Bob Burton

is a Hobart-based author, researcher, editor and freelance journalist. He is the Editor of CoalWire, a weekly bulletin on global coal industry developments for the US-based non-profit group Global Energy Monitor. His freelance journalism has been published a wide range of news outlets from the British Medical Journal to the US-based PR Watch. He is also the author of Inside Spin: the dark underbelly of the PR industry (2007) and co-author of two other books: Secrets and Lies: the anatomy of