Margaret Simons is an award-winning freelance journalist and the author of numerous articles and essays and many books, including Penny Wong: Passion and Principle (2019), the first biography of the Australian politician. She is also a journalism academic and Honorary Principal Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne. She has won the Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism, a Foreign Press Association Award and a number of Quill Awards.
Margaret Simons
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Reporting in Times of Crisis
Whether it’s Covid 19, domestic and international politics, war or fake news, conspiracy theories and rumours have abounded over the past two years. This panel of scientists and journalists examines reportage in times of crisis. Deborah Stone (moderator), Peter Doherty, Margaret Simons, Norman Swan, Zoya Sheftalovich