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Siobhán McHugh

Siobhán McHugh is an Irish-Australian author, podcast producer and critic, oral historian, audio documentary-maker and journalism academic.[1] In 2013 she founded RadioDoc Review,[2] the first journal of critical analysis of crafted audio storytelling podcasts and features, for which she received an academic research award.[3] She is Associate Professor of Journalism (honorary) at the University of Wollongong (UOW).[4] and Associate Professor of Media and Communications (honorary) at the University of Sydney. Her latest book, The Power of Podcasting: telling stories through sound, was published by NewSouth Books in February 2022. A US edition with Columbia University Press is due October 2022.

Biography edit

McHugh was born in Dublin, the second of six children, and graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Science. She was appointed a radio producer at RTE (Raidió Teilifís Éireann), the Irish state broadcaster, in 1981.[5] In 1985, she moved to Australia, to work at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)'s Radio National (then 3AR) in Melbourne. Sydney-based from 1986, she built a career as a writer of social histories, an oral historian and a maker of radio documentaries. Over this time she won prestigious national and international awards, including the New South Wales State Literary Award for Non-Fiction for The Snowy: The People Behind the Power, a history of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, the birthplace of Australian multiculturalism.[6]

In 2006, McHugh was awarded a scholarship to undertake a Doctorate of Creative Arts at UOW. Her practice-based research, based on 50 oral histories, examined sectarianism between Catholics (mostly of Irish background) and Protestants (mostly Anglo and Scottish) in pre-multicultural Australia. The resulting radio documentary Marrying Out (ABC 2009)[7] won a gold award at the New York Radio Festival; the accompanying dissertation,[8] which examined how oral history and radio production studies could mutually inform each other, won a special commendation from the noted Italian oral historian, Alessandro Portelli.[9]

In 2013, McHugh founded RadioDoc Review,[2] a journal that brought together top international audio producers and scholars to select and assess crafted audio storytelling works, thereby interpreting and establishing a canon of the form.[10] The aesthetics and impact of podcasting has since been the focus of her academic research,[11] teaching and production.[11]

Literary career edit

McHugh's first book The Snowy – The People Behind the Power was published by William Heinemann Australia in 1989 on the 40th anniversary of the commencement of the Snowy Scheme. A second edition was published by Harper Collins in 1995 and a third, updated edition, The Snowy – A History,[12] with extensive foreword and afterword, was published by New South Books in 2019, to mark the 70th anniversary of this nation-building project.[12]

McHugh's second book was Minefields and Miniskirts: Australian women and the Vietnam war (Doubleday 1993).[13] It recounted the largely untold stories of women who had been in Vietnam during the war, as nurses, journalists, entertainers and more; and documented experiences of the wives of servicemen who had returned damaged, mentally or physically; and women who had been active in the anti-war movement. It was shortlisted for a NSW Women and the Media award. A second edition was published by Lothian in 2005. The book was adapted for the stage by Terence O'Connell[14] and the musical play, Minefields and Miniskirts (Currency Press 2004), debuted at Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne in 2004, starring Tracy Mann, Debra Byrne, Robin Arthur, Tracy Bartram and Wendy Stapleton. It toured Australia and has been staged numerous times since.[15]

McHugh's third book, Cottoning On – Stories of Australian Cotton-growing (Hale and Iremonger 1996), investigated the modern Australian cotton industry.[16] It shed light on the historical allocations of water licences that would later become a contentious issue in management of the Murray-Darling Basin and examined the industry's use of pesticides via largely unregulated aerial spraying practices. The eminent environmental scientist, Professor Richard Kingsford, commended it as a work "of outstanding importance in the management of Australian rivers."[17] Cottoning On was a finalist in the inaugural NSW Premier's History Awards.

McHugh's fourth book, Shelter From the Storm: Bryan Brown, Samoan Chieftains and the little matter of a roof over our head (Allen and Unwin 1999), portrayed the lives of diverse people living in social housing.[16] Photos are by the digital artist Mayu Kanamori. Other, commissioned works include Nick Scali – My Story (Jayenne Press 2003), which chronicles the life story of the Italian multi-millionaire and furniture retailer,[18] and Spirit of Australian Dairy: Portraits and Lifestyles, oral histories of Australian dairy farmers, illustrated by popular photographer Ken Duncan (Dairy Australia 2008).

McHugh's fifth book was a fictional account of the Snowy Scheme through the eyes of a young girl, Eva Fischer, who grows up in the township of Cabramurra.[19] First published as My Story - Snowy: The Diary of Eva Fischer (Scholastic 2003), it had three more editions, most recently as Snowy (Scholastic 2019). It was selected for the NSW Premier's Reading List for children aged c. 11–12 years.

McHugh has also published a short memoir, "Power Cuts", in Wee Girls: Women writing from an Irish perspective (Spinifex 1996);[20] a chapter on pesticides and the cotton industry, "Cotton" in Asimov's Elephant (ABC Books, 2003);[21] and a chapter in an anthology about the Stolen Generations, "The Carers", in Many Voices: reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation (National Library of Australia, 2002).[22]

In recent years, McHugh has written widely on long-form audio storytelling, oral history and podcasting, for outlets such as The Conversation.[23] Her academic writings can be found here.[24]

Radio career edit

Over four decades in radio, McHugh has made some 60 audio works, broadcast nationally and internationally, many of which have won or been shortlisted for prestigious awards [see Awards].[25][26] Her radio career began in RTE Radio One's Light Entertainment division, where she produced high-rating live shows presented by Mike Murphy, Morgan O'Sullivan, Myles Dungan and Marian Finucane. She also produced documentaries, notably, with Shay Healy, the 18-part Jacobs award-winning social history of Ireland in the Sixties, Strawberry Fields Forever.[27]

In 1985 McHugh moved to Australia and produced a six-part series, The Irish in Australia, Past and Present (1985) for ABC's 3AR. In 1987, she made a radio documentary series, The Snowy -The People Behind the Power, for 2FC (now Radio National)'s new Social History Unit, featuring workers of 25 nationalities who helped build the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme. McHugh produced many other series for the Talking History and Hindsight slots: on the isolated mining town of Broken Hill, Australian women's experiences in the Vietnam war, the former Indigenous penal colony of Palm Island, the history of tourism in the Whitsundays, Irish orphan girls sent to Australia after the 1840s famine, the 1854 Eureka rebellion that was said to be the birthplace of Australian democracy and more.[25]

She also produced a documentary for ABC's religious slot, Encounter, that tracked Aboriginal leader Patrick Dodson's visit to Ireland (Reconciliation: From Broome to Belfast, 2001),[28] a feature for Radio Eye on Samoan chieftains' cultural influence on a drug-ridden housing project in western Sydney (Estate of Mind, 1999) and a documentary, Beagle Bay: Irish nuns and Stolen Children (2000), that explored personal stories of the Stolen Generations in the lead-up to national marches for reconciliation.[29] Among her other works was a series for Into the Music on the rebirth of Irish music worldwide, The Roaring Tiger, co-hosted and produced with the composer and musician Dr. Thomas Fitzgerald.[30]

McHugh's later works for ABC Radio National, also online as podcasts, include Eat Pray Mourn: Crime and Punishment in Jakarta (2013), an investigation, with Dr. Jacqui Baker, of extrajudicial police killings in Indonesia which won bronze at New York Radio Festivals;[31] and The Conquistador, The Warlpiri and the Dog Whisperer (2018), an exploration, with presenter Margo Neale, of how two Chilean women from opposed political backgrounds ended up running a successful Indigenous art centre in the Australian desert.[32]

Podcasting career edit

McHugh makes, researches and critiques podcasts;[33] she also teaches and promulgates podcasting as a new medium.[34] Among her award-winning storytelling collaborations are The Greatest Menace, a queer history/true crime investigation into a 'gay prison' experiment described by one industry insider as 'Australia's S-Town', co-created by Patrick Abboud and Simon Cunich, and three podcasts made with The Age newsroom in Melbourne, on all of which she was consulting producer, advising on script, structure and storytelling-through-sound.

Phoebe's Fall (2016),[35] an investigation into the bizarre death in a Melbourne garbage chute of a young woman, won gold at New York Radio Festivals and three national awards [See Awards]. Wrong Skin (2018), examined the disappearance of a young couple from a remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia and the collision of culture and power.[36] It also won gold at New York Radio Festivals and three national awards [See Awards]. The Last Voyage of the Pong Su (2019) explores the human stories behind a North Korean drug heist on Victoria's shipwreck coast.[37] It won gold at New York Festivals and was selected among the best investigative journalism podcasts of 2020 by the Global Investigative Journalism Network. McHugh was also consulting producer on Gertie's Law, an innovative podcast[38] by the Supreme Court of Victoria that examines court processes. It won gold at New York Festivals.[39] She later collaborated with Gertie's Law host Greg Muller on the podcast Motherlode, which traced the history of early hacktivism, including the back story to Julian Assange.

McHugh conceived and devised the award-winning podcast Heart of Artness, which she co-hosts with Margo Neale,[40] Head of Indigenous Knowledges at the National Museum of Australia.[41] Heart of Artness features the voices of Indigenous artists and the many non-Indigenous people they associate closely with to produce and market their art. It was produced as a University of Wollongong (UOW) research project funded by the Australian Research Council, in collaboration with art historian Ian McLean.[42][43]

McHugh has written extensively on podcasting, the audio medium, audio storytelling and associated topics such as the affective power of voice.[44][45] Her article, How Podcasting is Changing the Audio Storytelling Genre,[46] discusses early adaptations of radio to podcasting,[47] while her piece for Harvard University's Nieman Storyboard, "Subjectivity, hugs and craft: Podcasting as extreme narrative journalism"[48] positions long-form investigative journalism podcasts within the canon of Literary Journalism.[48] She also published a book chapter, "Memoir For Your Ears: The Podcast Life" (2017).[49] Her article, The Narrative Podcast as Digital Literary Journalism: Conceptualizing S-Town, won the 2021 Hartsock Prize for best Literary Journalism Studies article.

McHugh speaks about podcasting at a wide range of events.[50] She was an annual speaker at the Global Editors Network (GEN) media summit in Europe (2015-2019) and an invited speaker at Melbourne's Wheeler Centre (2014), OzPod (Sydney 2017), the BAD True Crime Festival (2019) and the World Journalism Education Conference (Paris 2019).[51] She was keynote speaker at the International Radio Festival in Iran (2010) and the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)'s General Assembly in Chengdu, China (2017). She has also written articles on podcasting for WAN-IFRA (World Association of Newspapers…) UNESCO, the Sydney Morning Herald and Transom.org and an invited series for Flow Journal at University of Austin.[52] She has conducted podcasting masterclasses and workshops for many groups, including Rutas del Conflicto in Colombia, the Sydney Writers Festival, the Australian War Memorial, the Voice of Vietnam state broadcaster and the ABU.[53] In 2016, she began teaching a curriculum subject in Podcasting for UOW undergraduates and in 2018 launched a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), "The Power of Podcasting for Storytelling", which had over 35,000 enrolments in over 150 countries.[54]

Oral history projects edit

McHugh's oral history collections are archived at the National Library of Australia,[55] the State Library of New South Wales,[56] the City of Sydney Library and Sydney Living Museums. They include interviews about the Snowy Mountains Scheme, Australian women in the Vietnam war, the cotton industry, sectarianism and mixed marriage, a history of Bronte and surf lifesaving, Millers Point in Sydney's historic Rocks area, Green Bans activist Jack Mundey,[57] architect Harry Seidler and the Irish National Association.[58]

McHugh has presented on her oral history projects at Harvard University's Native American Program (2011), Concordia University's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling in Montreal and at national and international oral history conferences.[59] Her scholarly article,[44] 'Oral History on Radio: The Affective Power of Sound', first published in Oral History Review (2012)[44] has been republished in The Oral History Reader (eds. Perks, R & Thomson, A. Routledge 2016), the foremost anthology of international oral history scholarship.[60] It is one of fifteen 'influential' articles selected for the first virtual edition produced by the US Oral History Association to mark their fiftieth anniversary in 2016.[61]

Awards edit

  • Hartsock Prize for best Literary Journalism Studies article of 2021 for The Narrative Podcast as Digital Literary Journalism: Conceptualizing S-Town
  • Winner, gold, New York Radio Festival (2022): The Greatest Menace, Best Social Justice Podcast
  • Winner, bronze, New York Radio Festival (2022): The Greatest Menace, Best Narrative Documentary Podcast
  • Winner, bronze, New York Radio Festival (2022): The Greatest Menace, Best Serialized Podcast
  • Winner, Media Diversity Australia award (2022) The Greatest Menace
  • Winner, gold, New York Radio Festival (2020): The Last Voyage of the Pong Su, with team from The Age
  • Winner, gold, New York Radio Festival (2019): Heart of Artness podcast, Episode 2: 'Art with Heart: A Two-Ways World', with Margo Neale and Ian Mclean[62]
  • Winner, gold, New York Radio Festival 2019: Wrong Skin podcast, with team from The Age[63]
  • Winner, Australian Podcasting Awards (2019), Best Investigative Podcast: Wrong Skin podcast[citation needed]
  • Winner, Australian Podcasting Awards (2019) Podcast of the Year: Wrong Skin podcast[64]
  • Winner, Melbourne Press Club Quills Award (2019): Wrong Skin podcast [citation needed]
  • Winner, gold, New York Radio Festival 2017, Phoebe's Fall podcast, with team from The Age[65]
  • Winner, Melbourne Press Club Quill (2016), Phoebe's Fall podcast [citation needed]
  • Winner, Australian Castaways (2017), Best Documentary: Phoebe's Fall podcast [citation needed]
  • Winner, Kennedys Radio Current Affairs (2017): Phoebe's Fall podcast [citation needed]
  • Anne Dunn Scholar of the Year 2014 (awarded by Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia and Australian and New Zealand Communications Association)[66]
  • Winner, bronze, New York Radio Festival (2013), Eat Pray Mourn: Crime and Punishment in Jakarta – radio documentary, collaboration with J Baker [citation needed]
  • Winner, gold (Religion category) New York Radio Festival (2010): Marrying Out – radio documentary[67]
  • Winner, bronze, (History category) New York Radio Festival (2010), Marrying Out [citation needed]
  • United Nations Media Association (Australia) Peace Prize (2010), Finalist: Marrying Out [citation needed]
  • Winner, NSW Premier's History Fellowship (2005) ($20,000)[68]
  • Winner, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, Best Radio Documentary (2004): Sweet Sorrow, with Kumud Merani – radio documentary [citation needed]
  • NSW Premier's History Award (audio-visual, 2004), Finalist: The Irish at Eureka: rebels or riff-raff? – radio documentary [citation needed]
  • Co-winner, National Trust Heritage Award (2004): Frozen Music, film on architect Harry Seidler [citation needed]
  • Winner, Varuna Writer's Fellowship 2003. [citation needed]
  • United Nations Media Association (Australia) Peace Prize (2002) Finalist: Reconciliation – from Broome to Belfast – radio documentary[citation needed]
  • Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism (2000), Finalist: Beagle Bay: Irish nuns and Stolen Children – radio documentary [citation needed]
  • Australia Council Literary Fellowship 1999 [citation needed]
  • NSW Premier's History Award (1997), Finalist: Cottoning On, book [citation needed]
  • Eureka Science Award, Finalist (1997): Cotton and Chemicals, radio essay [citation needed]
  • Australia Council Literary Fellowship: 1993 [citation needed]
  • Australia Council Literary Fellowship: 1991 [citation needed]
  • Winner, NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction (1990): The Snowy – The People Behind the Power, book[69]
  • Australia Council Literary Fellowship: 1988 [citation needed]
  • Winner, Jacob's Award (1984): Strawberry Fields Forever, radio documentary, RTE, Ireland – with Shay Healy [citation needed]

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External links edit

  • University of Wollongong Scholars - Siobhán McHugh
  • Siobhán McHugh's website
  • The Australian Women's Register McHugh, Siobhan (1957 - )
  • Conversations with Richard Fidler: a one-hour interview about Siobhan's history of the Snowy Scheme (ABC 2019)
  • New York Radio Festivals, Grand Jury POV: Dr Siobhan McHugh

siobhán, mchugh, irish, australian, author, podcast, producer, critic, oral, historian, audio, documentary, maker, journalism, academic, 2013, founded, radiodoc, review, first, journal, critical, analysis, crafted, audio, storytelling, podcasts, features, whic. Siobhan McHugh is an Irish Australian author podcast producer and critic oral historian audio documentary maker and journalism academic 1 In 2013 she founded RadioDoc Review 2 the first journal of critical analysis of crafted audio storytelling podcasts and features for which she received an academic research award 3 She is Associate Professor of Journalism honorary at the University of Wollongong UOW 4 and Associate Professor of Media and Communications honorary at the University of Sydney Her latest book The Power of Podcasting telling stories through sound was published by NewSouth Books in February 2022 A US edition with Columbia University Press is due October 2022 Contents 1 Biography 2 Literary career 3 Radio career 4 Podcasting career 5 Oral history projects 6 Awards 7 References 8 External linksBiography editMcHugh was born in Dublin the second of six children and graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Science She was appointed a radio producer at RTE Raidio Teilifis Eireann the Irish state broadcaster in 1981 5 In 1985 she moved to Australia to work at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC s Radio National then 3AR in Melbourne Sydney based from 1986 she built a career as a writer of social histories an oral historian and a maker of radio documentaries Over this time she won prestigious national and international awards including the New South Wales State Literary Award for Non Fiction for The Snowy The People Behind the Power a history of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme the birthplace of Australian multiculturalism 6 In 2006 McHugh was awarded a scholarship to undertake a Doctorate of Creative Arts at UOW Her practice based research based on 50 oral histories examined sectarianism between Catholics mostly of Irish background and Protestants mostly Anglo and Scottish in pre multicultural Australia The resulting radio documentary Marrying Out ABC 2009 7 won a gold award at the New York Radio Festival the accompanying dissertation 8 which examined how oral history and radio production studies could mutually inform each other won a special commendation from the noted Italian oral historian Alessandro Portelli 9 In 2013 McHugh founded RadioDoc Review 2 a journal that brought together top international audio producers and scholars to select and assess crafted audio storytelling works thereby interpreting and establishing a canon of the form 10 The aesthetics and impact of podcasting has since been the focus of her academic research 11 teaching and production 11 Literary career editMcHugh s first book The Snowy The People Behind the Power was published by William Heinemann Australia in 1989 on the 40th anniversary of the commencement of the Snowy Scheme A second edition was published by Harper Collins in 1995 and a third updated edition The Snowy A History 12 with extensive foreword and afterword was published by New South Books in 2019 to mark the 70th anniversary of this nation building project 12 McHugh s second book was Minefields and Miniskirts Australian women and the Vietnam war Doubleday 1993 13 It recounted the largely untold stories of women who had been in Vietnam during the war as nurses journalists entertainers and more and documented experiences of the wives of servicemen who had returned damaged mentally or physically and women who had been active in the anti war movement It was shortlisted for a NSW Women and the Media award A second edition was published by Lothian in 2005 The book was adapted for the stage by Terence O Connell 14 and the musical play Minefields and Miniskirts Currency Press 2004 debuted at Malthouse Theatre Melbourne in 2004 starring Tracy Mann Debra Byrne Robin Arthur Tracy Bartram and Wendy Stapleton It toured Australia and has been staged numerous times since 15 McHugh s third book Cottoning On Stories of Australian Cotton growing Hale and Iremonger 1996 investigated the modern Australian cotton industry 16 It shed light on the historical allocations of water licences that would later become a contentious issue in management of the Murray Darling Basin and examined the industry s use of pesticides via largely unregulated aerial spraying practices The eminent environmental scientist Professor Richard Kingsford commended it as a work of outstanding importance in the management of Australian rivers 17 Cottoning On was a finalist in the inaugural NSW Premier s History Awards McHugh s fourth book Shelter From the Storm Bryan Brown Samoan Chieftains and the little matter of a roof over our head Allen and Unwin 1999 portrayed the lives of diverse people living in social housing 16 Photos are by the digital artist Mayu Kanamori Other commissioned works include Nick Scali My Story Jayenne Press 2003 which chronicles the life story of the Italian multi millionaire and furniture retailer 18 and Spirit of Australian Dairy Portraits and Lifestyles oral histories of Australian dairy farmers illustrated by popular photographer Ken Duncan Dairy Australia 2008 McHugh s fifth book was a fictional account of the Snowy Scheme through the eyes of a young girl Eva Fischer who grows up in the township of Cabramurra 19 First published as My Story Snowy The Diary of Eva Fischer Scholastic 2003 it had three more editions most recently as Snowy Scholastic 2019 It was selected for the NSW Premier s Reading List for children aged c 11 12 years McHugh has also published a short memoir Power Cuts in Wee Girls Women writing from an Irish perspective Spinifex 1996 20 a chapter on pesticides and the cotton industry Cotton in Asimov s Elephant ABC Books 2003 21 and a chapter in an anthology about the Stolen Generations The Carers in Many Voices reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation National Library of Australia 2002 22 In recent years McHugh has written widely on long form audio storytelling oral history and podcasting for outlets such as The Conversation 23 Her academic writings can be found here 24 Radio career editOver four decades in radio McHugh has made some 60 audio works broadcast nationally and internationally many of which have won or been shortlisted for prestigious awards see Awards 25 26 Her radio career began in RTE Radio One s Light Entertainment division where she produced high rating live shows presented by Mike Murphy Morgan O Sullivan Myles Dungan and Marian Finucane She also produced documentaries notably with Shay Healy the 18 part Jacobs award winning social history of Ireland in the Sixties Strawberry Fields Forever 27 In 1985 McHugh moved to Australia and produced a six part series The Irish in Australia Past and Present 1985 for ABC s 3AR In 1987 she made a radio documentary series The Snowy The People Behind the Power for 2FC now Radio National s new Social History Unit featuring workers of 25 nationalities who helped build the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme McHugh produced many other series for the Talking History and Hindsight slots on the isolated mining town of Broken Hill Australian women s experiences in the Vietnam war the former Indigenous penal colony of Palm Island the history of tourism in the Whitsundays Irish orphan girls sent to Australia after the 1840s famine the 1854 Eureka rebellion that was said to be the birthplace of Australian democracy and more 25 She also produced a documentary for ABC s religious slot Encounter that tracked Aboriginal leader Patrick Dodson s visit to Ireland Reconciliation From Broome to Belfast 2001 28 a feature for Radio Eye on Samoan chieftains cultural influence on a drug ridden housing project in western Sydney Estate of Mind 1999 and a documentary Beagle Bay Irish nuns and Stolen Children 2000 that explored personal stories of the Stolen Generations in the lead up to national marches for reconciliation 29 Among her other works was a series for Into the Music on the rebirth of Irish music worldwide The Roaring Tiger co hosted and produced with the composer and musician Dr Thomas Fitzgerald 30 McHugh s later works for ABC Radio National also online as podcasts include Eat Pray Mourn Crime and Punishment in Jakarta 2013 an investigation with Dr Jacqui Baker of extrajudicial police killings in Indonesia which won bronze at New York Radio Festivals 31 and The Conquistador The Warlpiri and the Dog Whisperer 2018 an exploration with presenter Margo Neale of how two Chilean women from opposed political backgrounds ended up running a successful Indigenous art centre in the Australian desert 32 Podcasting career editMcHugh makes researches and critiques podcasts 33 she also teaches and promulgates podcasting as a new medium 34 Among her award winning storytelling collaborations are The Greatest Menace a queer history true crime investigation into a gay prison experiment described by one industry insider as Australia s S Town co created by Patrick Abboud and Simon Cunich and three podcasts made with The Age newsroom in Melbourne on all of which she was consulting producer advising on script structure and storytelling through sound Phoebe s Fall 2016 35 an investigation into the bizarre death in a Melbourne garbage chute of a young woman won gold at New York Radio Festivals and three national awards See Awards Wrong Skin 2018 examined the disappearance of a young couple from a remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia and the collision of culture and power 36 It also won gold at New York Radio Festivals and three national awards See Awards The Last Voyage of the Pong Su 2019 explores the human stories behind a North Korean drug heist on Victoria s shipwreck coast 37 It won gold at New York Festivals and was selected among the best investigative journalism podcasts of 2020 by the Global Investigative Journalism Network McHugh was also consulting producer on Gertie s Law an innovative podcast 38 by the Supreme Court of Victoria that examines court processes It won gold at New York Festivals 39 She later collaborated with Gertie s Law host Greg Muller on the podcast Motherlode which traced the history of early hacktivism including the back story to Julian Assange McHugh conceived and devised the award winning podcast Heart of Artness which she co hosts with Margo Neale 40 Head of Indigenous Knowledges at the National Museum of Australia 41 Heart of Artness features the voices of Indigenous artists and the many non Indigenous people they associate closely with to produce and market their art It was produced as a University of Wollongong UOW research project funded by the Australian Research Council in collaboration with art historian Ian McLean 42 43 McHugh has written extensively on podcasting the audio medium audio storytelling and associated topics such as the affective power of voice 44 45 Her article How Podcasting is Changing the Audio Storytelling Genre 46 discusses early adaptations of radio to podcasting 47 while her piece for Harvard University s Nieman Storyboard Subjectivity hugs and craft Podcasting as extreme narrative journalism 48 positions long form investigative journalism podcasts within the canon of Literary Journalism 48 She also published a book chapter Memoir For Your Ears The Podcast Life 2017 49 Her article The Narrative Podcast as Digital Literary Journalism Conceptualizing S Town won the 2021 Hartsock Prize for best Literary Journalism Studies article McHugh speaks about podcasting at a wide range of events 50 She was an annual speaker at the Global Editors Network GEN media summit in Europe 2015 2019 and an invited speaker at Melbourne s Wheeler Centre 2014 OzPod Sydney 2017 the BAD True Crime Festival 2019 and the World Journalism Education Conference Paris 2019 51 She was keynote speaker at the International Radio Festival in Iran 2010 and the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union ABU s General Assembly in Chengdu China 2017 She has also written articles on podcasting for WAN IFRA World Association of Newspapers UNESCO the Sydney Morning Herald and Transom org and an invited series for Flow Journal at University of Austin 52 She has conducted podcasting masterclasses and workshops for many groups including Rutas del Conflicto in Colombia the Sydney Writers Festival the Australian War Memorial the Voice of Vietnam state broadcaster and the ABU 53 In 2016 she began teaching a curriculum subject in Podcasting for UOW undergraduates and in 2018 launched a Massive Open Online Course MOOC The Power of Podcasting for Storytelling which had over 35 000 enrolments in over 150 countries 54 Oral history projects editMcHugh s oral history collections are archived at the National Library of Australia 55 the State Library of New South Wales 56 the City of Sydney Library and Sydney Living Museums They include interviews about the Snowy Mountains Scheme Australian women in the Vietnam war the cotton industry sectarianism and mixed marriage a history of Bronte and surf lifesaving Millers Point in Sydney s historic Rocks area Green Bans activist Jack Mundey 57 architect Harry Seidler and the Irish National Association 58 McHugh has presented on her oral history projects at Harvard University s Native American Program 2011 Concordia University s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling in Montreal and at national and international oral history conferences 59 Her scholarly article 44 Oral History on Radio The Affective Power of Sound first published in Oral History Review 2012 44 has been republished in The Oral History Reader eds Perks R amp Thomson A Routledge 2016 the foremost anthology of international oral history scholarship 60 It is one of fifteen influential articles selected for the first virtual edition produced by the US Oral History Association to mark their fiftieth anniversary in 2016 61 Awards editHartsock Prize for best Literary Journalism Studies article of 2021 for The Narrative Podcast as Digital Literary Journalism Conceptualizing S Town Winner gold New York Radio Festival 2022 The Greatest Menace Best Social Justice Podcast Winner bronze New York Radio Festival 2022 The Greatest Menace Best Narrative Documentary Podcast Winner bronze New York Radio Festival 2022 The Greatest Menace Best Serialized Podcast Winner Media Diversity Australia award 2022 The Greatest Menace Winner gold New York Radio Festival 2020 The Last Voyage of the Pong Su with team from The Age Winner gold New York Radio Festival 2019 Heart of Artness podcast Episode 2 Art with Heart A Two Ways World with Margo Neale and Ian Mclean 62 Winner gold New York Radio Festival 2019 Wrong Skin podcast with team from The Age 63 Winner Australian Podcasting Awards 2019 Best Investigative Podcast Wrong Skin podcast citation needed Winner Australian Podcasting Awards 2019 Podcast of the Year Wrong Skin podcast 64 Winner Melbourne Press Club Quills Award 2019 Wrong Skin podcast citation needed Winner gold New York Radio Festival 2017 Phoebe s Fall podcast with team from The Age 65 Winner Melbourne Press Club Quill 2016 Phoebe s Fall podcast citation needed Winner Australian Castaways 2017 Best Documentary Phoebe s Fall podcast citation needed Winner Kennedys Radio Current Affairs 2017 Phoebe s Fall podcast citation needed Anne Dunn Scholar of the Year 2014 awarded by Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia and Australian and New Zealand Communications Association 66 Winner bronze New York Radio Festival 2013 Eat Pray Mourn Crime and Punishment in Jakarta radio documentary collaboration with J Baker citation needed Winner gold Religion category New York Radio Festival 2010 Marrying Out radio documentary 67 Winner bronze History category New York Radio Festival 2010 Marrying Out citation needed United Nations Media Association Australia Peace Prize 2010 Finalist Marrying Out citation needed Winner NSW Premier s History Fellowship 2005 20 000 68 Winner Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union Best Radio Documentary 2004 Sweet Sorrow with Kumud Merani radio documentary citation needed NSW Premier s History Award audio visual 2004 Finalist The Irish at Eureka rebels or riff raff radio documentary citation needed Co winner National Trust Heritage Award 2004 Frozen Music film on architect Harry Seidler citation needed Winner Varuna Writer s Fellowship 2003 citation needed United Nations Media Association Australia Peace Prize 2002 Finalist Reconciliation from Broome to Belfast radio documentary citation needed Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism 2000 Finalist Beagle Bay Irish nuns and Stolen Children radio documentary citation needed Australia Council Literary Fellowship 1999 citation needed NSW Premier s History Award 1997 Finalist Cottoning On book citation needed Eureka Science Award Finalist 1997 Cotton and Chemicals radio essay citation needed Australia Council Literary Fellowship 1993 citation needed Australia Council Literary Fellowship 1991 citation needed Winner NSW Premier s Literary Award for Non Fiction 1990 The Snowy The People Behind the Power book 69 Australia Council Literary Fellowship 1988 citation needed Winner Jacob s Award 1984 Strawberry Fields Forever radio documentary RTE Ireland with Shay Healy citation needed References edit Siobhan McHugh Siobhan McHugh a b RadioDoc Review Faculty of Law Humanities and the Arts University of Wollongong Ro uow edu au The Anne Dunn Scholar Jeraa Jeraa org au McHugh Siobhan A Scholars uow edu au In A Strange Land RTE Archives McHugh Siobhan 25 January 1995 The Snowy the people behind the power Pymble N S W Angus amp Robertson via Trove Marrying Out Part One Not in Front of the Altar Radio National 3 September 2009 McHugh Siobhan 1 January 2010 Oral history and the radio documentary feature intersections and synergies University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954 2016 Alessandro Portelli Oral History Master of Arts RadioDoc Review releases first edition Radioinfo com au 12 March 2014 a b Siobhan McHugh 0000 0001 8079 1524 Orcid org a b The Snowy Newsouthbooks com au McHugh Siobhan collection Brissenden 25 January 1993 Minefields and miniskirts Australian women and the Vietnam War Sydney London Doubleday via Trove Minefields and Miniskirts Currency com au Retrieved 9 July 2022 Minefields and Miniskirts The Sydney Morning Herald 13 May 2005 a b McHugh Siobhan Associations NSW Federation of Housing 25 January 1999 Shelter from the storm Bryan Brown Samoan chieftains and the little matter of a roof over our heads St Leonards N S W Allen amp Unwin in conjunction with the NSW Federation of Housing Associations via Trove Assessment of the rigour and standing of Cottoning on stories of Australian cotton growing by S McHugh 1996 PDF Siobhanmchughwollogong files wordpress com Retrieved 9 July 2022 Scali Nick McHugh Siobhan 25 January 2003 Nick Scali my story Lidcombe N S W Jayenne Press via Trove The Store My Australian Story Snowy Book The Store shop scholastic com au Murphy Lizz 25 January 2003 Wee Girls Women Writing from an Irish Perspective North Melbourne Spinifex Press via Trove Williams 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2020 Eat Pray Mourn Crime and Punishment in Jakarta Radio National 28 March 2013 The Conquistador the Warlpiri and the dog whisperer ABC Radio National 13 April 2018 McHugh Siobhan Video didn t kill the radio star she s hosting a podcast The Conversation Journalism O S F 13 August 2019 التواصل ثم التواصل مرارا وتكرارا الجزء 1 Medium Baker Richard Phoebe s Fall The short life and brutal death of Phoebe Handsjuk The Age Podcasts Wrong Skin An investigation by The Age The Age Podcasts Pong Su An investigation by The Age The Age Wells Peter 23 October 2019 Here comes the judge Gertie s Law goes to the coalface of the court The Sydney Morning Herald Gertie s Law podcast The Supreme Court of Victoria Supremecourt vic gov au National Museum of Australia Blog Nma gov au HEART OF ARTNESS A journey into the cross cultural currents that animate Aboriginal art in Australia Artness net au Professor Ian McLean Centre of Visual Art 30 November 2018 Listening between the words Arc gov au 18 July 2019 a b c Siobhan A McHugh The affective power of sound oral history on radio Ro uow edu au Retrieved 9 July 2022 Podcasting s Dirty Secret Audio Storytelling Takes Art Craft and Tons of Time Siobhan McHugh University of Wollongong Flow Flowjournal org Retrieved 9 July 2022 How podcasting is changing the audio story telling genre Ro uow edu au Retrieved 9 July 2022 McHugh Siobhan April 2016 How podcasting is changing the audio storytelling genre The Radio Journal International Studies in Broadcast amp Audio Media 14 1 65 82 doi 10 1386 rjao 14 1 65 1 via ResearchGate a b Subjectivity hugs and craft Podcasting as extreme narrative journalism Nieman Storyboard McHugh Siobhan 16 October 2017 Memoir for Your Ears The Podcast Life Mediating Memory doi 10 4324 9781315107349 8 Potent podcasting 7 principles to make your audio pop International Journalists Network Phillips Mary Katharine 18 June 2019 GEN Summit 2019 monetising audio building direct relationships and emerging tech Twipemobile com 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podcast wins gold at prestigious New York awards The Sydney Morning Herald Winners Announced at 2019 Australian Podcast Awards Australian Podcast Awards McHugh Julie Posetti and Siobhan 20 June 2017 Phoebe s Fall podcast wins gold award at New York Radio Festival The Sydney Morning Herald Anne Dunn recipients ANZCA Australia and New Zealand Communication Association Inc anzca net 2 permanent dead link Annual Report 2004 05 NSW Ministry for the Arts PDF Media opengov nsw gov au Retrieved 9 July 2022 A Living Collection Siobhan McHugh ONE hundred 2 sl nsw gov au External links editUniversity of Wollongong Scholars Siobhan McHugh Siobhan McHugh s website The Australian Women s Register McHugh Siobhan 1957 Conversations with Richard Fidler a one hour interview about Siobhan s history of the Snowy Scheme ABC 2019 New York Radio Festivals Grand Jury POV Dr Siobhan McHugh Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Siobhan McHugh amp oldid 1173532264, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, 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