Siobhan A McHugh

Roles:
Reviewer

Editorial groups:
International Editorial Board

Affiliation:
Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Wollongong

Country:
Australia

Biography

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SIOBHAN MCHUGH is a seminal podcast studies academic and founder of RadioDoc Review, the first journal of criticism of audio features, documentaries and podcasts. A 'pracademic', she is also an accomplished oral historian, critic, award-winning author and audio producer, whose documentary podcasts have won seven gold awards at New York Festivals. Her co-produced narrative podcast, The Greatest Menace, about a ‘gay prison’ experiment, was described as ‘Australia’s S-Town’ and has won 17 awards. Her book, The Power of Podcasting: telling stories through sound (Columbia Univeristy Press 2022), unpacks the art of narrative podcasts. It is set as a teaching text in many universities and is accessible to the general reader - as evidenced by its being mentioned on the Oprah Winfrey Network (2024). Siobhan's scholarly work is published in Oxford and Routledge anthologies and her article, How Podcasting is Changing the Audio Storytelling Genre (2016), has been the most-cited article in the Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Radio Media, for years. She is Associate Professor (honorary) of Journalism, University of Wollongong, Australia and Research Fellow with Macquarie University, Sydney. 

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