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In the line of fire

By Matthew Ricketson

Matthew Ricketson found Adrian Hyland's focused account of the Black Saturday fires affecting and unsettling

Shot down in sideshow alley

By Laura Tingle

The media reacted badly when Lindsay Tanner blamed them for dumbing down political debate. But Laura

Reporter: Forty Years Covering Asia

By John McBeth

John McBeth was part of a golden age of print reporting in Asia. Events were big, personalities were

Biography of the big C

By Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer was once unmentionable and incurable. A new book charts its changing status. Review by Meliss

  • Books Worth Noting

    15 June 2011

    By Jenny Tabakoff

    Standouts on the shelves

  • Books worth noting

    22 February 2011

    By Jenny Tabakoff

    On the shelves...

  • Nowhere Man

    22 December 2010

    By John M. Green

    Peter Ryan wades into the smouldering embers of the GFC, in his review of John M Green's fictional financial thriller...

  • A Crooked Sixpence

    15 December 2010

    By Murray Sayle

    In a London flat, one of the great novels of journalism was born... this is a copy of Maureen Barnett's 2009 review of A Crooked Sixpence by legendary Australian journalist Murray Sayle, who passed away earlier this year.

  • Books worth noting...

    26 October 2010

    By Jenny Tabakoff

    Jenny Tabakoff takes stock of a selection of page turners currently on shelves.

  • Luck of the draw

    26 October 2010

    By Walkleys

    Two Australian cartoonists, Judy Horacek and Alan Moir, have released books of their work dealing with the hot stuff: climate change and politics.

What’s New?

  1. 30 January 2012
    Entries Now Open-The Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year Awards

    Entries for the 2012 Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year...

  2. 18 January 2012
    Walkley Foundation Training Programme

    Power up your mastery of digital technology through our course Social...

Editor's Choice

  1. 15 August 2011
    Growing old – from bad news to good news

    By Anne Ring

    With society growing older by the day, media needs to play a larger role in breaking down ageist barriers....

  2. Laurie Oakes at the 2010 Walkley Awards
    11 August 2011
    Where to from here?

    By Walkleys

    Walkley Foundation Advisory Board chair Laurie Oakes discusses the public crisis of faith in our trade,...

  3. 5 August 2011
    10 things you need to know about literary journalism

    By Stephen Romei

    Stephen Romei reveals the ungenteel side of book reviews

Projects

  1. Life in the Clickstream Vol II read it here....

    Following the success of volume one, two years ago, here's the latest Future of Journalism Report.