Phil Coorey | |
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Nationality | Australian |
Occupation | Journalist |
Years active | 1998–present |
Employer | The Australian Financial Review |
Awards | Paul Lyneham Award (2012) |
Phillip Coorey is an Australian journalist, currently serving as the political editor for The Australian Financial Review .
Coorey has covered federal politics since 1998, beginning as political correspondent for The Advertiser . In 2003, he spent two years as a New York correspondent for News Corp Australia, before returning to Canberra as the political editor of The Advertiser. [1]
He became chief political correspondent at Fairfax Media's The Sydney Morning Herald in 2006. During his seven years at the paper, he gained a reputation for being a journalist with key contacts on both sides of politics, who breaks major political stories. [2] He won the Paul Lyneham Award for Canberra press gallery excellence in 2012 and again in 2013. [3] In 2012, Coorey defected to sister newspaper The Australian Financial Review. [4]
Coorey also regularly appears on political panel television programs such as Insiders and Speers Tonight . [2]
Coorey is married to Fleur Anderson, a fellow journalist at The Australian Financial Review. [5] [6]
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