Fisher briefed National Press Foundation fellows in March 2022: 21 Types of Political Spin You Should Know. 

Caroline Fisher is associate professor of communication, discipline lead of journalism and deputy director of the News and Media Research Centre in the Faculty of Arts & Design at the University of Canberra, Australia.

Fisher’s areas of research expertise include Political Public Relations and ‘spin’, journalist/politician relations, news consumption and trust in news. She is co-author of the annual Digital News Report: Australia, which is part of a global study of news trends led by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. Prior to academia, Fisher worked as a journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and as a political media adviser in the Queensland Government.