Name Ben Hills | Role Journalist | |
Books Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne, Japan behind the lines | ||
Fairfax media author ben hills on the death of fairfax
Ben Hills is a Walkley Award winning Australian freelance journalist and author.
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Early Life and career
Hills was born in the UK and migrated with his family to Australia in 1959. He worked on various regional newspapers before being hired as an investigative reporter by The Age in Melbourne in 1969. He worked for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald as a London-based foreign correspondent in the mid-1970s then as a Hong-Kong based publisher during the 1980s. Returning to Melbourne, Hills became assistant editor of the Age. He spent four years as a producer for 60 Minutes. Hills became the Fairfax Japan correspondent from 1992 to 1995 and now lives in Sydney. He has written six books and since leaving Fairfax has worked as a freelancer for the ethnic TV station SBS and other media outlets.