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John Lyons

John Lyons is the Global Affairs Editor of the ABC. Previously, he was head of Investigative Journalism at the ABC, responsible for Four Corners7.30Foreign CorrespondentInsidersAustralian StoryQ&A and the Investigative Reporting Team. Over the past forty years, he has held leadership positions in several major organisations, including editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and executive producer of Nine’s Sunday program. For six years, John was The Australian’s Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem, an experience that led him to write the bestselling Balcony over Jerusalem. He has interviewed everyone from former Israeli prime ministers Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert to key figures from Hezbollah and Hamas. He has also worked as a New York and Washington correspondent. John has won many awards, including the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, four Walkleys—one for a Four Corners report on Israel’s military court—and UN awards. He now lives in Sydney.

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Today, trust seems harder to find than ever before. It’s hardly surprising we feel that way. Our politics is polarised, our online world is awash with misinformation, and we’ve lost...