Dennis Atkins is a journalist based in Brisbane, Australia. Atkins has worked for a number of media outlets, including Melbourne's News-Sun Pictorial and Brisbane's Courier-Mail. He worked in the Canberra press gallery in the 1980s and from 2000 to 2005, the latter period as national political editor for The Courier-Mail.[1] In 1993, as chief media adviser to Labor Party Premier Wayne Goss, Atkins became embroiled in the Cape Melville affair, though a Criminal Justice Commission investigation later cleared him of wrongdoing.[2]
Atkins was national affairs editor at The Courier-Mail until July 2019 and has been a regular panelist on Insiders, a panel discussion program on ABC Television. He is currently a freelance writer and critic based in Brisbane, and co-host of the podcast Two Grumpy Hacks with Malcolm Farr.
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edit- ^ "About Us". www.abc.net.au. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
- ^ Conley, David; Turner, Geoff. "Cape Melville affair coverage: what is news?" (PDF). Australian Studies in Journalism: 139–141. Retrieved 25 July 2019.