James Campbell is the national politics editor at the ''

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'' newspaper in Melbourne and a regular commentator on

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. He has also written for ''

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'', ''

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'' newspaper in London, ''

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'' website, ''

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'' and the

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Review. He also reported for the BBC on the 2013 Australian federal election.

Early life and career

He attended

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. In the 1980s, he also appeared as an extra in Australian television series ''

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'' and alongside Dame Joan Sutherland in an Australian production of the opera ''

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''. Prior to becoming a journalist, Campbell worked as a Liberal staffer, advising Helen Shardey, the Victorian Shadow Minister for Health at the time.

Career

In 2010, Campbell won the Grant Hattam Quill Award for Investigative Journalism in any Medium from the

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for a story about the conduct of the Victorian

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Jeremy Rapke that led to his resignation. In 2013, he became the ''Herald Sun'' and ''Sunday Herald Sun'''s political editor and broke a story based on secret tapes discussing highly sensitive political matters that he says led to the sudden resignation of Victorian Premier

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. Campbell subsequently won the 2013 Monash University Gold Quill and the Walkley Foundation's 2013 "Scoop of the Year" for the story.

References

External links

James Campbell on Twitter
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