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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Gerald Stone and the Making of Australian Current Affairs
Gerald Louis Stone (1933-2020) reshapes Australian broadcast journalism across the final quarter of the twentieth century. As founding executive producer of the Australian edition of 60 Minutes, he builds a model of television current affairs that joins investigative reporting, international … Continue reading
Paul Barry: A Chronicler of Australian Power
Paul Barry (b. 1952) is an Australian journalist, author, and broadcaster who built a career on the investigation of wealth, power, and institutional accountability. Across more than four decades he became a leading practitioner of investigative reporting in Australia. His … Continue reading
The Dean of Revolutionary Scholarship: Gordon S. Wood, 1933-2026
Gordon Stewart Wood (1933-2026) was a leading historian of America’s founding. For four decades at Brown University he argued that the American Revolution was a transformation in ideas, social relations, and conceptions of equality, not a quarrel over taxes or … Continue reading
The Last Generalist: Bob Ellis and Australian Public Life
Bob Ellis (1942-2016) worked across more fields of Australian public life than any writer of his generation. He wrote novels, plays, screenplays, memoirs, political histories, essays, poetry, songs, and journalism. He directed films. He drafted speeches for premiers and federal … Continue reading
WEHT to Investigative Journalism?
Investigative reporting cost a fortune long before the money dried up. A single story takes months, lawyers, travel, document review, and most of it ends in nothing publishable. Newspapers paid for that out of fat ad revenue and classified monopolies. … Continue reading
The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers
Philosophers Daniel Kodsi and John Maier write: The greatest mathematicians, scientists, and writers in history have been unusually smart and creative people. But do great intellectual achievements depend on unusual mental abilities alone? For instance, would Jane Austen still have … Continue reading
When Radio Hosts Transition To Podcasts
The clock disappears first. Radio runs on a rigid frame built around ad breaks, the top-of-hour news, traffic and weather on the eights. A host’s whole craft sits inside that frame. He learns to hit posts, tease into breaks, fill … Continue reading
The Jeremy Paxman Voice
Jeremy Paxman (b. 1950) built a public manner out of impatience. The voice carries it first. He speaks in educated southern English with a faint Yorkshire underlay, the product of Leeds, Malvern, and Cambridge sanded down by decades of London … Continue reading
The David Dimbleby Voice
David Dimbleby (b. 1938) speaks in the old BBC register, the patrician received pronunciation that his father Richard Dimbleby (1913-1965) helped fix as the sound of national occasion. The voice sits low and resonant. He keeps the pace slow and … Continue reading
The Krishnan Guru-Murthy Voice
Krishnan Guru-Murthy (b. 1970) carries a voice that works against the grain of British political interviewing. The old anchors built authority on weight. Dimbleby had the timber, Paxman the growl, and both let the instrument do half the intimidation. Guru-Murthy … Continue reading