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Andrew Landeryou
BornAustralia
OccupationJournalist, businessman
GenrePolitics

Andrew John Clyde Landeryou (born 1970)[1] is an Australian journalist,[2] radio commentator,[3] political blogger,[4][5] and company director.[6] In recent years, he has attracted attention initially through his blog "The Other Cheek: Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom" and more recently VEXNEWS.[7][8][6]

Background

Landeryou is the son of Bill Landeryou,[7] a former Leader of the Opposition and then the Government in the Victorian Legislative Council and a minister in the Australian Labor Party Victorian state government of John Cain. Andrew Landeryou has been active in the past in the Labor Party, and particularly the Labor Right faction.[9] Subsequently he has been described as a "Liberal blogger."[10] As an independent journalist, he is not a member of any political party.[11]

Blogging and journalism

"Landeryou has some purchase in the mainstream media with a News Limited column, but essentially he's working in the blogging space, using his political, business and media contacts to embarrass, harass and hold to account the state's worthies and not-so-worthies, and his own enemies, through open publishing.

Whatever you think of his politics, Landeryou is a lively and engaging writer who find things out - one whose "inquisitive" approach allows him to uncover and share new information."

Jason Wilson, ABC News, 2008[5]

In 2005, Landeryou established a weblog commenting on Australian party politics called The Other Cheek - Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom. According to ninemsn, it was a "popular" website and to ABC News it was a "gleefully-muckraking, tabloid-style blog",[5][12][dead link‍] His blog focused on internal political events and exclusive reports rather than political analysis and opinion.[13] He also publishes VEXNEWS.[14] Lucy Saunders, a political activist linked to the Socialist Left who had been criticised by Landeryou, wrote on ABC News Online that "The overwhelming majority of what Landeryou prints is vague rumour, personal vendettas and outright fiction. Very occasionally, though, some actual facts sneak through."[15]

He clashed with another political blogger, Stephen Mayne, in 2006 when they accused each other of being spivs.[16]

Landeryou's blog has been archived by the National Library of Australia.[17]

VEXNEWS

Controversy is what gives life to Vexnews and it has been vigorously stirring the pot since its launch in August 2008

—Sally Jackson, The Australian, 2010[6]

Landeryou launched VEXNEWS in August 2008. It nows gets 200,000 hits per month and is slightly profitable. Landeryou is helped by 10 other pseudonymous contributors.[6] Andrew Bolt from the Herald Sun refers to Landeryou as "always entertaining"[18] and "often compelling."[19]

Independent political candidate Les Twentyman applied for a court intervention order in 2008 after VEXNEWS published a series of stories on him suggesting that he was wealthier than was public knowledge, including publishing photographs of his house.[20][21] Twentyman later withdrew the application.[22]

VEXNEWS and Landeryou's blog predecessor has regularly pre-empted mainstream media on a wide variety of stories, sometimes prompting front page news, as it did when it revealed AFL footballer Brendan Fevola's attack on a Melbourne journalist.[23] Landeryou also broke a major story drawing on Liberal party sources when he revealed that the authors of an anti-Ted Baillieu website were employees of Baillieu's own party.[24]

Other front-page stories prompted by Landeryou's investigative reporting include a Fairfax story about Australian politicians sanitising their Wikipedia articles[4] and a story about a Christian Family First candidate who had exposed himself in photographs. Landeryou declared him 'Australia's smallest loser', an epithet repeated by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann when he covered the story for US cable news.[25]

VEXNEWS is featured as part of Google News service.[26]

Commenting on Landeryou's journalistic abilities, the Victorian Greens party leader Greg Barber told the Legislative Council: I note that in the past the Hansard was only an unofficial newspaper report of the Parliament and over time evolved into becoming the official record. Maybe 100 years from now the Hansard will be called the Landeryou. He added "He is obviously well informed about matters that move through this chamber." [27]

References

  1. ^ Wood, Leonie (23 April 2005). "The tycoon, the missing husband and the millions". The Age. Retrieved 12 December 2009. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "Bad week for Health Services Union". Lateline. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 9 April 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
  3. ^ "VEXNEWS joins Glenn Ridge's Sunday show on MTRD". Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  4. ^ a b Moses, Asher (25 July 2008). "Politicians' Wiki entries altered". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
  5. ^ a b c Wilson, Jason (15 May 2008). "Baillieu and the blogs of war". ABC News. Retrieved 12 December 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ a b c d Jackson, Sally (11 October 2010). "Another online iconoclast emerges". The Australian. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  7. ^ a b Caldwell, Alison (4 May 2005). "Landeryou takes aim at enemies with blog". The World Today. ABC Radio. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
  8. ^ Franklin, Roger (15 November 2007). "'Dirty' war of old and new Labor". Herald Sun. News Limited. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
  9. ^ Wood, Leonie (4 May 2005). "Landeryou promises to tell it how it is". The Age. Fairfax. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
  10. ^ "Go to Burke". The Australian. News Limited. 7 March 2007. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
  11. ^ "Bad week for Health Services Union". Lateline. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 9 April 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
  12. ^ Crawford, Carly (24 August 2007). "Greens MP confirms her husband now a woman". Herald Sun. News Limited. Retrieved 12 December 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ Bruns, Axel (October 2008). "Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election" (PDF). Internet Research 9.0 conference. Copenhagen: Association of Internet Researchers. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ Windisch, Margarita (4 July 2009). "Reds under the bed, rats in the sewer". Green Left Weekly. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
  15. ^ Saunders, Lucy (23 April 2008). "The end of the free internet?". The Drum Unleashed. ABC News. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
  16. ^ Powell, Sian (29 September 2006). "Bloggers brawl for votes". The Australian. News Limited. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
  17. ^ Pandora Archive - Preserving and Accessing Networked DOcumentary Resources of Australia
  18. ^ Bolt, Andrew (5 November 2009). "The court of Hulls' opinion". Herald Sun Andrew Bolt blog. News Limited. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
  19. ^ Bolt, Andrew (12 May 2007). "Age not so White now". Herald Sun Andrew Bolt blog. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
  20. ^ Higginbottom, Nick (11 July 2008). "Youth worker Les Twentyman wins ban on blogger". Herald Sun. News Limited. Retrieved 12 December 2009. [dead link‍]
  21. ^ Howe, Alan (17 July 2008). "Smears and sinners". Herald Sun. News Limited. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
  22. ^ Landeryou, Andrew (31 July 2008). "VICTORY FOR PATRIOTS: Les Twentyman Withdraws Intervention Order Application // Freedom 2 Twentyman 0". The Other Cheek. Retrieved 26 February 2010.
  23. ^ "Fevola 'harassed reporter at Brownlow'". Ninemsn. 9 October 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
  24. ^ Campbell, James (11 May 2008). "Traitors sacked over Baillieu mud". Sunday Herald Sun. News Limited. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
  25. ^ [1]
  26. ^ http://news.google.com.au/news?rlz=1C1GGLS_enAU326AU326&sourceid=chrome&q=vexnews&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn
  27. ^ Legislative Council debate 19 April 2007

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