Hugh Martin is coordinator of the Masters of Communications (Journalism Innovation).

Hugh has worked in a variety of digital editorial and publishing roles with Australia’s biggest news publishers. He was Editor of The Age Online at Fairfax Media and Editor of www.news.com.au at News Corp. He subsequently became General Manager of APN Online, a division of APN News & Media, where he launched APN's Regional Online news network.

He received a Walkley Award in 2004, and is a winner of two Melbourne Press Club Awards.

He was also Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS, Chair of the Pacific Area News Association Digital Advisory Group, and a member of the International Committee of the Online News Association.

He has taught journalism at RMIT and UTS.

In 2014 he was a recipient of the Google/Walkley Foundation Grant for Innovation in Journalism.