Kate McClymont
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Kate McClymont is an investigative journalist, currently reporting on the Independent Commission Against Corruption for the Sydney Morning Herald. In the late 1980s, McClymont worked for two years as a junior reporter on Four Corners.[1] In 2002, she won a Gold Walkley, an investigative journalism award, with Anne Davies for coverage of a rugby league salary cap scandal associated with the Canterbury Bulldogs.[2] She presented the 2014 Andrew Olle Media Lecture.[3] She is the co-author, with Linton Besser, of He who must be Obeid,[4] an unauthorised biography of former NSW Minister Eddie Obeid.
McClymont was successfully sued for defamation by former Macquarie Bank executive Bill Moss for A$49,000 plus legal costs. According to The Australian the judge said "The particular chapter in which Mr Moss is featured is headed The Bagman, evidently a reference to Mr (Eddie) Obeid’s role in an attempt to bribe the NSW Labor government in circumstances where the approval of poker machines was a central requirement of the success of a development proposal backed by Mr Obeid,” “Many other characters in the book come in for similar treatment to that involved in the discussion of Mr Moss. That is, there is a collection of statements which, while not openly attributing dishonesty or corruption to those persons, convey those notions in the careful language of insinuation and scepticism.”[5]
References
- ^ Dawson, Matt (7 November 2013). "Methods of an unassuming sleuth". Reportage Online. Archived from the original on 14 September 2015.
- ^ World News Australia, Past Gold Walkley Award Winners
- ^ "Kate McClymont to present the 2014 Andrew Olle Media Lecture". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 29 October 2014. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
- ^ McClymont, Kate; Besser, Linton (2014). He who must be Obeid. Random House. ISBN 9780857984357.
- ^ Markson, Sharri (24 October 2013). "Bill Moss in $49k defamation win against Fairfax's Kate McClymont". The Australian.
External links
- McClymont, Kate (4 May 2013). "Where angels fear to tread". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014.
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