Paul Barry has won numerous awards for his work as a journalist, including a Walkley in 2001 for an expose on tax-dodging barristers. He is a former host of The Times and Witness on Channel Seven and is currently the host of the ABC's Media Watch. He has also been a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sunday Telegraph.Award-winning investigative reporter and bestselling author Paul Barry studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University. A journalist with BBC TV for ten years, he came to Australia in 1987 to work for the ABC's Four Corners , where one of his hardest-hitting reports was on multi-millionaire Alan Bond. This led to his first bestseller, The Rise and Fall of Alan Bond . Since then his books have dominated the bestseller lists, The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer , Going for Broke: How Bond got away with it , Rich Kids: How the Murdochs and Packers lost $950 million in One.Tel and for Allen & Unwin Who Wants to be a Billionaire? The James Packer story .

Paul Barry has won numerous awards for his work as a journalist, including a Walkley in 2001 for an expose on tax-dodging barristers. He is a former host of The Times and Witness on Channel Seven and is currently the host of the ABC's Media Watch . He has also been a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sunday Telegraph .