Misha Ketchell is editor of The Conversation Australia and New Zealand, a digital publisher that provides trusted information by only working with academic experts who are writing within their area of expertise. He has been a journalist for more than 20 years and in previous roles he was founding editor of The Big Issue Australia and editor of Crikey, The Reader and The Melbourne Weekly. He worked for The Age in Melbourne as a reporter and feature writer and spent several years at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation where he was a TV producer on Media Watch and The 7:30 Report and an editor on The Drum. He negotiated the Australian News Media Bargaining Code with Google but failed to get a deal with Facebook.
