Alex Mann
@alexsmann
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Journalist. Reporter and co-host of #Firebomb #UnravelTrueCrime #TheEleventhPodcast. Signal on request.
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined June 2009
Episode One of #Firebomb is out now! Brand new true crime series from @ABCaustralia about a dark and scarcely believable chapter of Australia's past... When neo-Nazis unleashed a terror campaign on the Asian community of Perth. https://t.co/zI9Vu2bwfT
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Podcast Episode · Unravel · S5 E1 · 26m
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An amazing weekend for Murdoch-ologists with revelatory reporting in @nytimes and @TheAtlantic ... my analysis of what we've learned is here: @crikey_news
crikey.com.au
'You are completely disenfranchising me and my siblings. You’ve blown a hole in the family.'
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@newscorpaus accounts for 2023-24 filed today look interesting: slumped from a $17.9m profit to a $43.3m loss after tax ... worse than I thought tbh and a different picture than emerges from the parent accounts which still show the news media division is profitable globally
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Out now! In which Lachlan Murdoch's politics harden from 'soft left' in his 20s to pro-Trump by the 2020 election, when he proves that if push comes to shove he is willing to put the profitability of Fox News above all else. That's why he's #thesuccessor
abc.net.au
For much of his youth, Lachlan Murdoch seemed ambivalent about being next in line to control the family’s global media empire. So why is his father Rupert now fighting a high stakes battle against...
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NEW: In my last story for ABC, I made an episode for Days Like These about the famous Chinatown restaurateur - known for playing the violin in his shop - about why he decides to sell his business and go all in on violin at the age of 75. https://t.co/HCdeZtPkGr
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Podcast Episode · Days Like These · 20/08/2024 · 30m
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Convicted neo-Nazi (of banned Nazi organisation ‘National Action’) who spent six years in prison for far-right terrorism present at Southport riots. Reporting by @DdesimoneDaniel.
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🩸New article by @awinston and me, looking into FBI informant and militant far-right occultist Joshua Caleb Sutter (of the O9A US nexion ‘Tempel ov Blood’). We discovered he was connected to US authorities longer than anyone knew. Read to the end.
wired.com
Joshua Caleb Sutter infiltrated far-right extremist organizations as a confidential FBI informant, all while promoting hateful ideologies that influenced some of the internet's most violent groups.
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"Social media brought out the worst in the news business, and news, in turn, brought out the worst in a lot of social media." —@cwarzel Good capsule description of what has happened in this space since 2010. (And I live, breathe and teach this subject...)
theatlantic.com
Big Tech’s relationship with journalism is much more complicated than it appears.
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Significant group of more than 30 First Nations figures, community service organisations and eminent legal identity Margaret McMurdo call for the resignation of embattled Queensland police union president Ian Leavers.
brisbanetimes.com.au
While representing many of the state’s police officers, questions have been raised over just how representative Ian Leavers’ latest inflammatory comments are.
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Hey, fans of the podcast Trump, Inc.: You can listen to "We Don't Talk About Leonard," @ilyamarritz & my new podcast/radio show with @onthemedia and @propublica on the Trump, Inc. feed... https://t.co/qlCVf11RZ8
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Podcast Episode · Trump, Inc. · 09/29/2023 · 52m
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1/ it's an awful day at WNYC, my work home for 20 yrs lots of talent cut esp at WNYC Studios, which is (was) the place to develop new podcasts and talent
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“Racism is pointless but not harmless.”The undercurrent of racism in Australian society & the rise of neo-nationalism is not new. Great podcast by Crispian Chan & @alexsmann Have a listen.
abc.net.au
Blood on the Tracks' is the latest season of Unravel, the ABC's award-winning true crime podcast. After explosive new developments in the case, this podcast — first released in 2018 — has been...
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A powerful & punishing podcast recounts a dark chapter in Perth's history through the eyes of Chrispian Chan whose parents' Chinese restaurant was firebombed by a neo-Nazi cadre led by the bloke on the left, the son of an Indonesian-Dutch father. https://t.co/lGKrxhyXu1
abc.net.au
Crispian Chan was eight when his family's Chinese restaurant was firebombed by a neo-Nazi group. As an adult, he set out to track their leader down.
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Just started listening to Unravel: Firebomb yesterday. It’s amazing, horrific and also unsurprising. I remember hearing stories of racism like this (east coast, not Perth) when I was young, but nothing as full on and laid out like this before. @alexsmann
abc.net.au
Blood on the Tracks' is the latest season of Unravel, the ABC's award-winning true crime podcast. After explosive new developments in the case, this podcast — first released in 2018 — has been...
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Stoked that our podcast Who’s Gonna Save Us has been recognised internationally for our climate reporting 💚 #climatechangeseverything
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A slate of new books consider how far-right extremism has—and hasn’t—changed since Donald Trump’s Presidency.
newyorker.com
Does the far-right extremism of the Trump era represent an eternal pattern in American politics or a new one?
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