👤 Bevan Shields

6 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
6
2026-09-18 – 2026-10-21
Claims per article
52
313 extracted in total
Hedged claims
8%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
7,134
characters
Writes for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
83%
Environment
17%
Most-tagged topics
SydneyICACLaborNSWAustralianBusiness SydneyChristianCity of Sydney

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
2 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.27 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Biggest idiot, grubbiest behaviour, best phone tap: The Operation Rosny Awards
3 outlets covered this event
2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Environment
‘Human composting’ laws pass parliament in Australian first
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Clover’s Town Hall Square would long outlast the small-minded fools trying to kill it
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-09-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Lady Chu prevails in street lighting war with Clover Moore – but a new sore point is brewing
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
‘Pretty bad look’: Lawyer denies lying to ICAC over $148,500 cheque, Liberal fundraiser
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Inside a grubby political blackmail plot that backfired spectacularly
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Inside a grubby political blackmail plot that backfired spectacularly
🔮 Little did they know the meeting would trigger one of the grubbiest feuds in NSW politics, and feature in a major corruption inquiry four years later. assertive
2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Pretty bad look’: Lawyer denies lying to ICAC over $148,500 cheque, Liberal fundraiser
🔮 The lawyer last week said he would have earned about $1.4 million while working at Toplace between July 2020 and March 2023. assertive
2026-09-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Biggest idiot, grubbiest behaviour, best phone tap: The Operation Rosny Awards
🔮 Maheswaran was involved in two operations to have a private investigator surveil several enemies, including Strathfield Council mayor Matthew Blackmore and the then police minister David Elliott. assertive
2026-09-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Lady Chu prevails in street lighting war with Clover Moore – but a new sore point is brewing
🔮 War may still be raging in Europe and the Middle East, but a historic peace deal has just been sealed much closer to home. assertive
2026-10-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Clover’s Town Hall Square would long outlast the small-minded fools trying to kill it
🔮 Pushing into her third decade as lord mayor, Clover Moore still has plenty of fans in Sydney – although I’m no longer really one of them. assertive
2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Human composting’ laws pass parliament in Australian first
🔮 So-called “human composting” will become legal in NSW under Australian-first laws, with several MPs revealing they want their own bodies turned into soil after they die. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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