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Don’t take it personally: Grappling with a parent’s chronic illness

Audio report by Prealene Khera

Projects

Through the lens, a treasured archive of vanishing history

Audio report by Mariah Papadopoulos

Society

Sound the alarm: Women losing sleep over gender inequality

Words by Fia Walsh

Health
Image: Shutterstock

Behind the mask, the toll on doctors of a not-so-caring profession

Words by Greg Hall

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Help wanted: Not enough of it getting to those in dementia-driven decline

Story by Fia Walsh

Society
One Good Street

Neighbourhood watch: Loveliness in the time of coronavirus

Words by Benjamin Silvester

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Emergency edition The Little Red Podcast: High noon for Ji Xinping

Podcast by Louisa Lim and Graeme Smith

Society
Photo: Unsplash

Opinion: The coronavirus is not ‘Chinese’ – don’t racialise this threat

Words by Wing Kuang

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Image: Unsplash/Roman Bodnarchuk

Gay, homeless, alone, and just 16. What would you do to survive?

Words by Connor Webster

Health
Photo: Stephen Doggett (NSW Health Pathology)

Lyme disease in Australia? One tiny tick, one huge controversy

Words by Anthony Marsico

Health
Photo: Dan Meyers/Unsplash

Recognising stigma, in all its guises, critical to tackling suicide crisis

Words by Jakeb Fair

Society

Abortion hits the headlines, and the political becomes painfully personal

Words by Lucy Williams

Health
Picture: Jo Chandler

Plagued: A too personal account of the disease crisis on our doorstep

Story by Jo Chandler

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Photo: Velizar Ivanov/Unsplash

It was love at first swipe. And then, the pathology came back …

Words by Jona Jaupi

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3010: Researcher makes lung cancer breakthrough

Video by Benjamin Silvester

and Jakeb Fair

Health

Stigma in medical community slowing hepatitis C eradication

Words by Charlotte Grieve

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About The Citizen

THE CITIZEN is a publication of the Centre for Advancing Journalism. It has several aims. Foremost, it is a teaching tool that showcases the work of the students in the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism and Master of International Journalism programs, giving them real-world experience in working for publication and to deadline. Find out more →

  • Editor: Jo Chandler
  • Reporter: Ashleigh
  • Audio editor: Louisa Lim
  • Video & Photo editor: Liam Cochrane
  • Data editor: Craig Butt
  • Editor-In-Chief: Andrea Carson
  • Business editor: Lucy Smy
Winner — BEST PUBLICATION 2024 Journalism Education Research and Training Association Ossie Awards Winner — BEST PUBLICATION 2016 Ossie Awards

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