FROM BIKIES TO PRIME MINISTERS: 25 YEARS OF WHAT THE REPORTER SAW

Breakfast, 7.15am, Wednesday 17th May

Ben Harvey, journalist

As a crime journalist, political editor, business editor and now chief reporter, The West Australian’s Ben Harvey hasn’t quite seen it all – but he’s been there for a lot of it.

Ben wrote his first new report in 1998, bashing it out on an Olivetti typewriter. Five thousand news stories later (death-threats notwithstanding) he still loves his job.

During that time, Ben has been at the coal-face of massive change in the way media communicates news.

He has watched newsrooms evolve and was an unwitting witness to the Murdoch newspapers’  phone hacking scandal in Britain when he was working for the red-top tabloids of London.

Join Ben for an insider’s guide on how modern media works and how the profession of journalism has changed over the past three decades – mixed with some behind-the-scenes memories of the characters who drove key news events.