Australian journalist
Linton Besser is an Australian journalist, who has won multiple awards for investigative reporting. He is to be the host of "Media Watch" from 2025.
Career.
In 2003, Besser began his media career as a producer for morning TV program "Today". Then, after a stint at rural and regional papers, he moved to the "Sydney Morning Herald" in 2007. While there, he won a 2010 Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism for his story "The Wrong Stuff", on misspending by the Department of Defence; and (with Kate McClymont) a Walkley and a George Munster Award for the 2012 investigative series "The Obeid family business", followed by a 2013 Kennedy Award for Scoop of the Year. The pair released the best-selling book "He Who must Be Obeid" in 2014; its first print run was pulped due to incorrectly identifying one person as another. The book was a finalist at the 2015 Ned Kelly Awards.
Having moved to the ABC in 2013, he reported for "Four Corners" between 2014 and 2018. During his tenure, he won a second Kennedy Award in 2014 for Outstanding Consumer Affairs Reporting with Janine Cohen and Mario Christodoulou, and a 2016 Walkley Television/Audio Visual Current Affairs Award for "State of Fear", along with cinematographer Louie Eroglu, producer Jaya Balendra and researcher Elise Worthington. During that investigation, Besser and Eroglu were arrested in Malaysia for trying to question Prime Minister Najib Razak over the 1MDB scandal, but were released without charge several days later.
From 2018 until 2021 he was the ABC's Europe Correspondent, after which he returned to providing investigative reporting for ABC News including programs "7.30", AM, and "Four Corners". He won a fourth Walkley, for Business Journalism with Ninah Kopel for reports on problems with the strata management industry.
From 2025 he is to be the host of the ABC's "Media Watch" program.
Personal life.
Besser's parents are Anne and Mike Besser. They are Jewish. He was educated at Moriah College. As of 2013[ [update]], he was married with two children.
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