Unlike most online news sites, we don't swim in the 24/7 news cycle. News comes at every one of us from every angle, at every hour. We think our readers are looking for something more considered, and less breathless. The Global Mail steps back, takes a little time, and offers you perspective and information outside the clamour. We seek out and listen to the voices not always heard, and examine the statements of those who speak the loudest and most often. And we investigate where investigation is the only way to get to the truth.

Ours is public-interest journalism that brings you engaging analysis and information, and downright fabulous reads about interesting people, places, events and issues. We investigate and report on all facets of life, across the globe, and bring you the world in words, video, audio, photojournalism and info-graphics.

With staff correspondents based in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the United States and Latin America and an eclectic group of journalists in Australia, we explore the corridors of government and business, academic institutions, urban communities and country towns. We bring you stories about science, sport, art, culture, religion and the human spirit— plus everything in between. And we'd hardly be Australian if we forgot a healthy dose of satire and humour, would we?

Anne Britton — Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, former National Secretary of Actors' Equity of Australia and (after the merger with the Australian Journalists' Association) former joint National Secretary of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

Pam Williams — Editor at Large, The Australian Financial Review and five-time Walkley Award winner.

Marian Wilkinson — ABC TV Four Corners reporter, author, former Sydney Morning Herald investigative reporter and winner of two Walkley Awards.

Norman Gillespie — CEO of UNICEF Australia and former Chief Executive of the Sydney Opera House.

Dr John Carmody — former Associate Professor in the School of Physiology and Pharmacology at New South Wales University, veteran music critic and prominent media commentator.

Paul Steiger — Editor in Chief, CEO and President of ProPublica.org, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal.

Graeme Samuel — former head of the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission, now Chairman of the Melbourne office of investment bank Greenhill Caliburn. Graeme is also a member of the Australian National University Council.

In addition to The Global Mail, Graeme is heavily involved in philanthropic endeavours. He is a keen supporter of youth-related and environmental causes. His donation to help establish the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland sets the path for research and uncovering solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems, including population growth, climate change and resource depletion. In 2008, Graeme was named Queenslander of the Year, the state’s highest citizenship honour. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2012 Australia Day Honours.

Board Member

Saad Mohseni — the Chairman and CEO of MOBY Group, a diverse media conglomerate with interests in Afghanistan and the Middle East, including the world’s first pan-regional Persian entertainment network, a joint venture between and MOBY Group and News Corporation. Through its media network, the MOBY Group already reaches millions of Dari, Farsi, Pashto, and English speaking people across the region and will soon tap into other substantial populations across the Middle East and in Pakistan.

Saad served as a Senior Economic Advisor to the Afghan government from 2002 to 2004, assisting in the development of the Industrial Parks Commission and the High Commission for Investment. He also helped establish the Afghanistan Centre for Policy and Research Studies, on of the nation’s best-known think tanks. He has an extensive background in investment banking, equities, and financial markets in Australia and Europe.

Board Member

Jenny Wheatley — a chartered accountant and has more than 20 years experience in providing strategic advice to a wide range of businesses, with a particular interest in the media, entertainment and funds-management industries. A principal at international accounting firm Crowe Horwath since 1999, Jenny has also been the lead principal for Forensic Accounting in Crowe Horwath’s Sydney corporate finance team since 2008. Jenny uses her specialist analysis and forecasting skills to test the strategic objectives, investment propositions and performance of her business clients.

She has a keen interest in ensuring that her clients are financially and strategically well placed to deal with economic and market challenges, and to exceed their strategic objectives. Jenny sits on a number of boards and advisory committees of private, unlisted public entities and not-for-profit organisations seeking to apply her financial and business skills.