David Dale (author)

David Dale (born 1948) is an Australian author and journalist.

Dale graduated from Sydney University with an honours degree in psychology before pursuing journalism. Currently he edits The Tribal Mind blog for Fairfax online, writes columns for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald, and The Sunday Age, does media commentary for the ABC and lectures part-time in Communications at the University of Technology, Sydney. Dale created the satire column "Stay in Touch" for The Sydney Morning Herald in 1981 and edited it for four years before being appointed the paper's New York correspondent in 1986. He won a Walkley Award in 1984 for a feature called The Italian Waiters Conspiracy. He has also served as a political reporter for The Australian, a sub-editor for General Practitioner (London), features editor of "The Sydney Morning Herald", editor of The Bulletin and broadcaster for ABC radio and 2GB Sydney.

External links

• David Dale's bio (agent's website)
• The Tribal Mind, Dale's blog about Australian pop culture