Alex Mann is an award-winning Sydney-based journalist with the ABC's flagship investigative radio documentary program, Background Briefing. His reporting has taken him across the country from the APY Lands in northern South Australia, to Dalby in south-east Queensland. In 2017 he was recognised as South Australia’s Journalist of the Year and won several other media awards for his reporting with ABC TV’s 7.30 program. Alex has previously reported for triple j's Hack program in Brisbane and got his first break reading sports reports in French for SBS Radio's Programme Français.