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Melissa Cunningham
Melissa Cunningham is a multi-award-winning journalist based at The Age in Melbourne. She covered the coronavirus pandemic for more than three years as The Age’s health reporter th...view moreMelissa Cunningham is a multi-award-winning journalist based at The Age in Melbourne. She covered the coronavirus pandemic for more than three years as The Age’s health reporter through six lockdowns. Her news-breaking and investigative skills have been recognised by the Melbourne Press Club, which has awarded her two Quill awards for excellence in journalism. She was awarded for her extensive reporting on clergy and institutional sexual abuse in 2017, and won the best news story of the year in 2021 for a scoop exposing the failures of Victoria’s hotel quarantine program. She has twice been a finalist in the Walkley awards. Cunningham loves telling people’s stories, and values public interest journalism and its role in changing lives.view less
Books by Melissa Cunningham
Life As We Knew It: the extraordinary story of Australia’s pandemic