John Lyons

John Lyons (born 1961) is an Australian journalist. , Lyons is Americas editor at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, having previously been its global affairs editor.

Early life and education John Lyons was born in 1961.

Career Lyons was formerly editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and executive producer of the Sunday program on the Nine Network. In 2017 he was a foreign correspondent in the United States and Israel.

Lyons became Americas editor at the ABC in March 2025, after having been its global affairs editor.

The ABC was barred from US president Donald Trump’s UK press conference in September 2025 after Lyons asked Trump: "Is it appropriate, President Trump, that a president in office should be engaged in so much business activity?" Trump was upset by the question and prevaricated, saying that it was his sons, not him, who were involved in the businesses.

Awards Lyons won the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award in 1999 for his work with The Bulletin.

In August 2024, at the Kennedy Awards for Outstanding Journalism, Lyons won the Journalist of the Year award, as well as Outstanding Team Player or Mentor and Outstanding Feature Writing awards, for his reporting from the Middle East.

Books Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir (HarperCollins, 2017)

Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism's Toughest Assignment (Monash University Publishing, 2021)

A Bunker in Kyiv: The Astonishing Story of the People's Army Defying Putin (HarperCollins, April 2025)

Personal life Lyons married Sylvie Le Clezio and they have one son.