John Lyons (journalist)

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John Lyons (born 1961) is an Australian journalist. As of May 2025 Lyons is Americas Editor at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, having previously been its Global Affairs Editor.

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Early life and education

John Lyons was born in 1961. [1]

Career

Lyons was editor of the Sydney Morning Herald , executive producer of the Sunday program on the Nine Network, and a foreign correspondent in the United States and Israel. [2]

He was associate editor (digital) and a senior reporter at The Australian , before being appointed executive editor of ABC News and head of investigative journalism for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2017. [2] [3] [4]

On 5 June 2019 Lyons live-tweeted when the Australian Federal Police raided the Sydney office of the ABC, the day after their raid on the home of Annika Smethurst. He reported that they had downloaded 9214 documents which then had to be assessed in terms of the warrant issued. [5]

Lyons became Americas Editor at the ABC in March 2025, after having been its Global Affairs Editor. [6]

Awards

Lyons won the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award in 1999 for his work with The Bulletin. [4]

Lyons has won the following Walkley Awards:

In August 2024, at the Kennedy Awards for Outstanding Journalism, Lyons won the Journalist of the Year award, as well as Outstanding Team Player or Mentor and Outstanding Feature Writing awards, for his reporting from the Middle East. [9]

Books

In 2017 his memoir, Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir, was published by HarperCollins. [10]

Lyons' book Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism's Toughest Assignment was published by Monash University Publishing in 2021. [11] [12] [13]

A Bunker in Kyiv: The Astonishing Story of the People's Army Defying Putin was published by HarperCollins Australia in April 2025. [14]

Personal life

Lyons married Sylvie Le Clezio and they have one son. [15] They live in Sydney. [16]

References

  1. ↑ "Lyons, John (1961-)". Trove: National Library of Australia. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  2. 1 2 "John Lyons quitting The Australian to replace Bruce Belsham at ABC News". MediaWeek . 16 August 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  3. ↑ Lyons, John (15 July 2019). "AFP requested fingerprints of ABC journalists" (audio (7 min.)). ABC Radio National . RN Drive. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Top journalists join our team". The Australian. 21 July 2017.
  5. ↑ "I live-tweeted the raids on the ABC — and it was a first for the AFP". ABC News. 8 June 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  6. ↑ Meade, Amanda (7 May 2025). "Laura Tingle moves from political editor of 7.30 to global affairs role at ABC". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  7. 1 2 3 "Walkley Winners Archive". Walkley Awards. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  8. ↑ "Stone Cold Justice". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  9. ↑ Hilton, Aoife (17 August 2024). "John Lyons named Journalist of the Year at 2024 Kennedy Awards". ABC News. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  10. ↑ Lyons, John; Le Clézio, Sylvie (2017). Balcony over Jerusalem. Sydney, N.S.W. ISBN   978-1-4607-5256-2. OCLC   981761413.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  11. ↑ Lyons, John (2021). Dateline Jerusalem : Journalism's Toughest Assignment (Paperback ed.). Clayton, VIC: Monash University Press. ISBN   9781922464842 . Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  12. ↑ Sprusansky, Dale (April 2022). "Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism's Toughest Assignment". WRMEA. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  13. ↑ Loewenstein, Antony (4 April 2022). "Who Deserves To Be Boycotted? | Anthony Loewenstein on John Lyons". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  14. ↑ Lyons, John; Le Clézio, Sylvie (April 2025). A Bunker in Kyiv. ISBN   9780733343490.
  15. ↑ "Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir". HarperCollins Australia. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  16. ↑ "Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism's Toughest Assignment". Monash University Publishing. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
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