John Lyons (journalist)

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John Lyons (born 1961) is an Australian journalist. He has been the Executive Editor of ABC News and Head of Investigative Journalism for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation since 2017. He was previously associate editor (digital) and a senior reporter at The Australian , 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. [1] [2] [3]

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He is a three-time Walkley Award winner: in 1999 for Commentary, Analysis, Opinion & Critique, for his national affairs reporting for The Bulletin , in 2001 for Broadcast Interviewing for his television interviews on the Sunday program, and in 2014 for Investigative Journalism as part of a Four Corners team's reporting on the Israeli military's treatment of Palestinian children. [4] [5] He also won the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award in 1999 for his work with The Bulletin. [3]

In 2017 his memoir, Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir, was published by HarperCollins. [6]

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. [7]

Lyons' book Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s Toughest Assignment was published by Monash University Publishing in 2021. [8] [9] [10]

Personal life

Lyons was born in 1961. [11] He is married to Sylvie Le Clezio and has one son. [12] Lyons lives in Sydney. [13]

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  1. ↑ "John Lyons quitting The Australian to replace Bruce Belsham at ABC News". MediaWeek. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "AFP requested fingerprints of ABC journalists". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 15 July 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Top journalists join our team". The Australian. 21 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Walkley Winners Archive". Walkley Awards. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  5. ↑ "Stone Cold Justice". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  6. ↑ Lyons, John; Le Clézio, Sylvie. Balcony over Jerusalem. Sydney, N.S.W. ISBN   978-1-4607-5256-2. OCLC   981761413.
  7. ↑ "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.
  8. ↑ Lyons, John (2021). Dateline Jerusalem : Journalism's Toughest Assignment (Paperback ed.). Clayton, VIC: Monash University Press. ISBN   9781922464842 . Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  9. ↑ Sprusansky, Dale (April 2022). "Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism's Toughest Assignment". WRMEA. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  10. ↑ Loewenstein, Antony (4 April 2022). "Who Deserves To Be Boycotted? | Anthony Loewenstein on John Lyons". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  11. ↑ "Lyons, John (1961-)". Trove: National Library of Australia. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  12. ↑ "Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir". HarperCollins Australia. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  13. ↑ "Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism's Toughest Assignment". Monash University Publishing. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
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