He was born Hamish Watson, a surfie dude from Sydney – but he could morph into whatever you needed him to be. Hamish is due to be sentenced to jail in early 2019 for swindling a handful of victims out of more than $7m. But these crimes are just the final pages in a resume too thick to staple; for decades he’s duped victims in the US, Canada, Britain, Hong Kong and Australia. How did he do it? How did he evade authorities around the world for so long and what’s he done with all those tens of ...
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Media after the Arab Spring: Lina Attalah and Peter Greste [Conversations from Storyology]
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“This is an unprecedented moment of restriction for us as journalists - and people in general in Egypt,” says Lina Attalah. She and other journalists founded an independent online news outlet, Mada Masr, in the wake of the Arab Spring. But in these turbulent times, it hasn’t been easy. At Storyology, we paired her up with Peter Greste, the journalist who came to Egypt in 2013 for a “very vanilla” story and found himself imprisoned on trumped-up charges of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood. Conversations from Storyology is a miniseries in the WalkleyTalks podcast, produced by Kate Golden for the Walkley Foundation with help from 2SER in Sydney, Australia. This episode was edited by Ninah Kopel. Music is “Puzzle Pieces” by Lee Rosevere. Subscribe to the Walkleys newsletter at walkleys.com/subscribe.
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“This is an unprecedented moment of restriction for us as journalists - and people in general in Egypt,” says Lina Attalah. She and other journalists founded an independent online news outlet, Mada Masr, in the wake of the Arab Spring. But in these turbulent times, it hasn’t been easy. At Storyology, we paired her up with Peter Greste, the journalist who came to Egypt in 2013 for a “very vanilla” story and found himself imprisoned on trumped-up charges of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood. Conversations from Storyology is a miniseries in the WalkleyTalks podcast, produced by Kate Golden for the Walkley Foundation with help from 2SER in Sydney, Australia. This episode was edited by Ninah Kopel. Music is “Puzzle Pieces” by Lee Rosevere. Subscribe to the Walkleys newsletter at walkleys.com/subscribe.
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