James Campbell is the national politics editor at the Herald Sun newspaper in Melbourne and a regular commentator on Sky News Australia.
He has also written for The Age, The Times newspaper in London, The Punch website, The Spectator and the Institute of Public Affairs Review.
Prior to becoming a journalist, Campbell worked as a Liberal staffer, advising Helen Shardey, the Victorian Shadow Minister for Health at the time.
[4] In 2010, Campbell won the Grant Hattam Quill Award for Investigative Journalism in any Medium from the Melbourne Press Club for a story about the conduct of the Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Rapke that led to his resignation.
[6] Campbell subsequently won the 2013 Monash University Gold Quill and the Walkley Foundation's 2013 "Scoop of the Year" for the story.