Chris Griffith is media development editor at The Australian newspaper in Sydney. Before that he was deputy news editor online at The Australian, and previously online reporter at The Courier-Mail newspaper in Brisbane.
He has worked in TV and radio, but mostly in newspapers: as a columnist with The Sun-Herald in Brisbane in the early 1990s, and then as a reporter with five year stints at both The Sunday Mail and The Courier-Mail before helping pioneer the paper's coverage on the Internet.
He has covered legal affairs, consumer affairs, workplace relations, Brisbane City Council, worked on the news desk, and wrote special reports and The Fixer consumer affairs column for The Sunday Mail.
In 2006 he and multimedia artist Daniel Hammond won best multimedia report in Queensland for investigative reports on the water crisis and aircraft noise and then received a high commendation for their work at the News Ltd awards in Melbourne.
In 2002 Chris won best newspaper feature in Queensland for feature articles on the death of Gold Coast great grandmother Nancy Crick and the ethics of assisted suicide.
As legal reporter Chris spent several years writing on the lack of accountability of lawyers These stories helped trigger reforms in 2003 to the way lawyers are regulated in Queensland and wayward lawyers are investigated and disciplined.
He covered the legal fall from grace and jailing of Chief Magistrate Di Fingleton, legal issues behind the jailing of One Nation identities Pauline Hanson and David Ettridge, and he covered the landmark Shepherdson Inquiry into electoral rorting in Q!ueensland.
He broke the story of excessive travel claims by then Senator Mal Colston, tracked down fugitive Bahrainian deputy head of intelligence Adel Felaifel after he bought millions of dollars of real estate in Queensland, and investigated the international money operations of Alan Bond and Fiji coup leader George Speight.
He wrote about corruption in the superannuation industry, the collapse of HIH and One.Tel, and wrote on terrorism in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Chris was born in Brisbane, raised and educated in Melbourne. His interests include travel, computing and electronics, video and multimedia production, and music -- in 1975 he spent a year in the Victorian State Opera Chorus in Melbourne.
His favourite travel memory is a week in a small boat travelling the lakes of Kashmir with the Himalayas in the background.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s Chris was a public spokesman for the Citizens for Democracy group, a 400-strong reform group which campaigned for changes to the Queensland electoral system, then the infamous gerrymander.