Skin in the game : the pleasure and pain of telling true stories / Sonya Voumard.

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The daughter of a European refugee mother and a journalist father, Voumard recounts with aplomb her passionate but questioning relationship with journalism and the nature of the interview. There's a disastrous 1980 university encounter with Helen Garner which forms the seed for her fascination with the dynamics of the interview and culminates in her connecting again with Garner more than three decades later to work out what went so wrong. There are the insights of a career played out against the changing nature of journalism including the author's time as a Canberra correspondent. And there are revealing and tender portraits of Kings Cross, of growing up in suburban Melbourne, her father's love of journalism, and a family journey to the Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre where her mother's Australian life began. Throughout it all Voumard is a sharpshooter, never afraid to hold a mirror up to her own life and practices as a journalist, to dig deep into the ethics of journalism and the use of power, and to sensitively explore the intertwined nature of life and work and personal relationships. The writing is at turns sharp, funny, direct, strong, and affectionate.

Intro; Cover Page; Skin in the Game; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Content Page; Part One; one; Bloodlines; A Foreign Posting; The Canberra Correspondent; Meeting the Future; Part Two; Two; I-VI; Part Three; Claims I've Never Made; A Free Spirit; The (Gay) Marriage Question; The Outsider; Before the Crisis, Before Brexit; The Corporate Writer; Part Four; Four; Smoking Joe and Me; I Inhaled; Five; 1975; New Australians; Six; Ten Days in Hong Kong; Do Not Bend; Estland; Seven; The Cross; Suburban Landscape; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Author

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