Melbourne Press Club

MPC expresses support for striking Fairfax journalists

The Press Club declares sympathy for journalists at The Age and Sydney Morning Herald who have called a week-long strike in the face of staff cuts.

Vale Evan Whitton

One Australia's finest investigative journalists and editors has died at the age of 90

2017 Quills: The Gold Quill

Fairfax Media & ABC have won the 2017 Gold Quill

2017 Quills: Coverage of an Issue or Event

A Fairfax Media & ABC Team have won the 2017 Coverage of an Issue or Event Quill for 'China's influence - power and payments'

Celebrating Ron Tandberg's life and career

MPC Event

Speeches from the launch of 'A Year of Madness' book and exhibition

MPC elects new president

Senior Fairfax business journalist Adele Ferguson is the new president of the Melbourne Press Club.

Life after redundancy

The latest round of Fairfax redundancies come as a huge blow to the industry. The New Beats research project looks at what's likely to come next for the staff who'll be leaving.

2016 Quills: Innovation in Journalism

The winner of the Innovation in Journalism Quill is Soren Frederiksen, Conal Hanna & Craig Dixon (Fairfax Media)

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.

Gerard Ryle in conversation with Bill Birnbauer

MPC Event

In April 2013, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published the first of a series of astonishing reports revealing the secret financial records of tens of thousands of people in more than 170 countries linked to offshore companies and trusts. What became one of the biggest multi-country investigations in history started in 2011 when then-Fairfax Media investigative journalist Gerard Ryle received a mysterious package in the post: a hard drive containing 2.5 million digital files.

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MPC expresses support for striking Fairfax journalists

Vale Evan Whitton

2017 Quills: The Gold Quill

2017 Quills: Coverage of an Issue or Event

Celebrating Ron Tandberg's life and career

MPC elects new president

Life after redundancy

2016 Quills: Innovation in Journalism

Chapter 3. A remarkable editor

Gerard Ryle in conversation with Bill Birnbauer

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