Melbourne Press Club

2023/2024 Michael Gordon Fellows announced

Four new projects of social justice journalism will be undertaken in the coming year after the Melbourne Press Club announced the latest recipients of the Michael Gordon Journalism Fellowships.

Australia's secrecy laws include 875 offences. Reforms are welcome but don't go far enough for press

Peter Greste says it's laudable that the government recognises the threats to media freedom embedded in the law, but the answers in the review are more of the same: a set of band aids, rather than a comprehensive cure.

What's good about the Ballarat Times?

By starting in the very job she trained for, Edwina Williams defied a trend for journalism graduates. In less than five years since, she has worked her way up to be the senior journalist at the Ballarat Times, a free community weekly serving her hometown.

How to write (good) and better with Andrew Rule

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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.