Australian Outlook

In this section

Life as a Middle East Correspondent

10 Oct 2018
By Matt Brown and Peter Bateman
Matt Brown at Naim square in Raqqa, 19 December 2017 (Credit: Twitter @abcmatt)

This episode of AIIA VIC’s Dyason House Podcast features the experience of four-time Walkley Award winner, Matt Brown, in his journalism in the Middle East.

It is important to have a good grounding in a range of different reporting formats and have exposure to different types of journalistic investigations. Political reporting is very useful due to the high level of scrutiny on your reports. Key elements to success include curiosity, resourcefulness, perseverance and some modicum of story-telling to focus on what people are going to find interesting.

Matt Brown is the former ABC Middle East correspondent and a four-time Walkley Award winner for his journalism.

Interviewed by Peter Bateman.

Related Articles

Iranian women protest during the 1979 revolution. Source: Wikimedia

The Legacies of the Iranian Revolution at 40

By Haleh Esfandiari
11 February 2019

Forty years since the Islamic revolution in Iran, the country’s people are tired of the regime’s never-ending revolutionary fervour.
Session 8 (G7 + Ukraine) (Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima). Source: Host photographer, G& /https://bit.ly/422ohbT

The Controversy Around AUKUS Shows that Investigative Journalism Needs a Strong Revival

By Colin Chapman FAIIA
26 May 2023

There is a much needed to debate to be had on energy security and, as a result, high ticket items such as the AUKUS submarines. Australia's media conglomerates need to do more to ensure journalism remains a gateway to such debates. 
Turkish President Erdogan questions about the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, 26 October (Credit: Twitter @enveryan)

A Convenient Murder: Khashoggi and Saudi-Turkish-US Relations

By Dr Bruce Mabley
30 October 2018

Jamal Khashoggi’s murder has shifted US focus away from Ankara’s poor treatment of journalists and allowed Turkey to take the offensive to an embattled Saudi regime.