Margaret Simons

Margaret Simons (b 1960) is an Australian academic, freelance journalist and author. She is currently the media commentator for Crikey^[1] and has written ten books.

Career

Simons was nominated 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 PhD from the University of Technology, Sydney^[2] and was co-founder, with Melissa Sweet, of the community-funded news site YouComm News.^[3] She lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.

Articles

• Duty of Care, August 2010, The Monthly
• Buried in the Labyrinth

Bibliography

• The ruthless garden Port Melbourne : Minerva, 1993

• The truth teller Port Melbourne : Minerva, 1996

• Wheelbarrows, chooks & children : a gardener's life Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. : New Holland Publishing, 1999

• Fit to print : inside the Canberra Press Gallery Sydney : UNSW Press, 1999

• The meeting of the waters : the Hindmarsh Island affair Sydney : Hodder Headline : c2003

• Latham's world : the new politics of the outsiders Melbourne, Vic. : Black Inc., 2004

• The rich and fertile story of compost : resurrection in a bucket Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2004

• The content makers : understanding the media in Australia Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin Books, c2007

• Faith, money & power : what the religious revival means for politics North Melbourne, Vic. : Pluto Press Australia, 2007

• Malcolm Fraser : the political memoirs (with Malcolm Fraser) Carlton, Vic. : The Miegunyah Press, 2010

References

1. ^ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/
2. ^ http://www.themetacentre.com.au/?page_id=60
3. ^ http://youcommnews.com/pages/about

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