Matt Brown
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Biography
Publications
Matt Brown is the ABC’s Middle East Correspondent, based in Beirut. He is also a visiting fellow at the Australian National University’s Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs and holds a BA (Communications) from the University of Technology, Sydney. He won the 2017 Lowy Institute Media Award for a series of stories on the battle against the Islamic State group in Mosul and is a four time Walkley Award winner.
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Old school reporting still a winner
Despite the joys of connectivity, nothing substitutes for simply being there; for having the time and money to go into the field.