Rani Fletcher

About Me

After taking a gap year and travelling post school, I moved from Perth to Melbourne at the beginning of 2023 to commence a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) at RMIT. I'm set to graduate in November this year.

I have a passion for visual storytelling, and in June I am travelling to Guatemala to participate in Solutions Journalism Without Borders - a a four-week solutions journalism study abroad program with a focus on mini and micro-documentary making.

I am currently interning at Worley as a communications and public relations intern, working closely with the Corporate Affairs team, with a focus on internal communications.

I'm also undertaking an internship in communications at RM Consulting Group (RMCG), with a focus on business communications and external project promotion.

Moving interstate without family or a home base has strengthened my independence, and encouraged me to throw myself into all kinds of new experiences to help me figure out areas of journalism I'm really interested in. This has looked like hosting community radio shows, competing in public speaking events, and participating in mentorship programs.

My Latest Work

The Swanston Gazette • 16th June 2025

You hear that? It’s the sound of a politician on your favourite podcast and they're not quietening down.

Triple R • 31st May 2025

Programs: Graveyard Shift – 31 May 2025 (2am-4am), Graveyard Shift — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

An episode of Graveyard Shift on 31 May 2025 presented by Rani Fletcher.

The Swanston Gazette • 24th July 2024

Pornography and perpetrators of domestic violence are more closely related than we think.

On a Friday night at the end of May, my mother sent an ABC news article to our family group chat. I opened it, shocked to read a mother and daughter had been killed in a shooting just five minutes from where I grew up in Subiaco, Western Australia.

The Swanston Gazette • 28th November 2023

Unplugging from news or plugging news alternatively? How Australia's news consumption is changing

“An algorithm then decides these are the sorts of things you want to consume. They [readers] consume what they want to know and not what they need to know.”She says the industry taught her “if it bleeds, it leads”, and says the rise in mental health issues amongst young people has challenged this. She says young people “don’t really want doom and gloom all the time” and are more frequently disengaging with confronting, sensationalist content.It has now been six weeks since Hamas’ initial attack...

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