Leigh Sales - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

This three-time Walkley award winner is the Anchor of one of the ABC's flagship television programs 7.30, presenting the current affairs show for a decade in one of Australia's most competitive work environments. And in this episode of The Journo Project, she still proudly introduces herself as a journalist first. Leigh Sales has just won the 2019 Walkley Book Award for Any Ordinary Day, with its intertwined stories of people enduring unimaginable tragedy selling more than 100,000 copies in Australia. As the Walkley judges said when awarding her Best Book, "In a writing world steeped in memoir, Leigh Sales turned her personal story into journalism." Hear her rallying call to journos and the public about never taking Australia's press freedom for granted.

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This three-time Walkley award winner is the Anchor of one of the ABC's flagship television programs 7.30, presenting the current affairs show for a decade in one of Australia's most competitive work environments. And in this episode of The Journo Project, she still proudly introduces herself as a journalist first. Leigh Sales has just won the 2019 Walkley Book Award for Any Ordinary Day, with its intertwined stories of people enduring unimaginable tragedy selling more than 100,000 copies in Australia. As the Walkley judges said when awarding her Best Book, "In a writing world steeped in memoir, Leigh Sales turned her personal story into journalism." Hear her rallying call to journos and the public about never taking Australia's press freedom for granted.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.