Alan Knight, BA Qld, PhD Wollongong is a senior academic, an experienced journalist, the Australian representative and Board member of the Asia Media Information Research Centre and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Asia Studies at Hong Kong University.  His career as a reporter, researcher and academic spans nearly forty years.  Before becoming an academic, Alan was a reporter, a ministerial public relations staffer, and an Executive Producer responsible for budgeted program production, casual employees and staff supervision.

He began his journalism career in 1973 as Brisbane correspondent for the Nation Review, before working for Queensland Newspapers, AAP, the ABC and Radio Television Hong Kong. He is the current editor of the online journal, eJournalist.  In 1990 Alan became an academic at Sydney's University of Technology and was subsequently appointed Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism. In 2000 he commenced working at CQUniversity Rockhampton, where he was twice elected as the President of Academic Board. He was also a member of the University's Council and the Senior Executive from 2000 to 2005. In 2006, he was appointed Discipline Leader in Journalism Media and Communication at the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT.  Alan was appointed as an Emeritus Professor of CQUniversity in 2007, the same year he was elected national spokesperson for Friends of the ABC.  Alan's research has been internationally recognised through his election as Australian representative and Board member of the Asian Media Information Research Centre and his re-appointment as an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Asia Studies at Hong Kong University. The Australian Research Council recognised him as an "eminent researcher" in 2009 and he was appointed to the national panel reviewing Humanities research as part of Excellence in Research Australia.  In 2009, Alan was appointed as an external examiner in Journalism courses run by University Tunku Abdul Rahman in Malaysia.