Jill Baker (publisher)

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Jill Baker is an Australian journalist and current editor of the weekend edition of the Melbourne tabloid the Herald Sun .

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Career

Baker has worked as a journalist at The Australian , Melbourne daily The Age , and The Herald. She has also been deputy editor of The Age and the Herald Sun, and editor of The Sunday Age. Baker also spent time at ACP Magazines as a group publisher. [1] She is currently editor of the weekend edition of the Herald Sun . [2]

Awards

Baker won a 2011 Walkley Award in the Newspaper Feature Writing category for her article The Big C and Me. [3] The story chronicled a year in Baker's life in which she received a cancer diagnosis and treatment following her husband's unexpected death, and also won her a Quill Awards Gold Quill and a Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Excellence in Journalism. [2] [4]

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References

  1. "Meet the Walkely Advisory Board". The Walkley Foundation. Archived from the original on 12 March 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  2. 1 2 Brook, Stephen (24 July 2012). "Jill Baker takes Herald Sun weekend editing role". The Australian . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  3. "Jill Baker's tale of courage wins Walkley Award". Herald Sun. 28 November 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  4. "Powerful tale of cancer survival tops News Awards for journalism". The Australian. 5 November 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2013.