Richard Alan Ackland AM is an Australian journalist, publisher and lawyer, who has won many awards for his reporting.
Ackland graduated with degrees in economics and law in the early 1970s and was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales before going on to pursue a career in journalism.
During this time he was awarded a Gold Walkley together with colleagues Deborah Richards and Anne Connolly for their expose of the notorious cash for comment affair.
[3] Ackland stopped being employed as a regular columnist by Fairfax in June 2014 to write for The Saturday Paper.
[4] In 2016 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the print and television media industries, particularly through reporting on legal issues, and as a publisher.