Margaret Simons is an award-winning freelance journalist and the author of thirteen books and numerous articles and essays. Previously the director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism and coordinator of the new masters in Journalism at the University of Melbourne, Simons is a board member of the Public Interest Journalism Initiative, which conducts research and advocacy on media issues.
When Australian investigative journalist Nick McKenzie arrived at his desk one morning in 2014, he was surprised to find a bunch of flowers had been sent up from the mailroom. “In the flowers there was a note that said, ‘There … Read more
