Verica Rupar

Verica Rupar (born 17 March 1957) is a Serbian–New Zealand journalist and academic, and is professor of journalism at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Academic career Rupar earned an honours degree in political science at the University of Belgrade in Serbia. She worked as a political reporter and foreign correspondent for Politika covering Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia. Seeking greater stability, she moved to New Zealand, and in 2007 she completed a PhD titled Investigating the Journalistic Field:The Influence of Objectivity as a Journalistic Norm on the Public Debate on Genetic Engineering in New Zealand at the University of Waikato. Rupar then joined the faculty at AUT, rising to full professor in 2021.

Rupar's research is in the area of journalism studies. She says, "What motivates me now is the idea of public good, and the notion of public interest." In 2021 she edited the book Journalism and Meaning-making – Reading the Newspaper (Hampton Press), a collection of essays about "how journalism affects our public life".

Rupar is a consultant for the London-based Media Diversity Institute.

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