James Campbell | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | Melbourne Grammar School |
| Spouse | Roshena Campbell |
James Campbell is the national politics editor at the Herald Sun newspaper in Melbourne and a regular commentator on Sky News Australia. He has also written for The Age , The Times newspaper in London, The Punch website, The Spectator and the Institute of Public Affairs Review. [1] He also reported for the BBC on the 2013 Australian federal election. [2]
He attended Melbourne Grammar School. [3] In the 1980s, he also appeared as an extra in Australian television series Neighbours and alongside Dame Joan Sutherland in an Australian production of the opera Lucia di Lammermoor .
Prior to becoming a journalist, Campbell worked as a Liberal staffer, advising Helen Shardey, the Victorian Shadow Minister for Health at the time. [4]
In 2010, Campbell won the Grant Hattam Quill Award for Investigative Journalism in any Medium from the Melbourne Press Club for a story about the conduct of the Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Rapke that led to his resignation. [5]
In 2013, he became the Herald Sun and Sunday Herald Sun's political editor and broke a story based on secret tapes discussing highly sensitive political matters that he says led to the sudden resignation of Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu. [6] Campbell subsequently won the 2013 Monash University Gold Quill and the Walkley Foundation's 2013 "Scoop of the Year" for the story. [7] [8]
Campbell is married to Roshena Campbell, a City of Melbourne councilor and former Liberal parliamentary candidate. [9]