Michael West is a Walkley Award-winning journalist who began as a cadet on the Australian Financial Review. After a couple of years in stockbroking, he founded the Margin Call column at The Australian newspaper, worked at News Ltd for eight years followed by another eight years at Fairfax Media variously as a commentator and Business Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.
Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.