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Jake Lynch

Journalist, academic and poet (born 1965) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jake Lynch
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Jake Lynch (born 1965) is a journalist, academic, novelist and poet, and a scholarly authority within the fields of peace journalism and peace research.[1][2][3] He is an academic with the University of Sydney. Mind Over Murder, his detective story set in contemporary Oxford and co-authored with Annabel McGoldrick, is published by Next Chapter. His debut novel, Blood on the Stone, an historical mystery thriller set in Oxford in 1681, was published by Unbound Books. [2][1]

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Peace journalist Jake Lynch covering protests against joint US-Australia military exercises in Australia.

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Education

Lynch attended Cardiff University, where he completed a BA degree in English (First Class Honours) in 1988 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism Studies (Distinction) with Cardiff University in 1989.[2] He subsequently attended City University, London, where he completed a PhD degree in 2008.[2]

Professional career

Lynch worked as a journalist for two decades (from 1989), including as Sydney Correspondent for The Independent, a Political Correspondent in London for Sky News and as a television newsreader with BBC News.[4] Since 2007, he has worked in academia, and currently holds the position of Associate Professor within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sydney University.[2] He was formerly Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Sydney University, and later Chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the university.[2][5] Lynch has also previously served as Secretary-General of the International Peace Research Association,[6] and has held visiting professorships and fellowships with the universities of Coventry, Cardiff, Bristol and Johannesburg.[7][8] Lynch has since turned towards creative writing, with a debut novel published in 2019 and a detective story in 2025. His poetry appears in literary journals.

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Honours and awards

Lynch has received numerous awards, most recently the Luxembourg Peace Prize for his work in peace journalism.[1]

Activism

Lynch has been active in human rights campaigns, in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, and in campaigns for Palestinian rights.[9][10][11] In 2013, Shurat HaDin, an Israeli NGO, commenced legal action in the Federal Court of Australia against Lynch, alleging a breach of Australia's anti-racism laws over Lynch's active support for the BDS campaign.[12] The case, however, was subsequently dismissed by His Honour Justice Alan Robertson, with costs in favour of Lynch.[13][14]

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See also

Bibliography

  • Lynch, J. and Annabel McGoldrick (2025) Mind Over Murder. London: Next Chapter.
  • Lynch, J. (2019) Blood on the Stone. London: Unbound Books.
  • Lynch, J. (2017). Terrorism, the "Blowback" thesis and the UK media. Peace Review, 29(4), pp. 443–449.
  • Lynch, J. (2017). News coverage, peacemaking and peacebuilding. In Robinson, Piers; Seib, Philip; Frohlich, Romy (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security, (pp. 197–209). Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Lynch, J. (2018) Foreword. Peace Journalism Principles and Practices, (pp. xv-xvii). New York: Routledge.
  • Lynch, J. (2018). Where I stand on peace journalism and the academic boycott of Israel. Conflict and Communication, 17(1), pp. 1–4.
  • Lynch, J. (2018). Peace Journalism. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication: Journalism Studies. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Lynch, J. (2019). Public Service Broadcasting and Security Issues: The Case of 'Blowback'. In Shaw, Ibrahim Seaga; Selvarajah, Senthan (eds.), Reporting Human Rights, Conflicts, and Peacebuilding: Critical and Global Perspectives, (pp. 85–101). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hussain, S., Lynch, J. (2019). Identifying peace-oriented media strategies for deadly conflicts in Pakistan. Information Development, 35(5), pp. 703–713.
  • Lynch, J. (2014) A Global Standard for Reporting Conflict. New York: Routledge.
  • Lynch, J. (2008) Debates in Peace Journalism. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Lynch, J. and Annabel McGoldrick (2005) Peace Journalism. Stroud: Hawthorn Press.
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