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Category Archives: Journalism
Linton Besser: A Reporter and the Paper Trail
Linton Besser (b. 1976) is an Australian investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, and media critic. He reports on corruption, regulatory failure, corporate misconduct, and the conduct of public institutions. Across newspapers, television, radio, and documentary film he has built a body … Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Voice of Yalda Hakim (Sky News)
Yalda Hakim (b. 1983) speaks in a voice built for the anchor desk and the war zone at once. She carries an Australian base under a layer of mid-Atlantic broadcast polish, the accent you hear in presenters who train in … Continue reading
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The Tom Bradby Voice (ITV Newsreader)
Tom Bradby (b. 1967) anchors with a voice built for confidence rather than authority. The two differ. Authority commands. Confidence invites. Bradby leans toward the second. He speaks to the camera as a man might speak to one person across … Continue reading
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