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The Godfather: Peter Corris on Evan Whitton

The Godfather: Peter Corris on Evan Whitton

by NRB | 20 Jul 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

Evan Whitton, who died this week aged 90, was editor of the National Times when I worked at the paper in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The winner of five Walkley Awards for investigative journalism and the Graham Perkins Journalist of the Year Award for his coverage...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on Evan Whitton

The Godfather: Peter Corris on Peter FitzSimons

by NRB | 20 Apr 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

I met Peter FitzSimons at a television studio in Wollongong. He was promoting his biography of Les Darcy and I was spruiking whatever Cliff Hardy had appeared that year. Never interested in rugby and not a reader of Sunday newspapers, I was only dimly aware of who he...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on Dominick Dunne

The Godfather: Peter Corris on Dominick Dunne

by NRB | 22 May 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

‘Write what you know’ is often good advice for would-be scribblers. Not much help if you don’t know anything, of course, but it certainly fitted the bill for American journalist, author and television presenter Dominick Dunne. Dunne was born into a wealthy New...
             

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