Inside outsider

From bikie gangs to prison: Vice writer Mahmood Fazal has seen the underbelly and is now on a mission to advocate for the voices we don’t hear.

Ben Taub on ‘The Spy Who Came Home’

An interview with the New Yorker staff writer about his most recent piece for the magazine

Filmmaking brings a new voice from Manus

Behrouz Boochani has been the voice of detainees on Manus Island for five long years, but he feels journalism can only tell part of the story. A new film has…

What a church is worth

Ben Schneiders, Royce Millar and Chris Vedelago tell the story of how for six months The Age worked through a maze of data and legal and political obstacles to lay bare the riches…

Welcome to the machine

Even before the Espionage Bill was introduced to parliament, Australia was well down the path of legislating prison terms for journalists reporting in the public interest.

The story behind the story

To investigate the stories of asylum seekers is to walk a very fine ethical line, balancing the needs of traumatised interview subjects with that of the wider public interest…

High season

One political issue engages VICE ’s audience without fail: drugs. Here’s how we used a series of stories on drug law reform to engage readers around broader political issues such as racism…

Why would anyone want to help journalism?

Quentin Dempster AM’s speech from the inaugural Walkley Fund for Journalism Dinner

World Press Freedom Index shows increasing hatred towards journalists

The latest Reporters Without Borders report reveals political leaders worldwide are openly encouraging animosity towards journalists.

On a fast toboggan to China

A dispatch from the Australia-China Media Exchange