👤 Gemma Grant

15 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
15
2026-09-04 – 2026-10-20
Claims per article
30
448 extracted in total
Hedged claims
5%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,245
characters · 1 tagged analysis
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
40%
Crime & Law
13%
Health
13%
Sports
13%
Entertainment
7%
Environment
7%
Most-tagged topics
MelbourneVictorianYarraCollingwoodFitzroyVictoriaFlemingtonMelbourne Magistrates’ Court

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
3 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.
2026-10-20 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Melbourne Assembly LIVE: First home buyers in Carroll’s sights as Labor pledges $1b election sweetener
4 outlets covered this event
2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Yarra mayor cleared of assault charge at Fitzroy party
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Yarra mayor cleared of assault charge at Fitzroy party
2 outlets covered this event
2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports
Brownlow Medal 2026 LIVE updates: Nick Daicos, Marcus Bontempelli and Bailey Smith frontrunners to take out league’s best and fairest
2 outlets covered this event
2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports
Brownlow Medal 2026 red carpet LIVE updates: What to expect from AFL’s most fashionable event
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Entertainment
Melbourne Assembly live: Ex-New York mayor, PM share visions to improve liveability
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘A real kick in the teeth’: Dozens of tram stops have been upgraded, but wheelchair users still can’t board
🔮 Future works along this route to accommodate the G-class trams are also expected to be announced. assertive
2026-09-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘NIMBYism at its most dangerous’: Life-saving medicine site axed after mayor intervenes
🔮 A plan to install a life-saving medicine dispenser near Melbourne’s safe injecting room has been scrapped after the local mayor claimed it would encourage drug use on the street rather than inside the medically supervised centre. assertive
2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Hundreds of market-rate rentals but no public housing guarantee: Tower plans labelled horrific
🔮 The number of apartments is set to almost quadruple to 800 as part of the major demolition and development project, according to the council’s briefing. assertive
2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Brownlow Medal 2026 red carpet LIVE updates: What to expect from AFL’s most fashionable event
🔮 I’m Gyan Yankovich, and I’ll be hosting today’s red carpet coverage along with deputy lifestyle editor Courtney Thompson, who will be reporting on all the best looks from the big event. assertive
2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Brownlow Medal 2026 LIVE updates: Nick Daicos, Marcus Bontempelli and Bailey Smith frontrunners to take out league’s best and fairest
🔮 Behind expected Brownlow Medal winner Nick Daicos, Western Bulldogs captain Marcus Bontempelli is set to share a slice of history. assertive
2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Changes take time’: In Sunshine, a grocer reopens, but hearts are still broken
🔮 While Peter might once have felt comfortable intervening in such circumstances, he says it now feels safer to remain a bystander. assertive
2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald
While Helen slept beside criminals and addicts, her jeans were pinched from under her pillow
🔮 Frankston Mayor Sue Baker, who was among the councillors supporting the motion, said everyone should have access to safe and appropriate housing. assertive
2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Yarra mayor cleared of assault charge at Fitzroy party
🔮 Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly has been found not guilty of punching a masked protester at a post-election celebration almost two years ago. assertive
2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Yarra mayor cleared of assault charge at Fitzroy party
🔮 Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly has been found not guilty of punching a masked protester at a post-election celebration almost two years ago. assertive
2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Pauline died after falling on tram. Her family is still waiting for answers
🔮 From her home in Hawthorn, the 78-year-old could visit her grandson and buy her own groceries. assertive
2026-10-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Cohealth splurged on a recruiter. Then it chose an internal applicant
🔮 In a projected breakdown of costs, Watermark offered cohealth a discount from its standard fee of 25 per cent of the chief executive’s first-year remuneration package (which it estimated to be between $112,500 and $122,500 in this instance) to a fixed fee of $65,000 plus GST – bringing the total proposed bill to $71,500. assertive
2026-10-09 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘They’ve been praying endlessly’: Glimmer of hope for public housing tower residents
🔮 With residents involved in the class action – who live in three towers across Flemington and North Melbourne – expecting to wait until after November’s election for a verdict, opposition housing spokesman David Southwick said a Coalition government would pause and review the project. assertive
2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘A priority crisis’: cohealth hires former minister’s top adviser
🔮 Melissa Arch was the long-serving chief of staff for former Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas, and worked by her side to examine the serious cultural and management issues that cohealth faced and attempted to overcome last year. Thomas stepped down from her ministerial position in April after announcing she would not recontest her seat at the November 28 election. assertive
2026-10-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne Assembly live: Ex-New York mayor, PM share visions to improve liveability
🔮 The coffee is good, but Federation Square needs to be fixed – those are the first takeaways from former New York mayor Bill de Blasio and world-leading city planner Carlos Moreno after hitting Melbourne’s sunny pavements. assertive
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