gold Coast graduation ceremony.Dr Alan Knight was recently honoured with appointment as an Emeritus Professor of CQU at a graduation ceremony for CQU Brisbane and Gold Coast.

The appointment is recognition that Dr Knight earned personal, professional, and community distinction during his time at CQU, and contributed to the reputation of the University within the higher education sector and the community at large.

The Professor of Journalism and Media Studies this year took up a position with Queensland University of Technology after an 8-year career at CQU.

During his time at CQU he told Radio National that 'southern cappucinocrats can be mugs', he released a book about the handover of Hong Kong, he fought internal battles about quality and made a name for eJournalism.

Dr Knight is a former  journalist and producer, who specialises in international news, free speech issues and new media.

Dr Knight began his journalism career in 1973 as Brisbane correspondent for the Nation Review. He was a founding director of one of Australia's first community radio stations, 4 Triple Zed FM. During the seventies and early eighties, he worked in Sydney as an industrial reporter, covering the labour movement for Australian Associated Press and the ABC. He is a former Current Affairs Executive Producer for Triple Jay-FM and a former National Producer of the Country Hour.

He is a journalism educator with a specialist interest in Foreign Correspondence and Asian Studies who has worked as a reporter and editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Television Hong Kong and other media outlets.  He has a long and distinguished record in contributing to appropriate professional organisations including the Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (Singapore), the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (Sydney) and the Journalism Education Association (Awards).

In 1990 he joined the academic staff of the University of Technology, Sydney, where the Vice-Chancellor appointed him Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism in 1992. 

During his tenure at CQU, Dr Knight was Head of School for the School of Contemporary Communication in 1998, Professor in Journalism and Media Studies from 1998-2005 and twice elected as the President of Academic Board from 2000 to 2005.  He was an active member of CQU's Council and Senior Executive from 2000 to 2005.

Meanwhile, the Campus Review reports that, Dr Knight has been appointed as the national spokesperson for the Friends of ABC. He was voted unanimously to the position at the Friends of the ABC National Conference this month.