A Note From The Editor – 23 August
On Monday night, more than 500 loyal Sydney Morning Herald subscribers packed into the Seymour Centre to see investigative journalist Kate McClymont, Private Sydney columnist Andrew Hornery and I in conversation on the topic “When Gossip Makes News”. It was our biggest crowd yet for our monthly subscriber events, and seemed to be incredibly well received. I certainly haven’t heard more laughter at such an event, with both journalists poking fun at themselves, each other and, of course, some of their sources and stories over a combined 50 years in journalism.
Kate is a self-confessed “incorrigible gossip” and Andrew’s stock-in-trade is as a “gossip columnist” – but I thought a few things that emerged on Monday cast a fresh perspective on what “gossip” is, and why it isn’t such a dirty word.
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