Over a long career, Michael Cannon (1929–2022) worked as a journalist, editor and author. His best-known book, The Land Boomers, first published in 1966, is available in paperback and eBook form from Melbourne University Publishing.
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      Who owned the owners?
    
    
      Michael Cannon 
    
    
      1 March 2019    
    
      Books | As the power of newspapers grew, the real press barons increasingly hid their control with elaborate ruses
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        Essays & reportage
      
        
      The man who called himself “the Vagabond”
    
    
      Michael Cannon 
    
    
      17 December 2018    
    
      A social justice pioneer’s secret life is unveiled in a new book
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      The journo who never got away
    
    
      Michael Cannon 
    
    
      5 June 2018    
    
      Books | Murdoch lieutenant Les Hinton doesn’t burn all his bridges in his frank new memoir
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      The enigma of Keith Murdoch
    
    
      Michael Cannon 
    
    
      18 November 2015    
    
      A new biography reveals a complex and contentious figure
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
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