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The Truth Teller
Set in the frenetic world of the newsroom of a daily paper, where everything is public and ambiguity is not allowed, this is the story of three ambitious cadet journalists, all looking to make their mark. A novel about secrets and their revelation, public and private lives, the exercise of power, and men's ambivalence towards women.
271 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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Margaret Simons
26 books21 followersMargaret Simons (b 1960) is an Australian academic, freelance journalist and author. She is currently the media commentator for Crikey and has written ten books.
She is currently Director of the Centre for Advanced Journalism at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Melbourne.
Simons was a finalist for a Walkley Award for journalism in 2007 for the story Buried in the Labyrinth, about the release of a pedophile into the community, published in Griffith Review and her book The Content Makers – Understanding the Future of the Australian Media was longlisted for the 2008 non-fiction book Walkley award.
Simons also writes for The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Monthly. For many years, she wrote the "Earthmother" gardening column for The Australian.
Simons has a doctorate from the University of Technology, Sydney and was co-founder, with Melissa Sweet, of the community-funded news site YouComm News. She lives in Melbourne.
(from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...)
She is currently Director of the Centre for Advanced Journalism at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Melbourne.
Simons was a finalist for a Walkley Award for journalism in 2007 for the story Buried in the Labyrinth, about the release of a pedophile into the community, published in Griffith Review and her book The Content Makers – Understanding the Future of the Australian Media was longlisted for the 2008 non-fiction book Walkley award.
Simons also writes for The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Monthly. For many years, she wrote the "Earthmother" gardening column for The Australian.
Simons has a doctorate from the University of Technology, Sydney and was co-founder, with Melissa Sweet, of the community-funded news site YouComm News. She lives in Melbourne.
(from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...)
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March 18, 2020
A Walkley Award–winning journalist, Margaret Simons isn’t known for her fiction. Yet The Truth Teller (1996), her second and last novel, is a witty and compelling investigation of how the personal inevitably intersects with the political. The image of the flabby naked bloke with his back turned on the front cover doesn’t do Simons’s fearlessness justice. Though the world of journalism has changed since this novel was published, little if anything has changed in human nature, and Simons’s insights into relationships still resonate.
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