{{short description|Australian journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2017}}
'''Dennis Atkins''' is a journalist based in Brisbane, Australia. Atkins has worked for a number of media outlets, including Melbourne's ''News-Sun Pictorial'' and Brisbane's ''Courier-Mail''. He worked in the Canberra press gallery in the 1980s and from 2000 to 2005, the latter period as national political editor for ''The Courier-Mail''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=https://www.abc.net.au/insiders/about-us/|access-date=2020-09-15|website=www.abc.net.au|language=en}}</ref> In 1993, as chief media adviser to Labor Party Premier Wayne Goss, Atkins became embroiled in the Cape Melville affair, though a Criminal Justice Commission investigation later cleared him of wrongdoing.<ref name="conley">{{cite journal |last1=Conley |first1=David |last2=Turner |first2=Geoff |title=Cape Melville affair coverage: what is news? |url=https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_11192/UQ11192_OA.pdf |journal=Australian Studies in Journalism |pages=139–141 |access-date=25 July 2019 }}</ref>
Atkins was national affairs editor at ''The Courier-Mail'' until July 2019 and has been a regular panelist on ''Insiders'', a panel discussion program on ABC Television. He is currently a freelance writer and critic based in Brisbane, and co-host of the podcast Two Grumpy Hacks with Malcolm Farr.
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