Day four at The Daily Telegraph To say it was a bit of a wild day is glib. NSW Opposition and Labor Leader Luke Foley resigned at 5.30pm in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct towards an ABC journalist in 2016. His resignation was later than expected, and in a statement shorter than expected.(…)
Janet returns, 1st News Conference (Daily Tele)
Day three I attended my first news conference, run by deputy editor Anthony De Ceglie. I received a topic sheet and watched the COS’s and sub-editors report on what they were running for the day and future press. Janet returned from a trip to Gosford and so I was pushed to the outer circle of(…)
Melbourne Cup @ The Daily Telegraph
On my way to work Rowan emailed me some photos of a hapless rock-fisherman. Requesting I write the copy I got in contact with photographer Peter Lorimer who had now shot the man three times. Eddie Qi, our quirky angler proved difficult to track down as, Lorimer informed me, he had no phone. That said,(…)
Daily Telegraph: Welcome to the biz, here’s a Murder (allegedly)
Start Date: 5/11/18 Angry Anderson’s son, Liam, had allegedly been murdered by Mathew Flame. This was what I stepped in to on my first day. Mark ‘Moz’ Morri was on the phone and talking to Matthew Dunne at the same time about the death and a lot more that was going on. The amount of(…)