Melbourne

  • Behind the Story

    Mar 1 2005

    Close Encounters

    By Gary Tippet

    In February 1972, I was 18 years old, a couple of months out of high school and beginning a cadetship at the now-dead Sun News Pictorial in Melbourne. It was my first week at the paper and I had been sent for the day to watch police rounds at work.

  • Behind the Story

    Mar 1 2005

    The Emotional Toll of Disaster Reporting

    By Kimina Lyall

    Nine years ago, soon after I joined The Australian, I was sent to Port Arthur to cover the massacre of 35 people by gunman Martin Bryant.

  • Behind the Story

    First Dead Body

    By Peter Drought

    A fellow camera operator at work came to me the other day and told me he had just seen, and then filmed, his first dead body.

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