the editorial team
Kate is editor-in-chief at news.com.au. A very experienced editor she has worked as a news, feature and opinion writer for more than twenty years across digital, newspapers and magazines. Her most suffering claim to fame however, was her stint as online advice columnist Ask Bossy. Previously she has worked as editor of Mamamia, head of digital for the News Corp editorial network and news editor at news.com.au.
Lisa is the editor at news.com.au. She has been a journalist for more than sixteen years, having worked predominantly in community newspapers. After years of reporting on politics, health and general news, Lisa worked as a sub editor and then editor at The Southern Courier and The Mosman Daily, before being appointed news editor at The Manly Daily.
Cameron is the deputy editor for news.com.au, having previously served as the site's Afternoon Editor and Sports Editor. He has more than twelve years practice as an editor and journalist, and has previously worked for Fox Sports, Australian Associated Press and Alpha magazine.
Stephanie is the group features editor at news.com.au. She has spent twenty years reporting and editing for News Corp, Fairfax Media and Bauer Media in Canberra and Sydney since getting her begin typing the TV times at The Advertiser in Adelaide. She specialises in scepticism but believes her border collie every time he tells her he hasn't been fed.
Joe Hildebrand is editor-at-large at News.com.au and has been a journalist for twenty years. He is also co-host of the Channel Ten morning showcase Studio Ten. Before joining News.com.au he was opinion editor at The Daily Telegraph and a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun. Joe commenced in journalism editing the Melbourne University magazine Farrago and then at Australian Associated Press, as well as various other publications, TV and radio shows. He was the presenter of the critically acclaimed ABC series Dumb, Inebriated and Racist and Shitsville Express. Joe grew up in Dandenong, Melbourne and now lives in Sydney with his wifey and youthful family. He detests referring to himself in the third person.
Hannah is the commissioning editor for news.com.au. After graduating from UTS she began her career in journalism fetching coffee for Kerri-Anne Kennerley, before joining the Today Display as a producer. Prior to joining news.com.au she travelled Australia and the world as a producer for sixty Minutes, where she had the awful very first overseas assignment of reporting on Blue Whales in the Maldives.
Malcolm is national political editor of news.com.au. His forty years in journalism include the past twenty two years in Canberra. He has also worked for newspapers in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Rome for The Australian, The Daily Mirror, the risbane Sun, The Daily Telegraph, and the International Daily News. Rails a motorbike without falling off. so far.
James is news.com.au's Fresh York correspondent and began his career at his hometown newspaper, the Wingham Chronicle, a one-journalist gig where he wrote the stories, took the photos, laid out the pages and put the bins out. He was editor of the Hunter Valley's Muswellbrook Chronicle, before joining News Corp's stable of community newspapers in Sydney as an editor. He is a federal politics junkie, and when he's not at work you're likely to find him liking some live music.
Victoria covers world news and features from News UK's London office. Originally from Fresh Zealand, she has previously worked in Sydney covering business, property and general news. She loves travelling anywhere fresh – especially if it involves beaches, good wine and slew of pasta.
Oliver is a copy editor at news.com.au with more than a decade of journalism practice. He embarked as a sports reporter at a puny country NSW newspaper before moving to News Corp. He worked at News Corp's Sydney community papers as a reporter and editor before moving to news.com.au. Oliver is sultry about football (the world game), going to the World Cup and also loves live music.
Rohan loves violating news and telling the quirky Australian stories that speak to our national diversity. Rohan has been writing news for print, broadcast and online for ten years after embarking as a cadet sports reporter in Melbourne. He moved to Sydney five years ago to work in newspapers and joined the news.com.au team in 2014.
Sam is the morning homepage editor at news.com.au. He also writes about US politics, with the occasional snarky TV recap thrown in. Sam very first joined news.com.au as a university student, working as that stud in the office who fetches mail and fixes the printers, before scoring a job as a reporter. He spends his free time eating.
Wenlei is the afternoon homepage editor for news.com.au. In addition to curating the homepage, she also writes reviews and yarns on TV, film and pop culture. Wenlei studied media and film at the University of Sydney and has written for Yaffa, Bauer and Fairfax. If prompted, she will talk your ear off about why streaming is the best thing to happen to TV.
Andrew (aka Banksy) is the night editor and longest-serving employee at news.com.au. Banksy's role is to set the news agenda for the following day and help form discussion around the stories of the day.
Victoria is the picture editor for news.com.au and has more than twelve years' practice in photo editing. She embarked her career working with paparazzi photos, before moving into the world of magazines and online. Whether it's news or celebrity related, she loves letting an picture tell the story. Her brain is utter of random celebrity facts, which makes her a desired team member at pub trivia.
Charis has been a reporter for more than ten years covering politics, environment, infrastructure and everything in inbetween. Before becoming a journalist, she was a paralegal but determined to take a chance on writing and never looked back. She loves reporting on interesting people, ideas and policy. She also spends way too much money on travelling.
Debbie is a journalist and editor with more than two decades' practice across daily and weekly newspapers, fourteen of those years with News Corp. She has written and edited sport, general news, colour and opinion, covered an Olympics, been a chief-of-staff, deputy editor, production editor, sport columnist and TV columnist and she also sometimes takes the bins out. For eight years she edited the national Sunday TV Guide and has a wealth of contacts and practice in that field. Most importantly, Debbie loves a good yarn. When she grows up, she wants to be a jockey.
Debra loves being the very first to know information which makes it effortless for her to react to violating news quickly for news.com.au. Debra has seventeen years' practice in the national and international press and online media, with almost half of that spent working overseas. Debra spent six years in the UK working for the Mirror Group, including the Mail Online.
Emma is a senior reporter with a passion for news, human interest stories, politics and social affairs. She commenced out at local papers in London and freelanced for Reuters, the Big black cock, The Guardian and the Evening Standard before becoming a reporter and editor at the Daily Mail and Mail Online. She then moved overseas to work at The Australian followed by news.com.au, covering anything from the election to Olympics to child manhandle, and regularly emerges on national TV.
Liz is one of our senior reporters with an interest in politics and an obsession with social media. After tweeting her way into the industry she began her career in magazines at The Australian Women's Weekly going on to work in newspapers and joins news.com.au as a senior journalist. She has appeared on national TV and radio as a commentator discussing news stories and women's issues.
Matt has worn many digital hats at news.com.au but his most rewarding was no doubt his secondment to Fresh York as news.com.au's US Correspondent. With more than a decade of practice, including over eight years at News Corp, Matt is is a vibrant, vigorous newshound who knows exactly what gets you talking, what makes you laugh and what makes you furious.
Benedict is a news reporter at news.com.au focused on NSW stories and is one of those backpacker types who came to Australia ages ago and never fairly left. He's been obsessed by journalism ever since he ran his student newspaper, the Badger, back in England violating stories all over campus. Working in journalism and communications for more than fifteen years, both in the UK and Oz, before joining news.com.au, Benedict was assistant editor at LGBTI publication, the Starlet Observer.
Kirrily is a news reporter for news.com.au and blogged her way into a job while backpacking around Europe. She has a dual degree in Journalism and Law, won a Youthful Walkley award in 2014, and commenced her career answering 12:15am alarms to write news for Channel Nine's Today Showcase. Her hair is so big the hairdresser actually panicked when it was time to take this photo. Looks can be deceiving.
Marnie has been a journalist for twenty years, gathering practice from across the globe. She is a news reporter for news.com.au but also has a penchant for crime and the bizarre.
Megan has been a journalist for newspapers, radio and online for eight years. She began her media career as an intern in the SeaFM newsroom while completing her journalism degree and later going on to report for several Sydney newspapers. Before joining news.com.au Megan was a senior reporter at the NT News where she covered crime, politics, indigenous affairs, travel, entertainment (and the odd croc and UFO story!).
Olivia made the budge to news.com.au to become a news reporter after working as the education editor at the Border Mail on the NSW-Victorian border. She may only be early on in her career but she has spent her entire life asking questions. She's in tune with what's happening in and around the country and loves getting to the bottom of a mystery. She also confesses to being a sucker for a good dog story.
Andrew is the crime reporter for news.com.au. He has been a police and court reporter for over ten years and loves everything about the crime round. the drama, how quickly it can switch and the characters you meet. Before joining news.com.au, Andrew was a senior reporter at the Fresh Zealand Herald.
Simone has worked in journalism for thirteen years in Melbourne and Sydney, and joined news.com.au after stints as an editor with TheVine, The Age, Daily Life and Fairfax's life&style section. She's a mad foodie with a passion for dancing, laughing and butchering songs at karaoke. Joy fact: her most-read story online to date is about an otter who loved eating watermelon so much it made him sob.
Rebecca joined news.com.au as a News Reporter three years ago before coming across to the joy side of the office as a Lifestyle Reporter. Prior to that she worked in newspapers and has read the news on local radio. While some journalists have extensive economic policy skill, Sully can recall every Met Gala clothing, all of Pete Evans' foot-in-mouth incidents and knows way too much about the Thermomix. No judgement please.
Vanessa is a lifestyle reporter for news.com.au. After graduating with a degree in media and broadcast, she landed a job with the Today Demonstrate as a producer. Vanessa spent five years with the breakfast program, which spotted her working across the country and the world on various entertainment, news and lifestyle stories. Vanessa has a superb interest in food, fitness, beauty, health and home.
Kate is the travel editor for news.com.au and has been working for the company for six years after graduating from Sydney's University of Technology. Kate is a keen explorer of the world who writes about the latest and most interesting aspects of travel. Her travel highlights include Abu Dhabi, Peru, Argentina, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. Kate loves the way the news can inspire and amaze people, and can even bring about switch.
Lauren is the travel reporter for news.com.au. She worked on Sydney's suburban newspaper circuit before spending two years as senior news reporter with mX newspaper, covering the sublime to the ridiculous, as well as all the big, cracking news from across Australia and around the world. She has penned food reviews, travel lumps and racked up an amazing list of A-list interviews.
Melissa is a journalist and media commentator who is obsessed with every tentacle of popular culture. As the entertainment and style editor-at-large at news.com.au her role is the ideal combination of everything she loves about sharing news. Melissa is a regular commentator on Sunrise, The Morning Showcase and The Daily Edition as well as the go-to radio commentator on all things pop culture and style.
Andrew is an entertainment reporter for news.com.au. He was a breakfast radio producer for seven years before determining that he is much better suited to a job that doesn't require he be in bed by 7.30pm. He loves tracking down celebrities for a quick talk, and has spoken to Lady Gaga, Chris Rock, Usher and Merlin from Big Brother (the latter was a lot lighter to track down).
Bronte is an entertainment reporter at news.com.au. She's been a journalist for six years, covering news and entertainment for major media outlets across the country, including Nova, Triple M, 2DayFM and Channel Nine's Today Demonstrate, before joining news.com.au. When Bronte's not at work keeping up with the Kardashians, she's at home keeping up with the Kardashians. She also performed in the Sydney two thousand Olympic opening ceremony – but that's a story for another time. She tweets @brontecoy.
James is an entertainment reporter for news.com.au. Having written for newspapers and worked as a producer for ABC radio and The Kyle & Jackie O Display, he's now lodged in at Australia's number one news site. He sometimes writes mean things about reality TV and is genuinely worried former contestants from The Bachelor will band together and harm him. Loves a carbohydrate.
Entertainment reporter Nick Bond has worked as a journalist for over a decade now, getting his embark as the entertainment editor of Australia's most respected LGBT publication, the Starlet Observer. Since then he's worked in TV as online producer for Channel 7's Sunday Night current affairs program, and recently spent a year in London as the Web Editor for Attitude Magazine. A paramour of all things pop, celebrity gossip and trashy reality TV, Nick doesn't consider the calendar year has officially embarked until the next season of Real Housewives of Melbourne premieres.
Matthew is the technology editor at news.com.au. After a brief stint as North Queensland's premier dating columnist and Townsville Bulletin's digital editor, he made his way to news.com.au to report on all things tech, plus a few stories about his cat Willow. He is also the host of tech review movie series UnDunn. It's pretty good – that's what he will tell you.
Nick is a technology reporter with a love of politics and he's a rugby tragic. While studying at UTS Nick worked in community radio at 2SER and spent time as a digital media assistant in the Sydney offices of international aid agency Caritas. An avid sportsman, his thickest claim to fame is having a hit with grand ram winner Mary Pierce.
An award-winning journalist and former lawyer, Dana is the finance editor for news.com.au. While her legal career was short-lived, it was illuminating enough that Dana is yet to be sued for defamation. Within minutes of framing her admission certificate, she walked into a UTS Journalism open day and found her true calling. After training as a News Corp cadet in Victoria, Dana spent three years at Leader Newspapers where she won two Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards.
Frank is a finance reporter for news.com.au. He previously worked for media publication AdNews and has also written for The Canberra Times, The Courier-Mail, The Queensland Times and the Ipswich Advertiser. In his free time he gets older.
Originally from Adelaide, Jai is a journalist with more than a decade practice in the industry – including the past three at news.com.au. He has covered a range of international events, including the Olympics, and is a keen follower of the AFL, NFL, NBA, UFC, surfing and boxing.
James joined the news.com.au team as a sports reporter while still studying, a job that suited him flawlessly as he always preferred watching sport to sitting in lecture theatres. He has a passion for cricket, tennis, rugby league, AFL and football, and is always keen to learn more about the ever-changing world of journalism. James stands out as the only member of the sports desk incapable of growing a beard (even if he'll never admit to it).
Tyson is a sports reporter at news.com.au. After completing a sports journalism degree at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, he joined The Daily Telegraph as a sports reporter with a concentrate on the NRL and AFL before moving to the position of sports editor at mX Newspaper in Sydney. He has covered everything from Tiger Forest' chipping to wood-chopping.
Alex is a sports reporter for news.com.au. A large fan of cricket, rugby and tennis, Alex loves telling the story behind the stories and finding the quirkiest yarns possible. When you can't find him at the office, he'll be at another gig with his band or recording the next No. One hit.
Also known as Issey G, Isabelle is a social media editor with news.com.au. Three years working as a social media producer at Nine Network Australia for The Today Display spotted Isabelle develop an interest in news and current events. She's always on the lookout for stories that spark social commentary and conversation. When not trawling the web for the latest social media crazes, you will find her on the dance floor.
Lucy began at News Corp in two thousand sixteen as a graduate journalist who had been sharpening her claws in lifestyle journalism before joining News DNA as SEO content specialist. When she isn't providing SEO headlines for the rest of the team, she'll write a yarn on anything, from health and fitness to style and food and is blessed to put her assets on the line in the name of beauty.
Raffaella has a postgraduate degree in Digital Communication and a background in writing. She is an integral part of the SEO team. When she's not optimising our yarns for Google, she loves writing up environmental and lifestyle news, especially if it involves food. This last passion has resulted in the secondary (unofficial) title of Office Foodie.
The editorial team
the editorial team
Kate is editor-in-chief at news.com.au. A very experienced editor she has worked as a news, feature and opinion writer for more than twenty years across digital, newspapers and magazines. Her most suffering claim to fame however, was her stint as online advice columnist Ask Bossy. Previously she has worked as editor of Mamamia, head of digital for the News Corp editorial network and news editor at news.com.au.
Lisa is the editor at news.com.au. She has been a journalist for more than sixteen years, having worked predominantly in community newspapers. After years of reporting on politics, health and general news, Lisa worked as a sub editor and then editor at The Southern Courier and The Mosman Daily, before being appointed news editor at The Manly Daily.
Cameron is the deputy editor for news.com.au, having previously served as the site's Afternoon Editor and Sports Editor. He has more than twelve years practice as an editor and journalist, and has previously worked for Fox Sports, Australian Associated Press and Alpha magazine.
Stephanie is the group features editor at news.com.au. She has spent twenty years reporting and editing for News Corp, Fairfax Media and Bauer Media in Canberra and Sydney since getting her commence typing the TV times at The Advertiser in Adelaide. She specialises in scepticism but believes her border collie every time he tells her he hasn't been fed.
Joe Hildebrand is editor-at-large at News.com.au and has been a journalist for twenty years. He is also co-host of the Channel Ten morning showcase Studio Ten. Before joining News.com.au he was opinion editor at The Daily Telegraph and a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun. Joe commenced in journalism editing the Melbourne University magazine Farrago and then at Australian Associated Press, as well as various other publications, TV and radio shows. He was the presenter of the critically acclaimed ABC series Dumb, Toasted and Racist and Shitsville Express. Joe grew up in Dandenong, Melbourne and now lives in Sydney with his wifey and youthfull family. He detests referring to himself in the third person.
Hannah is the commissioning editor for news.com.au. After graduating from UTS she began her career in journalism fetching coffee for Kerri-Anne Kennerley, before joining the Today Showcase as a producer. Prior to joining news.com.au she travelled Australia and the world as a producer for sixty Minutes, where she had the awful very first overseas assignment of reporting on Blue Whales in the Maldives.
Malcolm is national political editor of news.com.au. His forty years in journalism include the past twenty two years in Canberra. He has also worked for newspapers in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Rome for The Australian, The Daily Mirror, the risbane Sun, The Daily Telegraph, and the International Daily News. Rails a motorbike without falling off. so far.
James is news.com.au's Fresh York correspondent and embarked his career at his hometown newspaper, the Wingham Chronicle, a one-journalist gig where he wrote the stories, took the photos, laid out the pages and put the bins out. He was editor of the Hunter Valley's Muswellbrook Chronicle, before joining News Corp's stable of community newspapers in Sydney as an editor. He is a federal politics junkie, and when he's not at work you're likely to find him liking some live music.
Victoria covers world news and features from News UK's London office. Originally from Fresh Zealand, she has previously worked in Sydney covering business, property and general news. She loves travelling anywhere fresh – especially if it involves beaches, good wine and slew of pasta.
Oliver is a copy editor at news.com.au with more than a decade of journalism practice. He embarked as a sports reporter at a puny country NSW newspaper before moving to News Corp. He worked at News Corp's Sydney community papers as a reporter and editor before moving to news.com.au. Oliver is sultry about football (the world game), going to the World Cup and also loves live music.
Rohan loves cracking news and telling the quirky Australian stories that speak to our national diversity. Rohan has been writing news for print, broadcast and online for ten years after beginning as a cadet sports reporter in Melbourne. He moved to Sydney five years ago to work in newspapers and joined the news.com.au team in 2014.
Sam is the morning homepage editor at news.com.au. He also writes about US politics, with the occasional snarky TV recap thrown in. Sam very first joined news.com.au as a university student, working as that dude in the office who fetches mail and fixes the printers, before scoring a job as a reporter. He spends his free time eating.
Wenlei is the afternoon homepage editor for news.com.au. In addition to curating the homepage, she also writes reviews and yarns on TV, film and pop culture. Wenlei studied media and film at the University of Sydney and has written for Yaffa, Bauer and Fairfax. If prompted, she will talk your ear off about why streaming is the best thing to happen to TV.
Andrew (aka Banksy) is the night editor and longest-serving employee at news.com.au. Banksy's role is to set the news agenda for the following day and help form discussion around the stories of the day.
Victoria is the picture editor for news.com.au and has more than twelve years' practice in photo editing. She embarked her career working with paparazzi photos, before moving into the world of magazines and online. Whether it's news or celebrity related, she loves letting an pic tell the story. Her brain is utter of random celebrity facts, which makes her a desired team member at pub trivia.
Charis has been a reporter for more than ten years covering politics, environment, infrastructure and everything in inbetween. Before becoming a journalist, she was a paralegal but determined to take a chance on writing and never looked back. She loves reporting on interesting people, ideas and policy. She also spends way too much money on travelling.
Debbie is a journalist and editor with more than two decades' practice across daily and weekly newspapers, fourteen of those years with News Corp. She has written and edited sport, general news, colour and opinion, covered an Olympics, been a chief-of-staff, deputy editor, production editor, sport columnist and TV columnist and she also periodically takes the bins out. For eight years she edited the national Sunday TV Guide and has a wealth of contacts and practice in that field. Most importantly, Debbie loves a good yarn. When she grows up, she wants to be a jockey.
Debra loves being the very first to know information which makes it effortless for her to react to violating news quickly for news.com.au. Debra has seventeen years' practice in the national and international press and online media, with almost half of that spent working overseas. Debra spent six years in the UK working for the Mirror Group, including the Mail Online.
Emma is a senior reporter with a passion for news, human interest stories, politics and social affairs. She embarked out at local papers in London and freelanced for Reuters, the Big black cock, The Guardian and the Evening Standard before becoming a reporter and editor at the Daily Mail and Mail Online. She then moved overseas to work at The Australian followed by news.com.au, covering anything from the election to Olympics to child manhandle, and regularly emerges on national TV.
Liz is one of our senior reporters with an interest in politics and an obsession with social media. After tweeting her way into the industry she began her career in magazines at The Australian Women's Weekly going on to work in newspapers and joins news.com.au as a senior journalist. She has appeared on national TV and radio as a commentator discussing news stories and women's issues.
Matt has worn many digital hats at news.com.au but his most rewarding was no doubt his secondment to Fresh York as news.com.au's US Correspondent. With more than a decade of practice, including over eight years at News Corp, Matt is is a vibrant, vigorous newshound who knows exactly what gets you talking, what makes you laugh and what makes you furious.
Benedict is a news reporter at news.com.au focused on NSW stories and is one of those backpacker types who came to Australia ages ago and never fairly left. He's been obsessed by journalism ever since he ran his student newspaper, the Badger, back in England violating stories all over campus. Working in journalism and communications for more than fifteen years, both in the UK and Oz, before joining news.com.au, Benedict was assistant editor at LGBTI publication, the Starlet Observer.
Kirrily is a news reporter for news.com.au and blogged her way into a job while backpacking around Europe. She has a dual degree in Journalism and Law, won a Youthful Walkley award in 2014, and commenced her career answering 12:15am alarms to write news for Channel Nine's Today Demonstrate. Her hair is so big the hairdresser actually panicked when it was time to take this photo. Looks can be deceiving.
Marnie has been a journalist for twenty years, gathering practice from across the globe. She is a news reporter for news.com.au but also has a penchant for crime and the bizarre.
Megan has been a journalist for newspapers, radio and online for eight years. She began her media career as an intern in the SeaFM newsroom while completing her journalism degree and later going on to report for several Sydney newspapers. Before joining news.com.au Megan was a senior reporter at the NT News where she covered crime, politics, indigenous affairs, travel, entertainment (and the odd croc and UFO story!).
Olivia made the budge to news.com.au to become a news reporter after working as the education editor at the Border Mail on the NSW-Victorian border. She may only be early on in her career but she has spent her entire life asking questions. She's in tune with what's happening in and around the country and loves getting to the bottom of a mystery. She also confesses to being a sucker for a good dog story.
Andrew is the crime reporter for news.com.au. He has been a police and court reporter for over ten years and likes everything about the crime round. the drama, how quickly it can switch and the characters you meet. Before joining news.com.au, Andrew was a senior reporter at the Fresh Zealand Herald.
Simone has worked in journalism for thirteen years in Melbourne and Sydney, and joined news.com.au after stints as an editor with TheVine, The Age, Daily Life and Fairfax's life&style section. She's a mad foodie with a passion for dancing, laughing and butchering songs at karaoke. Joy fact: her most-read story online to date is about an otter who loved eating watermelon so much it made him sob.
Rebecca joined news.com.au as a News Reporter three years ago before coming across to the joy side of the office as a Lifestyle Reporter. Prior to that she worked in newspapers and has read the news on local radio. While some journalists have extensive economic policy skill, Sully can recall every Met Gala garment, all of Pete Evans' foot-in-mouth incidents and knows way too much about the Thermomix. No judgement please.
Vanessa is a lifestyle reporter for news.com.au. After graduating with a degree in media and broadcast, she landed a job with the Today Demonstrate as a producer. Vanessa spent five years with the breakfast program, which eyed her working across the country and the world on various entertainment, news and lifestyle stories. Vanessa has a excellent interest in food, fitness, beauty, health and home.
Kate is the travel editor for news.com.au and has been working for the company for six years after graduating from Sydney's University of Technology. Kate is a keen explorer of the world who writes about the latest and most interesting aspects of travel. Her travel highlights include Abu Dhabi, Peru, Argentina, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. Kate loves the way the news can inspire and amaze people, and can even bring about switch.
Lauren is the travel reporter for news.com.au. She worked on Sydney's suburban newspaper circuit before spending two years as senior news reporter with mX newspaper, covering the sublime to the ridiculous, as well as all the big, cracking news from across Australia and around the world. She has penned food reviews, travel lumps and racked up an awesome list of A-list interviews.
Melissa is a journalist and media commentator who is obsessed with every tentacle of popular culture. As the entertainment and style editor-at-large at news.com.au her role is the ideal combination of everything she loves about sharing news. Melissa is a regular commentator on Sunrise, The Morning Display and The Daily Edition as well as the go-to radio commentator on all things pop culture and style.
Andrew is an entertainment reporter for news.com.au. He was a breakfast radio producer for seven years before determining that he is much better suited to a job that doesn't require he be in bed by 7.30pm. He loves tracking down celebrities for a quick talk, and has spoken to Lady Gaga, Chris Rock, Usher and Merlin from Big Brother (the latter was a lot lighter to track down).
Bronte is an entertainment reporter at news.com.au. She's been a journalist for six years, covering news and entertainment for major media outlets across the country, including Nova, Triple M, 2DayFM and Channel Nine's Today Demonstrate, before joining news.com.au. When Bronte's not at work keeping up with the Kardashians, she's at home keeping up with the Kardashians. She also performed in the Sydney two thousand Olympic opening ceremony – but that's a story for another time. She tweets @brontecoy.
James is an entertainment reporter for news.com.au. Having written for newspapers and worked as a producer for ABC radio and The Kyle & Jackie O Display, he's now lodged in at Australia's number one news site. He sometimes writes mean things about reality TV and is genuinely worried former contestants from The Bachelor will band together and harm him. Loves a carbohydrate.
Entertainment reporter Nick Bond has worked as a journalist for over a decade now, getting his embark as the entertainment editor of Australia's most respected LGBT publication, the Starlet Observer. Since then he's worked in TV as online producer for Channel 7's Sunday Night current affairs program, and recently spent a year in London as the Web Editor for Attitude Magazine. A paramour of all things pop, celebrity gossip and trashy reality TV, Nick doesn't consider the calendar year has officially commenced until the next season of Real Housewives of Melbourne premieres.
Matthew is the technology editor at news.com.au. After a brief stint as North Queensland's premier dating columnist and Townsville Bulletin's digital editor, he made his way to news.com.au to report on all things tech, plus a few stories about his cat Willow. He is also the host of tech review movie series UnDunn. It's pretty good – that's what he will tell you.
Nick is a technology reporter with a love of politics and he's a rugby tragic. While studying at UTS Nick worked in community radio at 2SER and spent time as a digital media assistant in the Sydney offices of international aid agency Caritas. An avid sportsman, his largest claim to fame is having a hit with grand catapult winner Mary Pierce.
An award-winning journalist and former lawyer, Dana is the finance editor for news.com.au. While her legal career was short-lived, it was illuminating enough that Dana is yet to be sued for defamation. Within minutes of framing her admission certificate, she walked into a UTS Journalism open day and found her true calling. After training as a News Corp cadet in Victoria, Dana spent three years at Leader Newspapers where she won two Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards.
Frank is a finance reporter for news.com.au. He previously worked for media publication AdNews and has also written for The Canberra Times, The Courier-Mail, The Queensland Times and the Ipswich Advertiser. In his free time he gets older.
Originally from Adelaide, Jai is a journalist with more than a decade practice in the industry – including the past three at news.com.au. He has covered a range of international events, including the Olympics, and is a keen follower of the AFL, NFL, NBA, UFC, surfing and boxing.
James joined the news.com.au team as a sports reporter while still studying, a job that suited him flawlessly as he always preferred watching sport to sitting in lecture theatres. He has a passion for cricket, tennis, rugby league, AFL and football, and is always keen to learn more about the ever-changing world of journalism. James stands out as the only member of the sports desk incapable of growing a beard (even if he'll never admit to it).
Tyson is a sports reporter at news.com.au. After completing a sports journalism degree at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, he joined The Daily Telegraph as a sports reporter with a concentrate on the NRL and AFL before moving to the position of sports editor at mX Newspaper in Sydney. He has covered everything from Tiger Forest' chipping to wood-chopping.
Alex is a sports reporter for news.com.au. A large fan of cricket, rugby and tennis, Alex likes telling the story behind the stories and finding the quirkiest yarns possible. When you can't find him at the office, he'll be at another gig with his band or recording the next No. One hit.
Also known as Issey G, Isabelle is a social media editor with news.com.au. Three years working as a social media producer at Nine Network Australia for The Today Demonstrate witnessed Isabelle develop an interest in news and current events. She's always on the lookout for stories that spark social commentary and conversation. When not trawling the web for the latest social media crazes, you will find her on the dance floor.
Lucy commenced at News Corp in two thousand sixteen as a graduate journalist who had been sharpening her claws in lifestyle journalism before joining News DNA as SEO content specialist. When she isn't providing SEO headlines for the rest of the team, she'll write a yarn on anything, from health and fitness to style and food and is glad to put her figure on the line in the name of beauty.
Raffaella has a postgraduate degree in Digital Communication and a background in writing. She is an integral part of the SEO team. When she's not optimising our yarns for Google, she loves writing up environmental and lifestyle news, especially if it involves food. This last passion has resulted in the secondary (unofficial) title of Office Foodie.
