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Name
  
Michelle Grattan

Role
  
Editor


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Books
  
Back on the Wool Track, Reformers: Shaping Australian Society from the 60s to the 80s

The week in politics with michelle grattan and michael de percy 25 august 2017


Michelle Grattan AO (born 30 June 1944), Australian journalist, was the first woman to become editor of an Australian metropolitan daily newspaper. Specialising in political journalism, Grattan has written and edited for many significant Australian newspapers. She is chief political correspondent with The Conversation, Australia's largest independent news website.

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Career

Michelle Grattan was educated in Kew, Victoria at Ruyton Girls' School. She was recruited by The Age newspaper in 1970, and joined the Canberra Press Gallery in 1971. In 1976, she was appointed the Chief Political Correspondent for The Age, a position she would hold until 1993. After leaving The Age in 1993, Grattan was appointed the Editor of The Canberra Times, becoming the first female editor of a metropolitan daily newspaper in Australia. After two years in this position she was sacked and returned to The Age, where she became the Political Editor.

In 1996, Grattan joined The Australian Financial Review as a senior writer, and three years later, was appointed Chief Political Correspondent at The Sydney Morning Herald. She returned to The Age in 2002 as a columnist, and was made Political Editor and Bureau Chief in 2004.

On 4 February 2013 she announced her resignation from The Age to take up a position as professorial fellow at the University of Canberra.[1] and to become the Chief Political Correspondent of The Conversation.

Michelle Grattan has co-authored several books, including Can Ministers Cope?[2], Back on the Wool Track and Reformers,[3] and has edited collections such as Australian Prime Ministers[4] and Reconciliation.[5]

Honours

In 1988, Michelle Grattan was awarded the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award. In the Australia Day Honours in 2004, she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her long and distinguished service to Australian journalism. She won a Walkley Award for Journalism Leadership in 2006. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland's School of Journalism and Communication.

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Michelle Grattan Wikipedia


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