Narelle is a digital media and journalism academic and an award-winning investigative reporter who has worked in senior editorial roles for leading news websites and newspapers.  

Her two-decade journalistic career began at Nature magazine, and she has worked across a range of media in TV news, online and print.   

As a reporter for The Guardian Australia, Narelle regularly covers politics, courts, equity, health, and environmental issues.  Her stories have investigated asbestos contamination in Wittenoom, groundwater mining and state homelessness and are often published internationally.

As head of journalism at Murdoch University, Narelle  runs the course across two countries and has been awarded a Fellowship with the Higher Education Academy. 

She has worked as the deputy editor for a leading news website, covered the science and environment round for online, newspapers and magazine, worked in TV news and produced and edited multimedia and video content for the web.

In 2022, she was nominated for two WA Media Awards for her feature reporting and in 2014 jointly won the Best Multimedia Report or Series for an investigative environmental feature about the Swan River.

Prior to that, Narelle was awarded both the environment and science prizes at the WA Media Awards for best news reports in those categories and in 2008 I was awarded the Best Travel Writer Award for a piece on saving the orang-utans of Borneo.

She sits on various boards including The Junction Journalism and Murdoch University’s Singapore Academic Board. 

A collection of some of Narelle’s works can be found here:  https://muckrack.com/narelle-towie.