👤 Erin Pearson

9 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
9
2026-09-29 – 2026-10-29
Claims per article
29
257 extracted in total
Hedged claims
12%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,539
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

Crime & Law
89%
Politics
11%
Most-tagged topics
Melbourne Magistrates’ CourtDomainMelbourneMorwellSt KildaSupreme CourtBaliByron Bay

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
1 scored article; 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.
2026-10-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law
Mushroom killer Erin Patterson to die in prison after appeal spectacularly backfires
14 outlets covered this event
2026-10-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law
Erin Patterson appeal LIVE: The ruling on the mushroom cook’s appeal and what it means for her future behind bars
14 outlets covered this event
2026-10-16 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law
Catalano appears at court for first time since domestic violence charges
3 outlets covered this event
2026-10-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law
‘I served this state’: Former police officer indignant after jury convicts him of murder over $2000
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law
Greg Lynn says he’s being paid ‘peanuts’ for prison work and attacked by other inmates
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-20 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law
‘Ordinary, law-abiding life’: Accused $8m NGV thief faces court
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Pam the Bird’ accused considering plea deal following Bolte stunt
🔮 Jack Gibson-Burrell was beamed into Melbourne Magistrates’ Court from custody for seven minutes on Tuesday, but for nearly all of it, the public could only see the back of his shaved head. mixed
2026-10-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Extortion case collapses against bikie boss who was recorded warning ‘someone has to pay’
🔮 The shock decision is set to be referred to the royal commission into the building industry amid questions about why the state Labor government has failed to act on repeated police requests first issued in 2014 – and most recently again this year – to toughen laws to force gangland figures out of the construction sector. mixed
2026-10-16 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Catalano appears at court for first time since domestic violence charges
🔮 The complainant in the case, Catalano’s wife Stefanie, is currently overseas and is expected to tune into Friday’s hearing remotely, according to sources who spoke to this masthead on the condition of anonymity. assertive
2026-10-16 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Catalano bound for Bali as his lawyers try to resolve domestic violence charges
🔮 He will be spending a significant amount of time overseas,” the barrister said. assertive
2026-10-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Greg Lynn says he’s being paid ‘peanuts’ for prison work and attacked by other inmates
🔮 Lynn said one man looked ready to explode, “like Mount Vesuvius”, and told him that he had killed before and would kill again. “Then he said I was a killer of old people. assertive
2026-10-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Erin Patterson appeal LIVE: The ruling on the mushroom cook’s appeal and what it means for her future behind bars
🔮 Erin Patterson will likely die in prison after the bench struck out her non-parole period. assertive
2026-10-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Mushroom killer Erin Patterson to die in prison after appeal spectacularly backfires
🔮 Death cap mushroom murderer Erin Patterson will die in prison after an appeal court found her offending so cold, calculated and shocking that she should never have the chance at parole. 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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