Ben Hills

Ben Hills is a Walkley Award winning Australian freelance journalist and author.

Early Life and career

Hills was born in the UK and migrated with his family to Australia in 1959. He worked in 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 with his wife, Japanese photographer Mayu Kanamori. There is more information on his website, benhills.com.

Awards

• 1991 - Walkley Award for investigative reporting
• 1989 - Highly Commended, Graham Perkin Australian journalist of the year award

Bibliography

• Breaking news : the golden age of Graham Perkin Scribe, Melbourne 2010. About Australian journalist Graham Perkin.
• The island of the ancients : the secrets of Sardinia's Centenarians Murdoch Books, Sydney 2008
• Princess Masako : prisoner of the chrysanthemum throne Tarcher/Penguin, New York 2006
• Japan behind the lines Sydney : Hodder Headline, Melbourne 1996
• Blue murder : two thousand doomed to die, the shocking truth about Wittenoom's deadly dust Sun Books, Melbourne 1989

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