Paul McGeough, David Marr and Chloe Hooper discuss the long road from news event through in-depth reportage to non-fiction book, the potholes that can complicate the journey and the outcomes that can transform reportage into enduring literary journalism. Introduced by Susie Eisenhuth from UTS Journalism.
CHLOE HOOPER (LOCAL) CHLOE HOOPER’s The Tall Man is her second book and has been published widely to much success. It tells the tragic story of Cameron Doomadgee’s death in the Palm Island police station and the subsequent trial of Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley. Chloe’s early articles on Palm Island written for The Monthly magazine won a Walkley Award. Chloe’s first novel, A Child’s Book of True Crime, was published in many languages. It was a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
PAUL MCGEOUGH (LOCAL) PAUL McGEOUGH is the author of In Baghdad: A Reporter's War and Manhattan to Baghdad: Despatches From the Frontline in the War on Terror. Paul’s many domestic and international journalism awards attest to his position as Australia's most prominent foreign correspondent. He has twice been named Australian Journalist of the Year, and in 2002 his reporting from Afghanistan was acknowledged by the awarding of a Johns Hopkins University-based SAIS Novartis prize for excellence in international journalism. His latest book Kill Khalid is the incredible true story of the attempted assassination of Palestinian Khalid Mishal.
DAVID MARR (LOCAL) DAVID MARR is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist. David is the author of several books including The Henson Case, which focused on the controversy surrounding the photographic images of artist Bill Henson, Dark Victory, co-authored with Marian Wilkinson, Patrick White: A Life and the Quarterly Essay 'His Master’s Voice: The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard’.
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