Throughout their illustrious careers, John Silvester and Andrew Rule have turned the torch on some of Melbourne's seediest scenarios. At the final Edit event for 2016, the authors of Underbelly: The Gangland War and the long-running ‘Naked City’ column in The Age talked about career paths, journalistic methods and maintaining relationships with sources.

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John Silvester moderated an MPC lunch event in 2017 with former Police Commissioner Ron Iddles (see video here). Silvester covered Iddles' entire homicide police career, and here he talks about maintaining relationships with sources.

Andrew Rule on his literary and cultural influences, for RN's Books and Arts show