Jenna Price

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Jenna Price is an Australian journalist and academic. As of 2021, she is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and a columnist at The Sydney Morning Herald .^[1] She is one of the founders of the online feminist movement, Destroy The Joint.

Price graduated with a BA in communications from the NSW Institute of Technology (now University of Technology, Sydney – UTS) in 1981.^[2] She also holds an MA from UTS (2013), where she worked as lecturer for some years.^[3] She received a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2019. Her thesis, "Destroying the joint: A case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women", is a history and assessment of the online feminist movement, Destroy The Joint, which she co-founded in 2012.^[4][5]

While a student in the early 1980s, she worked as editorial assistant for Listening Post, the magazine published by volunteer radio station 2SER-FM.^[6]

She joined The Sydney Morning Herald in February 1982.^[7] In 1984 she worked on the first edition of The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide, edited by Leo Schofield and David Dale.^[8] In the mid-1990s, Price was writing on women's^[9] and human rights issues^[10] for The Canberra Times.

Price was awarded an Edna Ryan Award for Media/Communication in 2012.^[11]

She wrote the "2019 Women for Media Report: 'You can't be what you can't see'" for Women's Leadership Institute Australia.^[12]

• Women, Social Media and Changing Things: Jenna Price in conversation with Colleen Egan
• Jenna Price on Twitter