Andrew Rule

Andrew Rule (born 8 April 1957) is an Australian journalist who specialises in crime.

Career

Rule started as a reporter for the Gippsland Times and subsequently worked for The Age and Herald Sun. Rule wrote an authorised biography of Australian media proprietor and billionaire Kerry Stokes to counter bad press from an unauthorised work by Margaret Simons that included testimony from an abandoned family.[1] The Murders of Margaret and Seana Tapp was a cold case that Rule has worked to bring renewed attention to in articles for both The Age and Herald Sun.[2][3] In 2001, he won the Gold Walkley award for his story Geoff Clarke: Power and rape. With John Silvester, he wrote the Underbelly series of books about crime which were subsequently adapted into a TV series.[4][5]

References
  1. Malcolm Knox (18 October 2013), "Billionaire's forgotten family speaks out", The Age
  2. Silvester, Andrew Rule and John (18 June 2010). "A mother, her daughter and a murder case that got away from all". The Age. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  3. "Vile crime that fell through the cracks". NewsComAu. 9 August 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  4. Alex Sinnott (16 September 2010), "Age journalist tells his tale", The Age
  5. Andrew Rule, Harper Collins, 2014


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