{{Short description|Australian journalist and academic}} {{BLP primary sources|date=November 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox academic |name=Jenna Price |education=University of Technology Sydney |thesis_title=Destroying the joint: A case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women |thesis_url=http://hdl.handle.net/2123/21156|thesis_year=2019 |workplaces=University of Technology, Sydney<br> Australian National University |alma_mater=University of Sydney |influences=Ariadne Vromen |awards=Edna Ryan Award | birth_date = 1957-04-10 }}
'''Jenna Price''' is an Australian journalist and academic. As of 2021, she is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and a columnist at ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' .<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jenna Price|url=https://www.smh.com.au/by/jenna-price-hvep6|access-date=2021-11-03|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref> She is one of the founders of the online feminist movement, Destroy The Joint.
== Education and career == Price graduated with a BA in communications from the NSW Institute of Technology (now University of Technology, Sydney – UTS) in 1981.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jenna Price|url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/jenna-price-3384|access-date=2021-11-02|website=The Conversation|language=en}}</ref> She also holds an MA from UTS (2013), where she worked as lecturer for some years.<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Price|first=Jenna|url=https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/23559/5/02Whole.pdf|title='I Can't Wait Til I'm an Actual Journalist': How Students Begin to Become Journalists|year=2013|archive-date=5 November 2021|access-date=3 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105215141/https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/23559/5/02Whole.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> She received a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2019. Her thesis, "Destroying the joint: A case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women", is a history and assessment of the online feminist movement, Destroy The Joint, which she co-founded in 2012.<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Price|first=Jenna|url=https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/21156/price_j_thesis.pdf|title=Destroying the joint: A case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women|year=2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Nicholson|first=Larissa|date=2012-10-08|title=Online and outraged: the people begin to talk back|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/online-and-outraged-the-people-begin-to-talk-back-20121008-279q8.html|access-date=2021-11-04|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref>
While a student in the early 1980s, she worked as editorial assistant for ''Listening Post'', the magazine published by volunteer radio station 2SER-FM.<ref>{{Citation|author1=|title=Despatches|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1726688780/view?sectionId=nla.obj-1801004830&searchTerm=Jenna+Price&partId=nla.obj-1726694954#page/n1/|journal=Listening Post|issue=17|publication-date=1981-02-01|publisher=Sydney Educational Broadcasting|issn=0157-6844}}</ref>
She joined The Sydney Morning Herald in February 1982.<ref>{{Citation|author1=|title=Movements|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1723392894/view?sectionId=nla.obj-1792815233&searchTerm=Jenna+Price&partId=nla.obj-1723601804#page/n8|journal=Listening Post|issue=30|publication-date=1982-03-01|publisher=Sydney Educational Broadcasting|issn=0157-6844}}</ref> In 1984 she worked on the first edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide,'' edited by Leo Schofield and David Dale.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Connell|first=Jan|date=1980-09-24|title=First Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide|url=https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/first-smh-good-food-guide/|access-date=2021-11-02|website=Australian Food Timeline|language=en-AU}}</ref> In the mid-1990s, Price was writing on women's<ref>{{cite news|last=Price|first=Jenna|date=30 July 1994|title=Victimised women now hitting back|volume=69|page=44|newspaper=The Canberra Times|issue=21,654|location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118194448|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=4 November 2021}}</ref> and human rights issues<ref>{{cite news|last=Price|first=Jenna|date=23 July 1994|title=Church v state: Clancy joins the Timor debate|volume=69|page=15|newspaper=The Canberra Times|issue=21,647|location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118193025|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=4 November 2021}}</ref> for ''The Canberra Times''.
Price was awarded an Edna Ryan Award for Media/Communication in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Past Recipients|url=https://ednaryan.net.au/awards/past-recipients/|access-date=2021-11-03|website=Edna Ryan Awards|language=en-AU}}</ref>
She wrote the "2019 Women for Media Report: 'You can't be what you can't see'" for Women's Leadership Institute Australia.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Price|first1=Jenna|title=2019 Women for Media Report: 'You can't be what you can't see'|last2=Payne|first2=Anne Maree|publisher=Women's Leadership Institute Australia|year=2019}}</ref>
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== External links ==
*[https://www.womeninmediawa.com.au/news/women-social-media-changing-things-jenna-price-conversation-colleen-egan/ Women, Social Media and Changing Things: Jenna Price in conversation with Colleen Egan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103234211/https://www.womeninmediawa.com.au/news/women-social-media-changing-things-jenna-price-conversation-colleen-egan/ |date=3 November 2021 }} *{{Twitter|id=JennaPrice}}
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