Behind the Media
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Behind the Media
Stephen Brook, The Australian's media diarist speaks with journalists, writers, editors and analysts about the state of Australia's media industry, as well as their own careers.
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42 EpisodenStephen Brook: "I think that gossips make very good journalists, if you've got a skill you should embrace it and try and exploit it professionally."
As a bonus episode of BTM Hedley Thomas interviews Stephen Brook on his last day as The Australia's Media Diary columnist and host of the podcast. The...
George Negus: "I don't think I'm much of a reporter to be honest."
Media Diarist Stephen Brook interviews the veteran broadcaster of This Day Tonight, Foreign Correspondent, Dateline and 60 Minutes. George is involved...
Ed Kavalee: "Be the weirdo you are off air, on air."
Media Diarist Stephen Brook interviews Ed Kavalee, the TodayFM Sydney breakfast co-host, and comedian. Stephen asks if Ed can rescue the low ratings s...
Ben Fordham: "You do need to protect yourself... do I want that rattling around in my head? The answer I've learned is no."
Stephen Brook, The Australian’s Media Diarist interviews Ben Fordham, broadcast journalist on 2GB radio and Channel 9’s Today show. As a young radio r...
Hedley Thomas: "I didn't lose control, but I was worried that I couldn't do justice to the scale of the story, the magnitude, the importance of it."
Media Diarist Stephen Brook interviews Hedley Thomas, the investigative journalist behind the record breaking true crime podcast The Teacher’s Pet, wh...
Michael Rowland: "I loathe this word chemistry, absolutely hate it. People talk about breakfast tv... or radio duo having chemistry. I just think it's pretty artificial."
The Australian’s Media Diarist Stephen Brook interviews Michael Rowland, co-host of ABC New Breakfast. The two engage in an ABC vs The Australian arm...
Barrie Cassidy: "There are more partisan journalists (now) than there ever were in the past"
It's hard to imagine the ABC without Insiders, the television show that reshaped the broadcaster's Sunday morning political programming. Host Barrie C...
Dan Box: "True Crime is so hot right now... I just wanted to reach across and slap him."
Former crime reporter at The Australian Dan Box has spent the past three years covering the Bowraville murders in print, and for a podcast. He returne...
Anton Enus: "The apartheid masters did everything they could to exert pressure on the organisation to conform to the message they wanted to send out."
Back on our screens after being diagnosed with bowel cancer two years ago, Anton Enus says the whole experience changed him as a person and a journali...
Feature writer Trent Dalton: "They will size you up, and open that friggin door, and that's a beautiful trust exercise."
Media Diarist Stephen Brook interviews The Weekend Australian Magazine staff writer Trent Dalton, discussing the intense emotional attachment he forms...
Drama scriptwriter Bevan Lee: "I don't think overall in Australian drama there tends to be enough emotion."
Since the 1980s, Lee has described Australia to itself via the medium of commercial television drama, working on Sons and Daughters as a writer, rewri...
Paul Kelly: "Predictions are cheap, particularly if you get them wrong"
The Australian's editor-at-large, Paul Kelly, gives his account of Australia's recent political turmoil and discusses the state of press gallery journ...
NT News Editor Matt Williams: "I love crocodile stories... I'm less obsessed with aliens and UFOs than my previous counterparts"
The Northern Territory News is a tabloid paper which has grown a global reputation for it's quirky coverage of life in Australia's north. Editor Matt...
Helen McCabe: "I had no idea, about magazines. My advice... is don't let that stop you"
Helen McCabe is one of the most powerful women in media, with a resume ranging from editing the Australian Women's Weekly, time on newspaper back benc...
Campbell Brown: "The publishers who built businesses on Facebook around clickbait have seen their traffic plummet."
Facebook's head of news partnerships Campbell Brown is a serious journalist who worked at NBC, CNN and won an Emmy Award for her reporting on Hurrican...
Mark Schoofs: "I began to learn the power not of opinion, not of empathy ... but of simply hard fact."
Mark Schoofs heads a global team of investigative reporters for BuzzFeed News. He set up the team that has prosecuted important investigations into te...
Les Hinton: "I hesitated about writing my life story at all because I knew I was going to have to deal with Rupert."
Stephen Brook interviews Les Hinton, who for decades was Rupert Murdoch’s right-hand man. He left News International in 2011 after the News of the Wor...
Kate McClymont: "Whenever I do a story in the back of my mind is a lawsuit."
The Sydney Morning Herald’s investigative reporter discusses getting more death threats than awards, being sued by Eddie Obeid and her reporting landi...
Shaun Micallef: "I don't want to be a dirty comic and I don't want to be a political comic. I will not be misinterpreted by an audience."
Actor, comedian and author Shaun Micallef adds "promiscuity" to his list of abilities after successfully working with every major Australian tv channe...
Hamish Blake and Andy Lee: "We've only got our one trick and we continue to do it."
Poolside the morning after the Logies at The Star Gold Coast, Hamish and Andy talk about their enduring partnership, Bert Newton's clanger, the diffic...
Kerry O'Brien: "Politicians would kill to have the level of trust the ABC has."
The legendary former anchor of 7:30 Report and Four Corners discusses the "punishment" behind the governments ABC cuts, how the public broadcaster mus...
Richard Lloyd Parry: "I do sometimes feel like one of the dinosaurs soon after the comet hit the Yucatan peninsula."
International guest Richard Lloyd Parry is the Asia Editor of The Times newspaper.He’s the author of Ghosts Of The Tsunami, a book about how that disa...
Julia Zemiro: "There's something about getting older, wanting to open up a bit more and explore where you come from, why you're doing the things you're doing, forgiving stuff in the past."
Zemiro is the host with the most; she’s the face of Home Delivery on ABC, RocKwiz on SBS and calls herself the midwife of Eurovision in Australia. And...
Sharri Markson: "The news isn't always comfortable. That was a news photograph, it told the story and the story was in the public interest."
At 34, the indefatigable Markson is the national political editor for The Daily Telegraph. She broke the news that Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce was having...
Ross Coulthart: "The commercial TV industry is full of eccentric A-type personalities, most of whom are barking mad."
A senior presence at the Nine Network's 60 Minutes, investigative journalist Ross Coulthart talks about why he is departing, and what he might to do n...
David Koch: "It's always been my goal that people will see me as someone who's reasonably smart, that you can trust and is pretty normal."
Kochie discusses being a finance nerd, his career trajectory from being a junior auditor to a cadetship at The Australian and creating the format of r...
Peter Blunden: "The number of times I've woken up at three or four in the morning and thought, 'Gee I wish I handled that differently'."
Blunden looks back over more than 40 years in journalism, including editing the Herald Sun and Adelaide Advertiser. The newspaper veteran has mellowed...
Patricia Karvelas: "A lot of this factionalism is from the leadership level; you're either with us or against us. It's dangerous to journalism."
PK is the host of ABC Radio National Drive, National Wrap on ABC News 24 and The Party Room podcast. She previously hosted her own program on Sky New...
Jane Kennedy: "Have we gone mad that we can't make jokes that fly a little close to the edge?"
The actress, producer, comedian, cook book author, tv presenter and radio broadcaster wears many hats. Perhaps best known for her role as Brooke Vande...
Andrew Bolt: "Sometimes I do think I've got more opinions than is healthy in a normal person."
Bolt talks about retirement plans, political plans, loyalty to readers outweighing his friendship with politicians including Tony Abbott. He reveals t...
Michael Ware: "You had to be there in the blood and guts."
Michael Ware became the voice of the Iraq war when he was based in Baghdad for Time magazine and CNN for six years from 2003. Here he details why suc...
Ita Buttrose: "If you want the big roles I've held you have to be tough."
Ita Buttrose is a media figure who needs no introduction. She founded Cleo magazine in the 1970s, then became editor in chief of the Australian Women'...
Janet Albrechtsen: "I worked out very early on in this job that you make a new set of friends every week and a new set of enemies.
Janet Albrechtsen is an opinion columnist with The Australian who came to the paper after a career in law. She sat down with Stephen Brook to talk ab...
Russel Howcroft: "If you're in the business of spending your marketing money, where to put that money is tough."
Russel Howcroft, an industry veteran who this year celebrates a decade on The Gruen Transfer, the hit ABC advertising panel show, says the dynamic has...
Julian Morrow: "As often happened at The Chaser sometimes we only really discovered where the line was by looking back over our shoulder"
The Chaser has been a unique part of the media landscape and at its centre has been Julian Morrow, who trained as a lawyer, negotiated the contracts w...
Mia Freedman: "social media pile ons happen, they're mortifying when you're on the bottom of them."
The MamaMia founder sits down for her first extensive interview after her annus horribilis, and discusses why she continues to put herself out there,...
Chris Kenny: "I am old enough and ugly enough not to worry about being loved."
The Australian’s Chris Kenny today talks about why he is leaving Sky News for radio, whether Kevin Rudd really tried to block him getting a job on the...
Peter Greste: "There's another problem quite beyond the fame - I'm a convicted terrorist."
Foreign correspondent Peter Greste explains how to survive in an Egyptian prison for 400 days, watching a colleague die in Somalia, fighting for press...
Miranda Devine: "Andrew Bolt and I don't talk any more."
Controversial News Corp columnist Miranda Devine explains why she said no to same-sex marriage, how column writing is a performance, and reflects on b...
Amanda Keller: "With Jonesy I fight far more than I do with my husband."
Amanda Keller talks about how she tackles early mornings as the host of WSFM's breakfast radio show, being the first female presenter to be inducted i...