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True News Weekly is an Australian subscriber news website[ citation needed ] originally launched as True Crime News Weekly and published by PR 4 THE PPL PTY LTD.[ citation needed ] [1] It aims to cover breaking news, crime and corruption, politics, media, opinion, culture reviews, and historical true crime. It has been cited in Australia for its exclusives and investigations into political scandals, and has been noted for first breaking the notorious 'Barnaby Joyce Scandal' that resulted in Australian Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce being forced to resign as National Party of Australia leader in early 2018. [1] [2] [3]

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History

True News Weekly was launched originally as True Crime News Weekly in January 2017 by investigative journalist Serkan Ozturk, who remains its publisher. Gary Johnston is the publication's deputy editor. Originally launched as a free blog, the website became a subscriber news site in October 2018.[ citation needed ] As noted on the website,[ citation needed ] the site claims to be "inspired by the pulp fiction and noir of yesteryear" and regards itself to be progressive. In February 2024, the website relaunched as True News Weekly. [1]

Staff & Contributors

Contributors to True News Weekly include investigative journalist Serkan Ozturk[ citation needed ] academic and writer Gary Johnston[ citation needed ], novelist Miles Hunt[ citation needed ], activist and satirist Tom Tanuki[ citation needed ], comedian Kieran Butler[ citation needed ] author and essayist Irfan Yusuf [ citation needed ], and academic Therese Taylor[ citation needed ].

Notable Coverage

The Daily Telegraph was awarded a Walkley Award in 2018 for Scoop of the Year for their coverage of the 'Barnaby Joyce Scandal', however True News Weekly had first published stories about the scandal in October 2017, almost six months before the Daily Telegraph's articles. [1] [2] [3] In April 2019, True News Weekly claims to have been the first publication to reveal that controversial Nationals MP George Christensen had been visiting sex bars in seedy parts of the Philippines, almost eight months before the rest of the Australian media. [4]

Support & Criticism

There has been a challenge to Ozturk's claims about True News Weekly breaking the 'Barnaby Joyce Scandal' along with a general challenge to the rigour of his journalism, [5] however Ozturk claimed his original coverage in October 2017 had details ignored by critics including The Guardian's Amanda Meade in her article. Ozturk and True News Weekly have also received both support and criticism across wider media for their style of journalism. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "How (and why) an independent news site broke the Barnaby Joyce saga". Crikey. April 4, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Meet the publishers ripping up the Australian media playbook". Crikey. April 3, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Australian Scandal Season 1 Ep 1 Love Hurts, Watch TV Online" – via www.9now.com.au.
  4. ↑ "Fred Nile goes fire and brimstone (And other news you may have missed.)". Crikey. December 5, 2019.
  5. ↑ "PM attends Sky News 'housewarming' on night of annual family violence event | Weekly Beast". the Guardian. November 30, 2018.
  6. ↑ https://www.crikey.com.au/2018/04/04/media-mavericks-breaking-barnaby-story/
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