Books & arts
15 November 2024
Rick Morton’s account of the robodebt scandal is a bracing reminder of unfinished business
Books & arts
14 February 2024
Former Washington Post editor Martin Baron reflects on Trump, Bezos and the challenges of journalism
Books & arts
14 December 2022
In her latest post-election book Niki Savva puts Scott Morrison through the wringer. But has she avoided all the pitfalls of the genre?
Books & arts
10 October 2022
Parents of the Sandy Hook victims took on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones with stunning results
Books & arts
4 August 2020
Books | The influential New Yorker article changed the way we think about nuclear weapons
Books & arts
29 January 2020
Books | To an alarming degree, reality TV matches how Donald Trump sees the world
Books & arts
12 July 2019
Books | The shifting allegiances of The Troubles are brought alive in this year’s Orwell Prize winner
National affairs
26 February 2019
With the child sexual abuse royal commission handing down its report, what have we learned so far about the dynamics of abusive institutions?
National affairs
15 November 2018
With Fairfax shareholders voting next week on the merger with Nine, it’s a good time to consider how well the company’s journalism has weathered a period of enormous change
Essays & reportage
30 August 2018
Where does the famed journalist fit into the American pantheon?
National affairs
28 June 2018
The royal commission has shown how institutions can rebuild their relationships with the children in their care
Essays & reportage
22 February 2018
Michael Wolff’s book owes a large debt to the ethically grounded work of the journalists he professes to disdain
Essays & reportage
18 September 2017
Despite Nick Xenophon’s efforts, less powerful players were squeezed out of the media reform deal
Essays & reportage
11 April 2017
The satirist inverted conventional journalistic formats to probe politics and power
International
28 December 2016
Old-fashioned reporting finally undid the unattractive creator of Fox News
Essays & reportage
4 August 2016
We now know much about what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. But the earliest reliable news came from maverick journalists, writes Matthew Ricketson
Books & arts
5 May 2014
Writer Joe McGinniss, who died in March, became a lightning rod for criticism of the way journalists deal with their sources, writes Matthew Ricketson
Books & arts
29 June 2011
Journalists need to think more carefully about their relationships with their sources, writes Matthew Ricketson
Books & arts
25 February 2010
Matthew Ricketson talks to journalist Mark Danner, in Australia for the launch of his book Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War