Steve Lillebuen is a Melbourne-based reporter and photographer for the national news agency the Australian Associated Press.
He covers all Australian states and territories with a focus on crime, justice and breaking news within Victoria. He is a former online editor for the Melbourne Herald Sun and has written for the Bangkok Post and the National Post.
Before living in Australia he wrote for the Canadian Press and co-founded Metro, a daily commuter newspaper in Edmonton, Canada as senior reporter and managing editor.
As a police reporter for the Edmonton Journal, he unearthed a teenage serial killer investigation and covered a drug war fueled by Alberta’s booming oilsands projects, among other topics from eco-terrorism to gangland murders.
He studied film and television production and earned a bachelor of arts degree in literature and media studies from the University of Alberta.
Lately, he has focused on breaking news, multimedia journalism and true crime.
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