Editorial: welcome to Volume 10

Let me begin with a warm welcome to Volume 10, No. 1, the first issue in the tenth year of publication, of Communication Research and Practice.

As someone who has been involved from the very beginning, I can both confidently and humbly declare that reaching this milestone is a wonderful achievement.

For a journal that was founded by the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) initially with a ‘start-up’ mindset to fill a void (that was caused in part by the decision to discontinue the former Australian Journal of Communication), we have become an international journal with a growing reputation.

I am pleased to report that we have largely fulfilled one of our core mission, which is to publish research that contributes to international scholarship and practice in the broadly defined field of communication; and in doing so, internationalise communication research in the Oceania region.

The international flavour of the journal is captured in this opening issue, with scholars and authors writing from different parts of the world, including: Finland, the United States of America, Singapore, and, of course, Australia. But more than that, most of the articles in this issue are globally contextualised in that they are based on studies done across the world.

The discipline of communication is also adequately represented in this issue, with the following fields (and/or sub-fields) reflected: news and journalism, digital media and literacy, media and communication policy, social media, online privacy, food (and) media, and more. Interestingly, the diversity of audiences and users addressed in this issue range from children to parents, and includes adults, elders and women.

In many ways, this issue alone has the feel of a scholarly global communication conference!

To kick off this volume, I have invited our Founding Editor Terry Flew to pen a commentary to commemorate ‘an engaging decade for Communication Research and Practice’. I strongly recommend this piece for all readers and followers of the journal – especially if you are a new or early-career communication scholar – to gain a deeper appreciation of the labours and energies that have been expended over the past 10 years to make Communication Research and Practice a stand-out reality.