All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 96, I talk with the head of editorial at Pedestrian Group, Melissa Matheson. Mel and I discuss that barbecues and lamingtons make Australia's election day the best in the world, the difficulty and the necessity of trusting journalists and their sources as an editor and the camaraderie for her journalistic peers past and present revisiting this minute in particular. 

About Melissa Matheson

Melissa Matheson is the head of editorial at Pedestrian Group, covering Business Insider, Lifehacker, Gizmodo and Kotaku. Matheson was the managing editor at Nova Entertainment's GOAT. Matheson was the digital content director and contributions manager at Australian Radio Network (ARN) and a senior editor at SBS World News. Before that, Matheson spent nine years at News Corp in several roles, including as the editor of mX Sydney.

Twitter: @Mel_Matheson