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For young, COVID is what happens when you’re busy making other plans

Words by Alyssa Herr

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What are you, chicken? The crushing burden of ornithophobia

Audio report by Xiao Zhu

Projects

From court to Centrelink: Lawyer rides the coronavirus rollercoaster

Words by Anthony Marsico

Society
Photo: Keyu Guo

Step inside the locked-down lives of Melbourne’s international students

Photography by Jirong Xu Jiayi Meng Ruoyu Zhou Pan Li Jingyi Lai Yongrong Li Jiadong Wu Keyu Guo

Society
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Lockdown lust: How coronavirus is changing sex lives and sex drives

Words by Connor Webster

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‘Upset and helpless’: A casualty of cyberbullying epidemic speaks out

Audio report by Wanzhi Deng

Society

Zoom and gloom: The loneliness of the long distance funeral

Words by Anthony Marsico

Society
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Exclusive! Scoop! First with the news! Journalism has a plagiarism problem

Words by Benjamin Silvester

Society

Sound the alarm: Women losing sleep over gender inequality

Words by Fia Walsh

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Citizen editor and reporter awarded 2020 Walkey reporting grants

Society
Photo: Will Povey

Waiting on tables? Some cafes are in no hurry to resume normal service

Words and pictures by Will C. Povey

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State logging of endangered species habitats illegal, court rules

Words by Else Kennedy

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Advocates signal alarm at report exonerating police over botched raid

Words by Jess Malcolm

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Photo: Wing Kuang

Through the window: A student contemplates the world in isolation

Words by Wing Kuang

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Extreme regrets: The long walk back from the badlands of the far right

Words by Benjamin Silvester

Society

Generation Lockdown: ‘Three of my four housemates have lost their jobs’

Words by Jordyn Beazley

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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: Petra Stock
  • Audio & Video editor: Louisa Lim
  • Data editor: Craig Butt
  • Editor-In-Chief: Andrew Dodd
  • Business editor: Lucy Smy
Winner — BEST PUBLICATION 2016 Ossie Awards

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