Catharine Lumby has worked at the Sydney Morning Herald, as an adviser to the South Australian Equal Opportunity Commissioner, and as a lecturer in mass communications at Macquarie University. In 1994 she was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and moved to New York to take up residence for 18 months as a visiting scholar at New York University. Catharine now teaches mass communications at Macquarie University and is completing her PhD dissertation on tabloid television.