Eric Ellis is an Australian journalist who writes about the politics, economics and societies of South and South-East Asia.

Biography

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The Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuous ...

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The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...

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Australian Financial Review The ''Australian Financial Review'' (''AFR'') is an Australian compact daily newspaper with a focus on business, politics and economic affairs. The newspaper is based in Sydney, New South Wales, and has been published continuously since its foun ...

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International Herald Tribune The ''International Herald Tribune'' (''IHT'') was a daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, France, for international English-speaking readers. It published under the name ''International Herald Tribune'' starting in 1967, but its ...

''. He reported on the Bali bombings over 2002–03, which won him the 2003

Walkley Award The annual Walkley Awards are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. They cover all media including print, television, documentary, radio, photographic and online media. The Gold Walkley is the highest prize and ...

for Excellence in Journalism for Coverage of the Asia-Pacific Region. He was a finalist for the 2006 Walkley Award for an investigative series from Poland and was also a finalist in the 1993 Walkley Awards for his reporting from China. In 2005 was short-listed for the British Business Journalist of the Year Awards for reporting from Afghanistan, where he has tracked its post

9-11 The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into ...

development. He was a finalist in the 2005 South Asian Journalists Association of North America awards for his reporting of the Sri Lankan tsunami for ''Fortune''. In May 2007, a profile he prepared of Wendi Deng was refused publication in the ''Sydney Morning Herald''. In February 2008, he was appointed an official observer of the Pakistan general elections. In 1999, he was appointed the regional correspondent of ''Time'' magazine, based in Singapore, and covering regional economic and political topics, notably the emergence of the internet in Asia, and of independence in East Timor. He became ''Fortune'' correspondent in South-East Asia in 2001, and wrote for that magazine until 2008. In 1996, he was posted to the United States as correspondent with the ''Australian Financial Review''.

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