Notes from the Newsroom
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‘What I’ll remember about 2022’: our foreign correspondents look back on the year
Our foreign correspondents have covered arguably the world’s biggest stories of the year. Here they look back on 2022.
‘I’m told that my photo is on the wall of many professional kitchens’
After a three-year hiatus, The Age Good Food Guide returned this week with hats and scores. In this subscriber exclusive, Roslyn Grundy, editor of the latest edition of the guide, reflects on her three decades of food reviewing, explains how a restaurant is judged to earn its hats and shares highlights from the 2023 awards.
- by Roslyn Grundy
Behind the scenes: exposing the downside of a celebrity surgeon’s practice
When a six-month secondment with The Age’s investigations team came up, journalist Charlotte Grieve jumped at the opportunity to be a part of a team with such a large impact. A simple conversation with her father sparked her first major investigation into surgeon Munjed Al Muderis. She soon discovered that everyone had a story on Al Muderis.
- by Charlotte Grieve
A day in the life of national news blogger Broede Carmody
Broede Carmody has led our national news live blog since May last year. Here he gives us some insight into a typical day manning one of the most popular features on our homepages.
- by Broede Carmody
Behind the scenes: Aisha Dow on The Age’s triple-zero investigation
Early this year, I did something I’ve rarely, if ever, done during my time as a journalist. I messaged some of my family and told them something about a story that wasn’t ready to be published.
- by Aisha Dow
What’s made headlines so far in 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a new Australian government, the sudden death of a cricket legend... Having just passed the halfway point, we look back on how we’ve reported on some of the biggest news events of the year.
- by Orietta Guerrera
Behind the scenes: Investigating the 2022 Lismore floods disaster
Earlier this year the biggest flood in recorded history hit Lismore and its surrounding region. Our visual stories team and senior news reporters pieced together the events leading up to the disaster, ultimately revealing authority failures and missteps. Data journalist Pallavi Singhal explains how the ‘Lismore deadly deluge’ project was produced.
- by Pallavi Singhal
Behind the scenes: Reporting from the frontline in Ukraine
National security correspondent Anthony Galloway spent 21 days in Ukraine with photojournalist Kate Geraghty in the early weeks of Russia’s invasion. Here, he writes about the preparation that goes into such an assignment and the importance of telling the stories of the people whose once ordinary lives have been shattered.
- by Anthony Galloway
Behind the scenes with Enough hosts Sophie Aubrey, Jewel Topsfield
Sophie Aubrey and Jewel Topsfield are hosts of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald’s latest podcast, Enough. Here they talk about how the podcast came about, introduce some of the young people who opened up about their experiences of mental illness and discuss what readers/listeners can expect from the rest of the series.
- by Orietta Guerrera
Behind the scenes with cartoonist Matt Golding
In this subscriber-exclusive, Matt Golding writes about where he gets his inspiration from, how he keeps up with the fast-moving news cycle and his process of creating award-winning cartoons.
- by Matt Golding
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