[4] His grandparents, Sara Weintraub and Wolf Besser were Holocaust survivors that were interned at Auschwitz concentration camp.
[10] The pair released the best-selling book He Who must Be Obeid in 2014; its first print run was pulped due to incorrectly identifying one person as another.
[6] During his tenure, he won a second Kennedy Award in 2014 for Outstanding Consumer Affairs Reporting with Janine Cohen and Mario Christodoulou,[13] and a 2016 Walkley Television/Audio Visual Current Affairs Award for "State of Fear", along with cinematographer Louie Eroglu, producer Jaya Balendra and researcher Elise Worthington.
[14] During that investigation, Besser and Eroglu were arrested in Malaysia for trying to question Prime Minister Najib Razak over the 1MDB scandal, but were released without charge several days later.
[6] He won a fourth Walkley, for Business Journalism with Ninah Kopel for reports on problems with the strata management industry.