Sharri Markson
From The Age:
According to the UK Press Gazette, some Australian journalists have put even their tabloid British cousins to shame. "I have never come across such outrageous reporting practices," is the blunt analysis of Claire Burroughs, chief press officer at St Mary's Hospital, London.
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But formal complaints have now been made to the Australian High Commission in London by St Mary's, by the liaison officer representing the family of Melbourne man Sam Ly, who died on Friday, and by several families of the injured who have not been identified.
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Soon after, however, the press office learned that a second Australian journalist, Sharri Markson, a young Sunday Telegraph reporter who last year was named as News Limited's Young Journalist of the Year, had gained access to Professor Tulloch's room.
According to the ward's chief nurse, Markson had arrived at the ward looking upset, with a bunch of flowers, and insisting on seeing the injured man.
Professor Tulloch told staff at the hospital he initially assumed she was a student but realised she was a journalist when she began conducting an interview, and taking photographs with a digital camera. He completed the interview in the knowledge that she was a journalist.
"Sharri never misrepresented herself," says Sunday Telegraph editor Jeni O'Dowd. "She was never asked by any hospital staff why she was there. She introduced herself to Professor Tulloch, who was with his wife in the room. She told them who she was and where she was from. They were happy to talk to her and pose for photographs."
"She duped a nurse; I've had that from the nurse and I've had that from John (Professor Tulloch)," Ms Burroughs responds.
When Ms Burroughs arrived on the ward, she says, Professor Tulloch, who was suffering from vertigo as a result of a perforated eardrums and could not see properly because his glasses had been lost in the explosion, said he was tired and confused and no longer wanted to be interviewed.
The hospital immediately cancelled plans for the pooled interview, creating angry scenes that intensified over the weekend when Seven aired the hand-held camera footage of the interview that Reason had conducted during his encounter with Professor Tulloch.
According to the UK Press Gazette, some Australian journalists have put even their tabloid British cousins to shame. "I have never come across such outrageous reporting practices," is the blunt analysis of Claire Burroughs, chief press officer at St Mary's Hospital, London.
[...]
But formal complaints have now been made to the Australian High Commission in London by St Mary's, by the liaison officer representing the family of Melbourne man Sam Ly, who died on Friday, and by several families of the injured who have not been identified.
[...]
Soon after, however, the press office learned that a second Australian journalist, Sharri Markson, a young Sunday Telegraph reporter who last year was named as News Limited's Young Journalist of the Year, had gained access to Professor Tulloch's room.
According to the ward's chief nurse, Markson had arrived at the ward looking upset, with a bunch of flowers, and insisting on seeing the injured man.
Professor Tulloch told staff at the hospital he initially assumed she was a student but realised she was a journalist when she began conducting an interview, and taking photographs with a digital camera. He completed the interview in the knowledge that she was a journalist.
"Sharri never misrepresented herself," says Sunday Telegraph editor Jeni O'Dowd. "She was never asked by any hospital staff why she was there. She introduced herself to Professor Tulloch, who was with his wife in the room. She told them who she was and where she was from. They were happy to talk to her and pose for photographs."
"She duped a nurse; I've had that from the nurse and I've had that from John (Professor Tulloch)," Ms Burroughs responds.
When Ms Burroughs arrived on the ward, she says, Professor Tulloch, who was suffering from vertigo as a result of a perforated eardrums and could not see properly because his glasses had been lost in the explosion, said he was tired and confused and no longer wanted to be interviewed.
The hospital immediately cancelled plans for the pooled interview, creating angry scenes that intensified over the weekend when Seven aired the hand-held camera footage of the interview that Reason had conducted during his encounter with Professor Tulloch.
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