NT News Editor Matt Williams: “I love crocodile stories… I’m less obsessed with aliens and UFOs than my previous counterparts”
The Northern Territory News is a tabloid paper which has grown a global reputation for it’s quirky coverage of life in Australia’s north. Editor Matt Williams speaks to Stephen Brook about some of the publication’s outrageous cover stories, how he balances the hunger for gags with serious journalistic ambitions, purchasing croc insurance for a US President, and the challenges of political coverage in small cities.
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Drama scriptwriter Bevan Lee: “I don’t think overall in Australian drama there tends to be enough emotion.”
Feature writer Trent Dalton: “They will size you up, and open that friggin door, and that’s a beautiful trust exercise.”
Anton Enus: “The apartheid masters did everything they could to exert pressure on the organisation to conform to the message they wanted to send out.”
Dan Box: “True Crime is so hot right now… I just wanted to reach across and slap him.”
Barrie Cassidy: “There are more partisan journalists (now) than there ever were in the past”
Michael Rowland: “I loathe this word chemistry, absolutely hate it. People talk about breakfast tv… or radio duo having chemistry. I just think it’s pretty artificial.”
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