The Conversation expands its editorial team and boosts non-partisan coverage of public policy

By Misha Ketchell, Editor & Executive Director, The Conversation

As we gear up for an election year, the editors at The Conversation have been thinking hard about the role of quality journalism in the political process. We want to find better ways to provide readers and voters with the trustworthy information they need to make good decisions, for their own benefit and the community as a whole.

The growing difficulty of this task is now pretty well understood. A bit over a decade ago a former Australian Labor politician, Lindsay Tanner, published a book called “Sideshow”, in which he argued that politics had been dumbed down by media outlets more…

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