John Lyons (journalist)


John Lyons is an Australian journalist. He has been the Executive Editor of ABC News and Head of Investigative Journalism for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation since 2017. He was previously associate editor and a senior reporter at The Australian, editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, executive producer of the Sunday program on the Nine Network and a foreign correspondent in the United States and Israel.
He is a three-time Walkley Award winner: in 1999 for Commentary, Analysis, Opinion & Critique, for his national affairs reporting for The Bulletin, in 2001 for Broadcast Interviewing for his television interviews on the Sunday program, and in 2014 for Investigative Journalism as part of a Four Corners team's reporting on the Israeli military's treatment of Palestinian children. He also won the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award in 1999 for his work with The Bulletin.