Erin O’Dwyer has 25 years of experience in journalism and is also a qualified lawyer. These skills combined gave her unique insight into being a legal editor for The Law Handbook, an annually updated guide that includes practical law knowledge across different sectors, including the arts.
Throughout her career, O’Dwyer has worked as a senior staff journalist for the Fairfax Media stable, a producer for the ABC and an editor for SBS, and in 2006 she won the Australian United Nations Media Peace Award for Promotion of Multicultural Issues. She has also taught journalism and media law at the University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and University of Wollongong (UOW) in the past two decades.