Tania Peitzker - Multimedia Journalism

Multimedia Journalism

From Berlin, Zurich and Geneva in the early 2000s, Tania Peitzker wrote feature articles - for both traditional print media and online news platforms - about scientific innovation, cutting edge university research and higher education reforms. She specialized in knowledge transfer issues for the Londoner Times Higher Education Supplement known globally as THES or the Times Higher, and the New Yorker The Wall Street Journal Europe or WSJE based in Brussels.

During this period as a stringer or freelance specialist correspondent, Peitzker contributed to the THES International Ranking of Universities by providing reports and interviews with government higher education executives, rectors, vice-chancellors, Nobel Prize winners and scientists in German-speaking countries.

From 1989 to 1990 in Australia, she became known for the country's first regular radio show devoted to female composers of classical music from around the globe, “Why Not Women?”. The monthly radio programme was broadcast live on the public radio station for classical music, 4MBS in Brisbane, Queensland, and was created in collaboration with the International League of Women Composers (ILWC) in New York, USA.

During this intensive period of community and volunteer work in broadcasting, Peitzker pioneered the establishment of the first Australian archive for the original recordings of contemporary compositions and historic classical music by women composers from around the world, most of which the American ILWC had sent to 4MBS in the 1980s and 1990s.

She was also the initiator of a live, free public concert featuring the acclaimed Brisbane composers, Mary Mageau and Betty Beath, whose classical music was performed by local musicians in the auditorium of the State Library of Queensland. The concert took place through Peitzker getting sponsors, State Government patronage and organizing the performances by other volunteers, as an extension of her work as a community broadcaster at 4MBS, then based on a local university campus.