Dr Marion McCutcheon is a communications economist and holds the position of Senior Research Fellow at the University of Canberra’s News and Media Research Centre. She has extensive experience in providing policy-oriented research and advice within the Australian Government, and as an academic researcher focussing on media industries and creative industries. Her interests include the role of creative production in economic systems, and how society benefits from investing in culture. Current research includes adapting the trident model of the creative and cultural industries to include qualifications, and studies of creative and cultural practitioners working in education in South Australia and in mining in Western Australia. Recent work includes the books Transnational TV Crime: From Scandinavia to the Outback, co-authored with the University of Wollongong’s Sue Turnbull, and Lost Culture: The Unravelling of Cultural Policy and National Drama in the On-Demand Age, written with Anna Potter from the Queensland University of Technology.