Amber Wilson is an award-winning court and in-depth reporter. She joined the Mercury in 2019 after three years covering Melbourne courts with Australian Associated Press, covering cases including the Bourke Street massacre, the Rebel Wilson defamation saga, the murder of Eurydice Dixon and several terrorism cases. She has more than a decade’s experience in newsrooms in Hobart, Melbourne, Ballarat, Burnie and Glasgow, and in 2021 was named the joint Tasmanian Journalist of the Year for her exposés into historic child sexual abuse in Tasmanian state schools.