Lenore Taylor

Lenore Taylor is an Australian journalist. She has been the editor of The Guardian Australia since May 2016.

Raised in Brisbane, Taylor attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School and studied journalism and politics at the University of Queensland, where she was co-editor of the student newspaper Semper Floreat. She began working as a journalist in 1987 at The Canberra Times.[1] She was later national affairs correspondent and then chief political correspondent at the Sydney Morning Herald, before becoming The Guardian Australia's first political editor from 2013 to 2016.[2][3]

She has won the "Scoop of the Year" Walkley Award twice: in 2010, for her reporting on the Rudd government's shelving of an emissions trading scheme, and in 2014, for a joint report on Australian spying on the Indonesian government. She also won the 2014 Paul Lyneham Award for excellence in journalism and the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery Journalist of the Year in 2007 and 2014.[2][4][5][6]

Taylor published her first book, Shitstorm: Inside Labor's Darkest Days (about Kevin Rudd's first term as Prime Minister) in 2010.[7]

She is married to author and journalist Paul Daley.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Lenore Taylor". Q&A. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Herald journalists dominate Walkley Awards". Sydney Morning Herald. 10 December 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Lenore Taylor named new editor of Guardian Australia". Sydney Morning Herald. 20 May 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Walkley Awards: Four Corners team take gold; ABC, Guardian take Scoop of the Year". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 5 December 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  5. ^ Davidson, Helen (19 June 2014). "Guardian Australia's Lenore Taylor wins Paul Lyneham award". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery Journalist of the Year Winners". National Press Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  7. ^ Wanna, John (2010). "Book Reviews: Shitstorm: Inside Labor's Darkest Days". Australian Journal of Public Administration. 69 (3): 336–338. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8500.2010.00688_3.x.