04Journalism
A disclosed point of view.
Columns, essays and reporting on politics, media, race, religion, migration, free speech and the small absurdities that expose larger systems.
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Punched in the Headlines
A news-satire column punching through political panic and media melodrama to find out what is real, what is inflated and who has started yelling.
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Elsewhere in print.
Longer essays, cultural criticism and reported commentary published across Australian and international outlets.
The joke is not a substitute for evidence.
Sami’s journalism sits beside his work as a broadcaster and lecturer in journalism at the University of Melbourne. The same interests recur across formats: how power is narrated, how institutions protect themselves and how satire can remain funny without becoming careless.
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