Watch: How to write (good) and better with Andrew Rule

Earlier this year, one of the nation's best journalists, Andrew Rule distilled years of wisdom on How to write (good) and better.

How to write (good) and better with Andrew Rule

Andrew Rule tells big stories for a living. The end result is a decorated career – twice winner of the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year, a Gold Quill, a Gold Walkley, a shelf full of books, from a bumper biography of a media tycoon (Kerry Stokes), to the story of a remarkable horse (Winx), and including a range of true crime books, many with John ‘Sly’ Silvester.

2001 Perkin award winner Andrew Rule

1996 Perkin award winner Andrew Rule

2018 Winner Andy Rule

Andrew Rule won the national sports journalism prize for his biography of Winx

2018 Gordon award winner Andy Rule

Andrew Rule won the national sports journalism prize for his biography of Winx

The Edit's Crime Night: with Sly & Rule

Throughout their illustrious careers, John Silvester and Andrew Rule have turned the torch on some of Melbourne's seediest scenarios

Chapter 3. A remarkable editor

On 14 December, 1976, there was a lunch in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria that was to give new prestige to the Melbourne Press Club. The memory of Graham Perkin was very fresh in all our minds. Perkin, editor-in-­chief of The Age, died suddenly of a heart attack on 16 October, 1975. He was 45.