No intelligence system, no bureaucracy, can offer the information provided by competitive reporting; the cleverest secret agents of the police state are inferior to the plodding reporter of the democracy.
-- Harold Evans

Mitteleuropean Cheekbones: Sunday Diary of the Australian Dreams & Dreamers

The viewers Down Under are aware that Jana Wendt knows how to put flesh on stories. Like Jana, I started to report for work in Sydney in 1982. While I began reporting for duties at the NSW Parliament House, Jana made history at Nine Network’s 60 Minutes as its youngest ever, and first female reporter. Her interviews during her initial six years with 60 Minutes included Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in exile in Hawaii, Libyan leader, Muammar Ghaddafi and black American Islamist leader, Louis Farrakhan and Ghanaian leader, Jerry Rawlings.
Fifteen years later, more confident, attractive, and determined, Jana lifted the curtain on czech-book (sic) journalism and reopened the debate on mediaethics. Ironically, the compelling speech took place in the Strangers Dining Room at NSW Parliament House few weeks after I entered Czech and Slovak soil for the first time in 17 years.
There are only a handful of journalists who make you believe that journalism is really worth dying for and Jana seems tobe one of them.
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