Richard Ackland
Richard Ackland is an Australian journalist, publisher and lawyer, who has won many awards for his reporting.
Ackland graduated with degrees in Economics and Law in the early 1970's and was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales before going on to pursue a career in journalism.
Career
Ackland initially worked in the financial press and was appointed the Canberra correspondent for the Australian Financial Review during the 1970's.
in 1986, he founded his law publishing company, Law Press of Australia, and since then has continued to be the publisher of two important Australian legal journals, Justinian and the Gazette of Law and Journalism.[1]
Moving to the ABC in the 1980's, Ackland was appointed the host Late Night Live on ABC Radio National. Subsequently he was host of the ABC Radio National breakfast program, Daybreak. [2]
From 1998 to 1998, Ackland was the presenter of the ABC-TV show Media Watch (TV program). During this time, he was awarded a Gold Walkley (Australian journalism's most prestigious award) together with colleagues Deborah Richards and Anne Connolly, for their expose of the notorious Cash for comment affair.
Ackland is currently the Legal Columnist for Fairfax Media and continues to edit and publish the online journal Justinian. [3].
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