Business Journalistsin Australia

AdNews focuses on how corporate decisions, campaigns and industry recognition shape the wider communications market, linking company moves and sector trends to their impact on regional audiences, traditional channels and people working in news and adland. It covers the business of media, marketing and advertising, tying deals, awards and campaigns to how the ecosystem functions day to day. Its reporting follows regional television and restructuring around Nine’s stations, explains why regional TV matters commercially, and combines transaction news with audience and pricing analysis. Long reads track traditional media recovery after COVID‑19 through agency views and budget shifts. AdNews treats journalists, mastheads and awards as business assets and reports on campaigns and marketing aimed at business owners, profiling data tools like Standard Media Index to show how entrepreneurial ideas become industry infrastructure.

Adrian Black is a business reporter who treats regulation, court action and economic shocks as core business terrain, not side issues. He writes for The Canberra Times, covering corporate conduct, legal and market consequences of misleading investors, and concrete risks from technology, crime and volatile costs. His recent work centres on detailed coverage of the fallout from Regional Express profit forecasts and losses, tracking ASIC’s case, courtroom arguments and continuous disclosure mechanics in the NSW Supreme Court. He follows contested cases over time, parses formal statements, and connects legal developments to reputational damage, shareholder confidence and governance standards. Beyond litigation, he reports on rising fuel and energy costs, unpaid invoices and money mule schemes as operational risks, and examines how AI changes careers, always tying abstract forces back to specific businesses, workers and the choices they face.

Adrian Leung is a technically precise reporter on Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers, distinguished by deep coverage of engineering specifications, thermal management systems, and performance metrics often ignored by business media. He writes on Chinese EV makers including BYD, Nio, Leapmotor, Xiaomi, and others, examining their manufacturing strategies, market positioning, and production developments. His Electrical and Computer Engineering background informs detailed analysis of battery thermal management, torque outputs, battery capacities, and thermal performance metrics, including case studies like BYD’s Flash Charging system and e4 motor system. Leung tracks new model launches and refreshes with exact dimensions, pricing, and export timelines, and reports on broader auto industry profits, production volumes, and margins. He also covers battery technology and solid-state battery delays, translating complex chemistry and semiconductor supply chain issues into clear, business-focused insights.

Alex Gluyas is distinct for tracking how investor flows, valuation pressures and structural shifts shape the Australian sharemarket, with a particular focus on equities and the technology sector. He is a markets reporter at the Australian Financial Review covering major asset classes, regularly writing about equities, commodities and currency markets. His core beat is equity markets and ASX trading dynamics, where he follows ASX performance, trading conditions, sector moves and trading behaviour, including record online activity and volatility driven by algorithmic trading firms, hedge funds, passive flows and superannuation funds. He reports live on how local shares respond to global moves, political shocks and company news, using performance data and fund manager commentary. He often focuses on technology stocks, AI and valuation risk, and analyses market structure, including ASX shrinkage and rising concentration in the S&P/ASX 200.

Alex Gluyas is a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review who links fund manager strategy, trading flows and sector shifts into one clear equity market story. He covers Australian equities and the ASX, explaining how professional investors, concentration risk, sector rotation and stock‑specific moves drive index performance. His work spans front‑page markets pieces, weekend features, regular online coverage and intraday commentary for the Markets Live blog across equities, commodities and currency markets. He reports on mining rallies, underperforming technology and healthcare stocks, “ASX dogs”, global tech giants, private equity themes and the impact of retail, algorithmic and passive trading on volatility and short selling. He relies on fund manager case studies, mandates and performance data to show how investor decisions and market structure shape share prices and returns.

Alex Harring turns fast-moving market and economic developments into disciplined premarket briefings that prepare readers before the opening bell. He is a reporter at CNBC covering markets and economics, with emphasis on financial markets, consumer trends and the U.S. economy. He writes Morning Squawk, CNBC’s flagship daily newsletter on the biggest investing and business news ahead of the trading day, knitting corporate news, macro data, policy shifts and investor sentiment into concise rundowns. His coverage centers on earnings, guidance, sector moves, consumer demand, and how policy, geopolitics and economic data feed into indices and market sentiment. He also produces cross-platform explainers and data-driven social videos on unemployment, wealth inequality and the “K-shaped” economy. Earlier, he reported on business, technology and local economies at national and regional outlets, including economic reopening and pandemic impacts on business.

Alison Branley stands out for turning health, education and social policy into stories about how systems affect ordinary people. She reports for the ABC as part of its Specialist Reporting Team, and her work appears online, on radio and television. Her beat covers national health, disability, education and social affairs, with a strong focus on vulnerable groups, family violence, childcare access and the consequences of system failure. She has worked for News Ltd and Fairfax and has won two Walkley Awards. She covers corporate moves in health care, public health risk, school discipline and early intervention, and she uses data, expert interviews, family audio and lived experience to explain what policy and business decisions mean in daily life.

Andrew Colley focuses on how technical and regulatory change in telecommunications and business technology turn into commercial outcomes for carriers, enterprises and vendors. He is associate editor at iTnews, covering IT, telco, B2B business technology and digital policy through news and analysis. He reports on telecommunications markets, spectrum costs, network investment and market structure as business stories, following carrier strategies, wholesale arrangements and infrastructure rollout. He tracks government digital policy and AI oversight, examining oversight bodies, committee processes and party engagement with telcos in terms of industry impact. His beat also includes corporate technology investment, executive appointments, AI use in operations, and technology‑related financial risk in sectors such as cloud and training. He brings long experience in technology journalism, including a decade as a senior technology and business journalist and web editor for a national newspaper and contributions to specialist business technology outlets.

Anna McGuinness reports on how decisions by institutions and businesses shape the lives of people in regional communities, using courts, community campaigns and local culture as her lens. She is a reporter with ABC News Central Victoria working across text and audio, including narrative podcasts. Her beat centres on courts, crime and accountability, following criminal and civil cases from the courtroom to the people affected by verdicts, and keeping complex legal proceedings clear for a general audience. She has reported on the Timothy Loosemore trial, the Nicky Winmar assault case, and the unpaid civil damages owed to Christy Fenton, consistently foregrounding victims’ voices and real-world consequences. Her business and culture reporting examines how corporate plans, festival decisions and crimes against artists’ livelihoods test community identity, trust and resilience. She works in straight news, explanatory features and multi-episode audio, with tight case studies, clear timelines and direct quotes.

Ayesha de Kretser is a senior reporter at The Australian Financial Review whose coverage treats aviation, travel demand and loyalty schemes as financial systems shaped by shareholder pressure, policy and technology. She covers the aviation and tourism sectors, bringing a business and regulatory lens to how carriers and travel operators run and grow, with a particular focus on airline competition, Qantas, Virgin and new low-cost challengers. Her work ties airline decisions to traveller experience and the broader tourism economy, and is informed by prior reporting on banks, payments, crypto, inflation, wages and corporate risk. She frequently situates company news within regulation, privacy, legal exposure and data protection, and also writes on publishing and technology platforms. Across news stories and podcast appearances, she uses FOI material, regulatory documents, confidential sources and corporate disclosures to connect boardroom strategy with operational detail and customer impact.

Bec Wilson sits at the intersection of modern retirement, money and lived experience, treating the second half of life as a long, evolving stage rather than a fixed endpoint. She is an author, podcaster, columnist and educator, known for clear explanations of superannuation, health insurance and policy changes for everyday people. She writes a weekly syndicated money and superannuation column for major newspapers and a weekly Epic Retirement newsletter for pre- and post-retirees, and hosts the podcast Prime Time with Bec Wilson. Her reporting focuses on retirement savings systems, contribution rules, advice fees, pension entitlements, health cover and longer life expectancy. She uses lists, scenarios and plain language to show how regulation and product design affect real decisions, giving readers practical questions, step‑by‑step checks and tools to build resilient retirement plans grounded in health, purpose and financial confidence.

Bethany Alvaro stands out for her specialised coverage at the intersection of aviation business, defence technology, and cybersecurity, offering technically precise, industry-focused reporting. She is Deputy Editor at Cyber Daily and contributes across Momentum Media’s portfolio, including Space Connect, AI Daily, Defence Connect, and Australian Aviation. Her beat includes defence aviation programs, drone technology, airline performance, and cybersecurity for aviation and defence infrastructure. She reports on C-130J program deliveries, defence readiness for evacuations, drone cybersecurity systems, SYPAQ CorvoX and Quantum Vector platforms, and UAS certification milestones. She analyses airline financials and strategy, including Jetstar metrics, Qantas’ $1.46 billion underlying profit before tax, Link Airways’ expansion, and Dubai route decisions. Her podcast work adds business intelligence and humanitarian context, translating complex technical and financial detail into clear, actionable analysis.

Brianna Morris-Grant is a journalist for ABC News who focuses on how powerful institutions in business, technology and government wield influence, using documents, data and expert voices to show how decisions ripple through markets and everyday life. She covers large technology companies, AI and corporate battles, corporate responses to emerging threats, and demographic and economic trends. She reports on political and judicial fights through legal filings and government records, including cases involving Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, a major political assassination and US gun violence. She writes on global conflict, crime and security, including a Long Island serial killer case, the war in Ukraine, and tensions between Israel and Iran. She also covers research on social media, climate and mental health, and writes cultural features and live coverage on figures like Harry Houdini and Barry Humphries, and major entertainment events.

Brittney Levinson is a Queensland reporter for The Australian Financial Review whose work connects large energy and infrastructure projects with the daily realities of farmers, startups, service providers and households. She covers how energy transition, technology investment and economic policy shape business conditions, focusing on regional projects, battery storage deals and the business logic of mergers and acquisitions. She reports on deep tech and health-focused startups, explaining how research and development funding rules and tax incentives affect commercialisation and capital-intensive ventures. Her background as a politics and public service reporter informs coverage of budgets, debt debates, state party politics and public sector impacts. She also reports on property, hospitality, fuel prices and cost-of-living pressures, using direct testimony and on-the-ground detail to show how corporate decisions and policy settings flow through to local businesses and everyday life.

Byron Hurd covers how car culture, infrastructure, and regulation collide, focusing on the business and policy forces that shape what people drive and how they move around. He is an editor at The Drive who concentrates on infrastructure and regulatory stories, using a light, punchy style on complex subjects about how transportation is built and funded. He explains how roads and public works are financed, why accountability is fragmented, and how road network design and traffic engineering affect everyday outcomes for drivers. He tracks how automakers and suppliers use technology, screens, automation, and charging infrastructure to cut costs and create new revenue. He reports on sales practices, AI, and consumer trust, showing how information asymmetry and advertising distort the market. He also connects enthusiast culture and product decisions, drawing on past comparison tests and personal essays at other automotive outlets.

Caitlin Cassidy is a Guardian Australia reporter focused on the business of public institutions and the consequences of their choices. She covers corporate decisions where they intersect with public services, policy and everyday life, especially in sectors like airlines, universities and research bodies. Her work on Qantas, grant suspensions for academics and debates over definitions of antisemitism shows a beat grounded in money, governance, regulation and accountability. She treats education and civic institutions as business entities, following decisions from cabinet or board level through to campuses, classrooms and local communities. Cassidy reports largely in a straight news format, using clear timelines, specific figures and named decisions, and adds an explanatory layer that maps systems and structures around each incident. Her stories start with concrete events and widen to the institutional context, always returning to who holds power and how it is exercised.

Cara Waters is city editor for The Age, examining how business, politics, culture and infrastructure intersect in city life. She covers the systems and spaces that make a modern city work, from airports, streets and parks to cultural venues and major events. Her reporting ranges from transport and planning news and close coverage of local elections and budgets to features on neighbourhood character and the people who shape it. Waters draws on a long background in startups and small business reporting, including time as startups and technology editor and as editor and senior reporter at business and financial publications. She focuses on how planning rules, budgets and regulation affect small businesses, urban design, heritage sites and everyday services, often telling these stories through entrepreneurs, workers and residents, with a recurring interest in hospitality, tourism, food and travel.

Caroline Zielinski is a property reporter for The Age who uses the housing market to tell stories about inequality, identity and changing social norms. She focuses on how housing conditions shape people’s lives, returning to who the system works for and who it leaves behind. Her beat includes housing stress, the promise and reality of home ownership, intergenerational tensions around wealth and access, renters’ rights, minimum standards, and life at the bottom end of the market. She reports through specific households and case studies, linking policy settings and regulatory gaps to lived experience. Alongside newsroom work, she has a long background as a freelance journalist and essayist with interests in women, health, work and social inequality, which informs her property coverage and her character-driven stories about homes, design and urban living.

Catie McLeod is Guardian Australia’s consumer affairs reporter, and she was the first person in that role at the masthead’s Australian operation. She covers how business decisions, market structures and regulation affect everyday consumers, with a beat that spans consumer markets, supermarket behaviour, regulators, public safety, public services and online scams. Her reporting often focuses on price, fairness and accountability, from Coles and Woolworths promotions to asbestos contamination, childcare costs, library access and “ghost stores” using false local identities. She writes in clear, direct prose and builds stories around affected people, then explains the business and regulatory systems behind their experiences.

Chris Chamberlin focuses on the intersection of travel, loyalty and business, showing readers how to get more value from airline cabins, hotel stays and frequent flyer points. He now writes business coverage for The Age built around practical explainers and consumer analysis of travel products, fares and perks. His reporting on airlines and business travel examines cabin products, lounge access, service changes, carrier strategies and passenger experience, including the impact of partnerships and alliances on premium frequent flyer benefits. He specialises in frequent flyer points and loyalty programs, explaining earning structures, redemption charts, status tiers and elite perks so people can travel better for less. He also covers accommodation and travel services, with award-recognised features on hotels and opinion pieces on car hire charges and consumer rights. His work appears across general news and business mastheads including The Age, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, Bloomberg, Brisbane Times, Canberra Times, Business Traveller and Executive Traveller.

Chris Chilton is a senior editor at Carscoops whose work stands out for treating individual car programs, websites, code, and interfaces as windows into wider shifts in the global car business. He is a seasoned automotive journalist with more than two decades of experience at leading automotive titles, and now focuses on how automakers make, price, and position their products. He covers affordability, platform strategy, recalls, EV brand perception, and digital retail, tying corporate decisions, regulation, and technology to specific models on the road. His reporting blends hard numbers, product detail, and industry context, using recall statistics, survey data, and leaked pricing in web backends to explain risk, compliance, and demand trends. Across business, policy, history, and enthusiast pieces, he writes as a long-time car enthusiast with a clear, fact-driven view of brand strategy.

Christopher Wright treats business developments in heavy industry and fossil fuels as climate stories, focusing on how corporate deals, asset sales and policy changes shape the energy transition. He writes commentary on the business beat for Renew Economy, with a particular emphasis on coal, iron ore and emerging low‑carbon technologies. His coal coverage examines how ownership changes, compliance frameworks and weak oversight can lock in future emissions, let pollution slip through inventories and shift rehabilitation obligations. He tracks the move from iron ore exports to green steel as a structural change for miners, investors and industry, highlighting who wins and loses as capital reallocates. He also co‑authors op‑eds on China’s methane policy, linking corporate and policy decisions to global energy markets and emissions. His reporting uses facts and specialist collaboration to build argument‑driven analysis of climate, investment and long‑term risk.

Clare Sibthorpe is a crime reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald. She focuses on court and crime, with a strong beat in high-stakes criminal trials, organized crime, and domestic violence. She reports from inside courtrooms and documents legal proceedings closely. Her work has covered the Gareth Ward trial, including complex evidence such as video footage, and cases involving the Alameddine family, including child grooming charges and bail arguments. She also analyses long-term domestic violence patterns and has linked individual cases to wider failures in victim protection. Sibthorpe has worked in newsrooms in Australia, the UK and the Middle East, and shared a Walkley Award for business journalism.

Danielle Pope is a multi-platform ABC News reporter who covers how economic change, new industries and environmental pressures intersect with everyday life and regional communities. She reports across radio, online and TV, explaining finance and business in plain terms and grounding national policy stories in the realities of local jobs, small businesses and primary producers. Her beat includes energy transition, industry change and emerging low-carbon sectors, as well as the business impacts of policy decisions, major events and cost-of-living pressures. She frequently reports on environmental change, science and coastal communities, linking marine health, cultural heritage and environmental contamination to tourism, fisheries and local economies. Her work spans packaged radio pieces, long-form online features and television news, and she describes herself as an author and MC focused on making complex economic and policy issues accessible and engaging.

David Adams is a senior business journalist whose reporting acts as a bridge between policy debate and practical business decision making for small and medium‑sized enterprises. He works at SmartCompany, following the small business sector and connecting political, regulatory and economic change to the day‑to‑day realities of founders, employers and growing companies. He writes news, funding round wrap‑ups and analysis on issues like rules, compliance demands, cash flow and growth plans, using plain language to break down complex frameworks. His beat includes startup funding and growth stories across Australia and New Zealand, tracking capital flows and investor interest. Across SmartCompany and specialist outlets including Women’s Agenda, Flying Solo and The Mandarin, he keeps a consistent focus on the challenges and opportunities facing Australian entrepreneurs and small business owners.

David Flynn treats business travel as a premium consumer beat, focusing on how airline products, airport lounges and loyalty schemes work for people who travel often for work. He is a senior editorial figure at Executive Traveller, shaping coverage for executive travellers and frequent flyers who want independent, detailed reporting on the experience of flying and staying on the road. He concentrates on the premium travel market and airline products, especially new and refreshed cabins, lounges and service concepts. He highlights design, amenities, access rules, operating hours and capacity, always tied to work, rest and real itineraries. He reports on frequent flyer schemes and loyalty strategies, explaining program changes, eligibility rules, partner networks and thresholds. His tone is measured and descriptive, avoiding anecdotal travelogues and jargon, with clear, structured information for time-poor but detail-hungry readers.

David Marin-Guzman is a workplace correspondent at The Australian Financial Review whose distinct work follows unions, employers and tribunals over long stretches, linking criminal exposures, policy debates and leadership decisions across the same institutions. He covers industrial relations, workplace policy and leadership, focusing on how power, law and technology shape conditions at work. His beat includes union strategies, employer responses, strikes, multi-employer bargaining and union behaviour in national politics. He is a prominent voice on AI, digital surveillance and unfair dismissal claims, and his investigative reporting on the construction sector, the CFMEU and organised crime helped earn a Gold Walkley for the “Building Bad” series. He reports news, analysis, commentary and long-form investigations, and extends his coverage of unions and workplace culture on The Fin podcast. Earlier experience as a film critic informs his narrative approach.

Dominic Cansdale is a reporter with the ABC whose work sits at the intersection of business, technology and the way economic change reshapes communities, with a particular focus on growth, regulation and digital life. He tracks how long-term development plans and demographic shifts translate into pressures on housing and local economies, using density targets, infrastructure corridors and approval data to show how planning decisions affect market realities and migration. He reports on pandemic-era moves to regional areas, culture clashes and class gaps, treating housing, council strategy and migration as business and policy issues. Another strand of his work covers cybersecurity, online reputations and regulation, and he also examines coastal risk, tourism, shark control programs and beach culture. He contributes longform and audio stories on memory, war, multiculturalism and rural enterprise, using detailed local reporting to illuminate wider economic and technological change.

Dorina Pojani writes about how the built environment shapes everyday life, treating cities as systems where urban design, mobility and housing are tightly linked. She writes for The Conversation alongside an academic career in urban planning. Her coverage centres on the built environment triad and shows how transport networks, public spaces and housing markets interact to affect affordability, access and equity. She reports on “forever renting,” car dependence and transport choices, drawing on academic research and comparative examples. She focuses on public transport quality, active transport, car-free living and the mobility of people without private vehicles, and on how disruptions such as COVID-19 change commuting patterns. She often examines how gender and power relations are embedded in planning, using feminist perspectives to connect large-scale urban projects and capital city visions to the daily lives of renters, commuters and residents.

Dunja Karagic is a multi-platform reporter for ABC Kimberley whose work tracks how economic and social conditions shape life in Western Australia. She covers how policy, public services and business decisions play out in housing, disability care and regional communities, often exposing failures in systems meant to protect vulnerable people. Her reporting examines government-managed and funded housing, focusing on property quality, maintenance standards, contracts and oversight, and the impact of housing scarcity on survivors of domestic violence. She reports on disability services with attention to care standards, regulatory accountability and the effects of funding arrangements on residents. Karagic also covers regional economies, policing, local events and public institutions, using on-the-ground reporting and visual evidence. Her frontline work builds on experience in investigative and long-form ABC projects, national current affairs and cultural radio programs.

Edmund Tadros is the professional services editor at The Australian Financial Review. He leads coverage of the professional services sector, with a sharp focus on accounting and consulting firms, especially large global partnerships. His beat covers firm conduct, audit mandates, corporate governance, regulation, public policy, political donations, government outsourcing and the PwC tax leaks matter. He is known for sustained, data-informed investigations into conflicts of interest, internal failings and the way these firms influence corporate decisions and government spending. He also writes about work and careers, including labour-market pressure, management training and professional life inside complex organisations.

Eleanor Dickinson is a chief reporter at Mumbrella who focuses on how technology, brand strategy and advertising intersect in the media and marketing economy, with an emphasis on commercial results. A tech and business journalist with more than a decade of experience across multiple international markets, she follows the business decisions behind campaigns, platforms and martech rather than only the creative output. She covers technology-led campaigns and AI in marketing, including how major brands and platforms use artificial intelligence and data tools to reshape media buying, creative production and campaign economics. Dickinson reports on martech platforms such as Canva, CMO-led brand growth strategies, and advertising standards and regulatory interventions. Her work is reported news and analysis, grounded in executive interviews, regulatory decisions and product announcements, always tied to business outcomes for media, brands and platforms.

Elias Visontay is a consumer affairs reporter who treats corporate behaviour as a human story, tracking how business decisions in consumer-facing industries affect workers and customers. He works across The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, covering business where everyday people feel the consequences most directly. His reporting centres retail staff, rideshare passengers, ticketing customers and motorists, with recurring focus on frontline worker strain, retail crime, rideshare safety failures and workplace obligations. He examines corporate decisions and leadership changes at major retailers, ticketing firms and automakers, linking governance and strategy to consumer impact. His work also explores transport, technology and protest tactics, including self-driving tools, automotive manufacturing shifts and disruptive climate activism. Alongside this beat, he has reported breaking public safety news and appears in audio and video, extending his accountability reporting across formats.

Elizabeth Redman links housing market data with the lived experience of buyers, sellers and renters, showing how policy shifts and price cycles play out in auctions, rental listings and household budgets. She is the national property editor at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, leading coverage of residential property, housing affordability and the business of real estate. Her beat spans housing market cycles, auction performance, rents, shared equity and “help to buy” schemes, interest rates, credit conditions and record-breaking penthouse sales. She reports by pairing hard numbers on reserves, sale prices, rent levels, income caps and price caps with case studies and auction room detail. Her work includes feature-style pieces on what different budgets can buy and suburb-level trends, and earlier general news and crime reporting, all delivered in a direct, fact-heavy style with clear numbers and concrete examples.

Elizabeth Redman is the national property editor at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, known for connecting market data, policy settings and household stories to show how housing shifts affect buyers, renters and investors. She covers business and finance with a focus on residential property, housing affordability and housing policy for a Victorian and national audience. Her reporting tracks housing market cycles and auction trends using clearance rates, auction volumes and price indices, breaking down technical indicators into plain language supported by charts and graphics. She writes on housing affordability, social mobility and who gains or misses out when property values surge. She examines investors, first-home buyers and owner-occupiers through lending data, and reports on regional markets and short-stay rentals, blending statistics, policy context and lived experience from affected communities.

Elizabeth Redman focuses on who manages to buy homes, under what conditions, and how policy and market structures shape their choices, not just on headline prices. She is the national property editor at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald and holds a senior news role at Domain, covering residential property, housing affordability and housing policy for Victorian and national audiences. Her core beat is where individual buyers and sellers meet broader affordability pressures, with close coverage of first-home buyers, entry-level homes, investors and owner-occupiers. She reports how investor retreat, lending settings, policy shifts and market sentiment change access to specific types of stock. Her stories are steeped in market data, auction trends, weekly price movements and record sales, treating high-end deals as signals about demand and supply and using clear, business and finance reporting to explain impacts on buyers, sellers, investors and policymakers.

Emilia Terzon is a national business reporter at the ABC who treats corporate and economic stories as coverage of power, technology and everyday life rather than just figures on a balance sheet. She has worked across the organisation since 2014 in various reporting roles and has covered bushfires, federal elections, the COVID-19 pandemic and Royal Commissions. Her business reporting links boardroom decisions and market shifts to their consequences for consumers, workers and smaller firms. She covers supermarkets and consumer scams, artificial intelligence and big tech deals, property, publishing and the cost of living, markets, trade and economic shocks. Her work ranges from detailed features and daily market wraps to short-form explainers and broadcast segments. Across television, radio, digital and social platforms, she makes complex economic stories clear and grounds them in ordinary people’s lives.

Emily McPherson is a senior reporter at Nine.com.au whose business and economic coverage is driven by a clear social justice lens. She focuses on how corporate decisions, workplace practices and public policy affect people’s lives, with a strong emphasis on workers and workplace rights, class actions and underpayment. Her reporting tracks insecure work, pandemic unemployment and welfare gaps, showing how policy settings translate into cost-of-living pressure, housing insecurity and strain on families. She covers small businesses built on social media platforms and the risks of online fraud, examining how dependence on tech companies shapes livelihoods. McPherson also reports on law reform, health and women’s rights, using individual stories to explain complex scientific and legal issues and to situate personal narratives within wider struggles over gender equality and civil liberties.

Ewin Hannan stands out for bringing an industrial relations lens to the politics and business of work. He is workplace editor at The Australian, where he covers wage disputes, workplace law, bargaining, unions, employers and government, and explains how policy and enterprise negotiations affect industries, companies and workers. He specialises in industrial relations and the wider world of work, with a focus on pay, conditions, labour hire, contractor status, gig work, productivity and workforce participation. His reporting tracks industrial campaigns over time and shows the detail of regulation, union strategy, employer responses and the practical effects of workplace reforms. He has also worked as a senior journalist and columnist on workplace and public policy issues, and as a frequent guest on broadcast programs, he unpacks major workplace reforms and wage debates.

Frank Chung is a senior journalist at News.com.au who stands out for linking complex policy, business and controversy to practical consequences for people’s money, safety and rights. He works across local and international breaking news, politics, culture, media and technology, but focuses on how decisions by governments, corporations and institutions play out in real life. His business reporting explains tax and investment rules, using clear numerical examples to show how policy settings reshape returns for long‑term savers and investors. He also covers corporate, legal and health disputes, treating individual cases as part of wider questions about product safety, disclosure and corporate responsibility. His stories on politics, culture, social trends and remote crises follow the same method: identify where rules and power structures are changing, map the mechanics and spell out who gains and who loses, in accessible reported news and analysis pieces.

Harrison Christian stands out for narrative-driven economic analysis that ties market trends to human stories. He writes for news.com.au and covers Australian property economics, with a focus on housing price predictions, expert disagreements, and the impact on household financial decisions. His reporting also looks at trans-Tasman economic relationships and Pacific business developments. He draws on a background as a nonfiction author on exploration history and societal change, and he uses historical context to frame current business reporting within longer economic cycles and policy change. With a decade of reporting experience in New Zealand, he turns complex economic ideas into clear, accessible stories without oversimplifying them.

Heather Handley links deep geoscience expertise with clear public explainers on how Earth’s processes shape energy systems, resources and risk. She writes for The Conversation as a volcanologist and geoscience communicator and is Senior Curator of Geoscience at Museums Victoria Research Institute. Her work grounds business and policy questions in detailed Earth science, focusing on volcanology, energy and Earth’s resources. She explains subsurface energy and resource issues such as superhot geothermal rocks in practical terms for infrastructure, industry and communities. She often uses concrete examples like meteorites, crystals and volcanic rocks to make hazards, geothermal power and resource stories tangible. Her straight explainer style breaks down scientific concepts step by step, then sets out what they mean for everyday decisions, hazard preparedness and long-term planning, including how societies tap or live with Earth’s energy.

Irina Slav tracks how shifts in global energy markets move prices, reshape supply, and expose vulnerabilities in the oil and gas business. She is a writer for OilPrice, where since 2007 she has covered the oil and gas industry, energy security, and commodities with a focus on the links between market data, geopolitics, and corporate decisions. She reports on crude price dynamics, inventory shocks, trade patterns, and institutional forecasts, treating prices, inventory levels, and trade balances as business fundamentals. Her work spans geopolitics, energy security, LNG facilities, offshore drilling, supply chains, and corporate stress in the oil patch, including bankruptcy and executive pay. She has written for business and financial outlets such as Seeking Alpha, Business Insider, Fortune, and Investing.com. She also runs an energy-focused newsletter and appears on podcasts to discuss market volatility, energy transitions, and security risks.

Isabel Vieira focuses on the intersection of breaking corporate news and Western Australia’s resources economy, especially critical minerals, insolvencies and finance-driven stories. She leads breaking news for the masthead, delivering concise, time-stamped updates on market-sensitive developments and how executive decisions, capital structures and commodity deals reshape the business landscape. Isabel reports on resources and critical minerals deals, long-term supply agreements, floor price settings for rare earth magnet materials and leadership changes at major gold operations. Her beat also covers insolvencies, administration processes, turnaround efforts, equity raisings and debt arrangements, treating corporate events as practical financial moves with clear effects on stakeholders. She tracks senior leadership moves and influential business figures, contributes to editorial projects on power and influence, and supplements daily coverage with features and interviews on succession, workplace gender equality and growth journeys.

Jacob Shteyman is a business journalist at The Canberra Times who focuses on how economic policy, housing markets and generational shifts create everyday financial pressure. He links budget settings, tax rules and planning decisions to changes in property investment, rental costs and living standards across age groups. Housing, planning and property are central to his beat, and he treats them as economic stories, from auction activity after the federal budget to planning rules like mandatory car park requirements and their impact on housing affordability. He reports on rental stress, generational inequality, tax returns from gas projects, data centre investment, and whether booms deliver public benefit. His work extends to institutions, politics, social policy, science and community stories, always returning to how decisions by governments and major bodies shape financial and social outcomes for ordinary people.

Jake Angelo exposes the gap between AI hype and its real economic impact, tracking how automation-driven layoffs often fail to deliver promised returns. He reports on AI’s role in corporate performance and workforce dynamics, documenting how companies cut jobs at similar rates regardless of AI’s actual ROI and how AI-related layoffs reached 49,135 in 2026. Angelo also covers generational economic trends, linking grade inflation to reduced earnings and weaker workforce readiness, and reporting on political arguments over responsibility for Gen Z’s struggles. He analyzes market dynamics and corporate strategy, including inflation spikes tied to energy prices, prediction markets on Federal Reserve decisions, and major corporate breakups. Angelo relies on data-driven research, translating complex economic concepts into clear analysis. He reports for Yahoo Finance and is a Newsroom Fellow at Semafor, building on prior experience as a News Fellow at Fortune.

Jake Nelson is a trade-focused journalist who treats aviation and space as industry ecosystems, not just collections of flights and spacecraft. He works across Australian Aviation and Space Connect, covering the commercial side of airlines, airports, aerospace companies, and space businesses. His beat centres on business models, regulation, industry strategy, and how commercial decisions play out in specialist markets. He reports on new airline ventures and airport development, international trade decisions that affect aircraft orders and fleets, and aviation technology and simulation where they change training, safety, and costs. His style is matter-of-fact, with straightforward explanation of what is being proposed and why it matters commercially. He draws on a background in trade journalism across print and packaging, consumer technology, and retirement living and aged care.

James Graham stands out for explaining how regulatory crackdowns and enforcement changes affect the daily reality and business risk of trucking fleets and drivers. He is editor of Big Rigs, a national road transport newspaper focused on industry news and road freight operations, and a key voice on the Big Rigs podcast. His core beat is safety, compliance and commercial risk for transport businesses, with coverage of high‑risk operators, fleet accreditation, grounded trucks and disrupted contracts. He reports using regulator data and direct statements to show how enforcement decisions play out on the road and in operations. Through interviews with enforcement officials, he gives early insight into changing on‑road practices and NHVR reforms. His editorial role links hard news on regulation and safety with broader trucking industry stories and culture.

James Mickleboro turns daily broker research and ASX market moves into clear, numbers‑driven ideas for retail investors. He is an investment writer and analyst with The Motley Fool Australia, where he has covered ASX shares, market news, and broker calls for around a decade, contributing since late 2015. He also works as a financial analyst at a wealth management firm, bringing practitioner experience into his commentary on business and finance. His beat spans broker notes, dividend income strategies, short interest, drawdowns, and ASX sector themes. He focuses on upside, risk, and income, with an emphasis on price targets, percentage returns, dividend yields, valuation multiples, and short‑interest data. His reporting style is fast, structured, and list‑driven, distilling broker language into simple headline numbers and step‑by‑step frameworks that map institutional research onto the needs of individual investors.

James Purtill reports how rapid shifts in technology reshape industries, media and everyday life, treating artificial intelligence, digital platforms and clean energy as infrastructure that rewires information markets and behaviour. He is a technology reporter with the ABC science team, working in long-form features, explainers and news analysis. His beat includes AI and the news business, search and social platforms, electric vehicles, charging systems and solar manufacturing. He covers AI experiments in publishing, search engine answer features, mental health impacts of chatbots, EV uptake and vehicle-to-grid charging, platform growth and decline, changing reading habits and nonlinear optics. He has more than fifteen years of experience across print, radio and digital formats. His reporting combines accessible explanations with close attention to data, business models, policy settings and social impact.

James Smith is a long-term, embedded reporter on the craft beer business who uses awards, festivals and industry trends to show how the sector evolves. He is the founder of The Crafty Pint and a journalist focused on the commercial and cultural dynamics of beer and the wider drinks industry. He combines news, analysis and podcasts with the perspective of someone who has helped shape events such as Good Beer Week and Pint of Origin. He documents brewery competition and collaboration, festival lineups, campaign activity and pandemic-era innovation, treating beers, awards and festivals as entry points into wider questions of sustainability, competition and opportunity. His long-form work examines structural issues like health and wellbeing in beer businesses and traces industry change over time. He reports through deep dives, interviews and contextual trend coverage, giving readers a rounded view of how craft beer operates as an industry and a culture.

James Thomson is a senior Chanticleer columnist who treats markets as a reflection of corporate strategy, policy and real economic pressures on households and workers. He writes for The Australian Financial Review, connecting boardroom decisions, financial markets and the wider economy through analysis rather than straight news. His Chanticleer columns track equity market swings, stock concentration and investor sentiment, using trading patterns to explore risks in modern markets and issues such as liquidity, volatility and central bank decisions. He also tests big advisory themes on productivity, investment and management against conditions facing major companies. Thomson co-hosts a weekly podcast and appears in video segments that extend his market lens into geopolitical and macroeconomic territory. His background includes senior editorial roles in business publications and a focus on how executive decisions, technology and structural change shape jobs, skills and corporate performance.

Jessica Gardner links financial markets, US politics and corporate power, explaining how decisions in Washington and on Wall Street feed through to investors, companies and global influence. She is the United States correspondent for The Australian Financial Review and was previously a deputy editor in the newsroom. She reports across business, markets and politics, focusing on how US policy shifts and political shocks affect investors and corporations. Her work ranges from bond sell‑offs and equity market plunges tied to budgets, tariffs and geopolitical conflict, to governance and culture at major financial institutions. She covers the Trump era, conservative grassroots and US influence in the Indo‑Pacific, judging political strategy through investor reactions and regional power shifts. She also reports on corporate expansion, media competition and US lifestyle and travel, using on‑the‑ground detail and clear explanations to make complex developments legible to readers focused on capital and corporate strategy.

Jessica Wang reports on federal politics through the lens of how policy, spending and privilege work as one system of power. She is a federal politics reporter for The Daily Telegraph, bringing experience from the NSW state politics beat to coverage grounded in the mechanics of government and consequences for institutions and communities. Her work tracks the Albanese government’s agenda, from electric vehicle manufacturing plans and their economic implications to the official gifts received by the prime minister and the rules that govern them. She reports on scrutiny and national trauma, including royal commissions and victim advocacy, linking legal authority, political promises and community expectations. Across articles and short analysis segments on social channels, her reporting uses concrete examples to make complex rules, industrial plans and accountability processes clear to readers.

Jessica Yun tracks the business behind what people buy, eat, and wear. She is a business reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Her beat covers retail, food, beverages, agribusiness, supermarkets, small business, hospitality, and consumer brands. She writes on fashion chains, fast-food operators, supermarkets, and food companies as business stories, not lifestyle pieces. Her reporting connects consumer habits to pricing, supply chains, capital, investor sentiment, funding structures, and corporate behaviour. She has covered General Pants, a Mexican-themed restaurant group, protein products, whey protein shortages, and large gender pay gaps. She often uses explainers and blends narrative with clear business detail.

John Buckley stands out for reporting on the people behind corporate power. He is a CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He covers executives and decision-makers, not abstract markets, with a focus on reputations, crises, influence and accountability inside major companies and institutions. His work often follows corporate redemption, service failures and political or media pressure, using specific episodes to show how leaders respond. He has written for VICE and Capital Brief, and his reporting has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Saturday Paper and Accountants Daily. He writes in a plain, narrative style and keeps the focus on individuals, choices and consequences.

Jordan Mulach is a motoring journalist who treats performance-focused motoring as a business and market story, using race-informed instincts to track how new models, technology and pricing shifts affect both enthusiasts and everyday drivers. He works as Motoring Editor at TorqueCafe, concentrating on product change, pricing and sales data to show where the wider automotive market is heading. His core beat is performance cars in transition, especially the move from traditional manuals to hybrid and automatic drivetrains, along with dual-cab utes, popular hatchbacks and manufacturer-led track and drive events. Electric vehicles and advanced technology are a recurring strand, covered through delivery numbers, brand share and competitive dynamics. Across his work he reports in a direct news format, leading with key mechanical or specification changes and tying them back to market positioning and business strategy.

Katrina Beavan is a long-time ABC reporter whose work ties economic decisions, public systems and policy to the lives of ordinary people. She now reports across digital, radio and television, including appearances on ABC News Breakfast and ABC audio platforms. Her real beat sits at the intersection of business, health and public policy, covering business and property stories with legal stakes, rural enterprise and infrastructure, hospital performance, access to treatment, immigration, environment and community initiatives. She often uses regional case studies, detailed transactions and contracts, and right to information documents to show how court actions, infrastructure policy, health procedures and government decisions shape families and communities. She has reported on the 2010–11 floods, distressed property auctions, rural connectivity, hospital supervision failures, access to cystic fibrosis medication, terminal illness, asylum policy and grassroots “war on waste” efforts.

Kevin Perry is distinct for breaking industry news on broadcast deals and market exits, then explaining the commercial logic and real-world impact for viewers. He is a senior news editor and co-owner at TV Blackbox, covering the business and operations of television, streaming and sports broadcasting. His beat spans TV production, consumer technology, subscription video-on-demand and sports rights, with a focus on contracts, sustainability, ratings and delivery infrastructure. He reports as an experienced media and television commentator, using VOZ ratings and other metrics to track audience performance and read network strategy. His coverage of WIN Network ending Network 10 services in rural markets shows how he combines contractual detail, financial reasoning and the consequences for tens of thousands of viewers, shaping wider discussion about the future of television.

Lalita Chemello uses prompt-driven, conversational reporting to show how the business, technology, and culture of cars shape everyday driving and grassroots motorsport. She is a freelance auto and motorsport writer whose work appears on Yahoo Autos in Jalopnik-branded pieces, as well as across enthusiast, auction, and car culture outlets. She covers how car design, pricing, new tech, and safety claims translate into ownership, value, and behavior at the wheel. Her recurring reader-question series for Yahoo Autos asks owners to share DIY repair wins and failures, budget trade-offs, and opinions on overexposed models, national identity, and honest brand slogans. Chemello also reports as an engaged participant in motorsport and enthusiast communities, writes about celebrity-linked cars and collections, and consistently treats vehicles as lived objects embedded in a wider enthusiast and business ecosystem.

Liana Webster is a journalist who covers how businesses, attractions and events shape the visitor and lifestyle economy, with a focus on South Australian operators turning local momentum into broader recognition. She reports business stories through what they mean for people’s real experiences, from award-winning breweries and new playgrounds to family-friendly dining that fills gaps for locals. Her coverage centres on food, drink and destination-led ventures that act as visitor drawcards, showing how brands build around place and experience, not just product. She often ties business success to what readers can taste, visit or book. She also examines family-focused services, treating convenience and value as core to the offer. Beyond hospitality, she reports on infrastructure, public attractions and event programs, highlighting design, programming mix and economic impact across the wider visitor ecosystem.

Liana Webster is a journalist who tracks how business openings, redevelopments and community projects change everyday life, with a close eye on how spaces are reused and upgraded. She writes for Glam Adelaide, following new venues and attractions from announcement to opening and explaining concepts, trading hours and key details. Her beat spans hospitality launches, leisure and lifestyle developments, awards and milestones, business capability events, government and community funding rounds, new playgrounds and recreational infrastructure, and festivals and cultural programming with a business lens. She reports in a service-focused, detail-rich format that highlights what is new or changing and then anchors it in concrete logistics like locations, dates, facilities and operating hours, helping readers see both consumer experiences and the business activity behind them.

Lily Nothling is a multi-platform reporter who tells cross-platform, human-centred stories about how laws, economic pressures and social trends land in people’s lives, using individual experiences to illuminate broader forces shaping communities. She is a multi-platform reporter for ABC News, filing across television, radio, digital and social platforms. Her generalist brief spans business-adjacent issues, justice, education, environment and culture, with recurring work on law reform, civil liberties, policing changes and cost-of-living, health and consumer pressures. She reports on education, sport, arts, long-form journeys and changing community norms, often linking pop culture, fan communities, niche sports and institutional expectations. Her reporting method is to blend legal and policy detail with character-driven storytelling, giving space to bar owners, community workers, affected families, artists and everyday audiences rather than centring official spokespeople.

Liu Miao treats every EV and battery story as part of the wider energy transition, focusing on how technology, regulation, and business strategy fit together. He writes for CarNewsChina and runs his own English-language newsletter on Chinese car news. His core beat is new energy vehicle batteries, especially sodium-ion and advanced lithium-ion chemistries, where he explains performance, durability, and operating conditions in plain language and hard numbers. He covers megawatt-scale fast charging, showing how hardware design and cooling link to grid demands and station economics. He reports on regulation and industry disputes as concrete constraints on product plans and brand risk. He also tracks global expansion, pricing, and restructuring of Chinese EV makers, treating each launch, listing change, and market entry as a shift in cost, safety, and strategic positioning.

Lucas Baird is a financial journalist at the Australian Financial Review who treats super funds as active financial and political actors. He covers superannuation, wealth managers and the rules that govern them, with a core focus on retirement products, fund design and asset allocation. He reports on how fund money moves, how trustees and regulators respond, and how those choices affect retirees, savers and corporate behaviour. His work has covered funds racing to build retiree products, self-managed super funds, comparative fund performance, capital gains tax changes, the First Guardian collapse, ESG and divestment decisions, and governance failures at Star Entertainment. He writes with data, interviews and close attention to regulation, compliance and investor protection.

Margaret Paul reports on how business decisions and government policy intersect with the lives of workers, consumers and communities, with a clear focus on who gains, who loses and what policy shifts mean on the ground. She covers labour markets, industry pressures and economic change for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, often concentrating on sectors under strain and the ripple effects when markets or supply chains break down. Her work on the soft plastics sector examines an industry at breaking point as waste is diverted overseas. She reports on gig economy reforms, proposed Victorian laws to protect ride-share and delivery workers, and programs to address hospitality staff shortages. She explains economic measures, regulation and state initiatives in clear terms, linking rules and schemes to lived experience. She joined the ABC in 2011 and has worked across radio and television, bringing policy detail together with human stories.

Mark Verhoeven writes business and markets coverage for MSN, with a distinct focus on the investment consequences of large technology shifts such as the AI infrastructure boom. He ties structural themes to specific ASX stock ideas, turning broad trends into concrete opportunities and risks. His beat is ASX-listed companies and sector plays, with close attention to how new technology reshapes capital spending and sector dynamics. He stresses the commercial drivers behind each stock idea, focusing on demand, revenue models, competitive landscape, and the fundamentals of what companies sell, who they sell to, and how trends change those conditions over time. He treats AI as an investment and industrial story, follows the money into data, compute, and connectivity, and writes in short, plain, forward-looking analysis that links clear themes to market performance.

Matt Leedham is a business travel industry specialist with a B2B focus who covers the business-to-business travel industry, trade dynamics, industry partnerships, and professional development. He is the founder of Karryon, where he connects travel industry professionals through reporting on sector developments that affect business operations across the Australasian market and globally. He analyzes the luxury travel segment, including Virtuoso network developments and premium cruise products such as the Avalon Envision’s Panorama Suites in Budapest. He reports on wellness tourism innovation, including Sweden’s travel-prescription healthcare model, and evidence-based destination wellness programs. Through his podcast Into the Hearts of Canada, he explores Canadian sustainable tourism with industry leaders. He also covers airline industry strategy, including route development and campaigns such as Air New Zealand’s South Island restoration and Qantas’ Fly Away.

Matt Mckenzie stands out for covering the business and economic consequences of corporate events, financial markets and major industrial projects. He is a business journalist at The West Australian. He reports on banking and interest rates, corporate collapses and insolvency, and major industrial development and resources. He has covered NWQ Capital Management, Better Way 2 Build and Kwinana’s $30 billion industrial revolution. He writes breaking news and in-depth analysis, with a focus on court orders, regulatory action, lender expectations and what these mean for companies, investors, households and the wider economy. His earlier work at a specialist business outlet included extensive reporting on insolvencies, economics, resources, energy and major projects.

Matt Mckenzie is a business journalist at The West Australian. He stands out for connecting economics, energy and major projects to real effects on businesses and households. He covers inflation, jobs data, cost-of-living pressures, property, infrastructure, resources and trade. His reporting starts with data or a policy change, then drills into what it means for borrowers, homeowners, producers, exporters and public finances. He has unpacked recent jobs figures, covered IMF warnings about inflation, reported on rate-related cost pressures on homeowners, and written on Woodside’s North West Shelf approval, Perth’s cooling property market and big public infrastructure blowouts. Before The West Australian, he spent years at Business News covering economics, resources, energy, major projects and insolvencies. He works in both breaking news and in-depth analysis.

Matthew Kelly links big energy and infrastructure projects to everyday life, showing how major investment shapes the Hunter region’s economy and communities. He is a journalist at the Newcastle Herald with more than 25 years of experience and a focus on energy transition, public investment and regional equity. He reports on coal-to-renewables shifts, grid-scale batteries, industrial land conversions and logistics and clean-energy precinct proposals, always grounding stories in costs, capacity, timelines and household impact. His work also covers budgets, land use, health impacts of coal ash, environmental tensions around development and community initiatives. He reports in a straight news and news-feature style, with strong use of figures and extensive stakeholder voices, and has Walkley-recognised reporting that combines investigative persistence with clear, empathetic human stories.

Melanie Kembrey focuses on the intersection of contemporary books, culture and the business of publishing. She is National Books Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and editor of their arts and culture publication Spectrum. She oversees book coverage including reviews, curated lists, prize reporting and industry stories, and commissions much of the masthead’s literary journalism. Her reporting links bestsellers, prize winners and overlooked titles into clear guidance for general readers. She regularly assembles concise reading lists, foregrounds Australian authors and emerging talent, and judges The Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist award. As Spectrum editor and a host of the Good Weekend Talks podcast, she connects books to wider arts, pop culture and media, using interviews, events and long‑form conversations to show how reading, sales and prizes shape cultural debate.

Melissa Cunningham is a multi-award-winning health reporter at The Age who connects health systems, medicine and regulation with real-world harm, shaped by years of pandemic and crime reporting. She covers exclusive medical and public health stories, focusing on emerging treatments, policy gaps and vulnerable people, with recent investigations into black market peptides used for weight loss, muscle gain and cosmetic benefits. Her work explains complex conditions and shows how contaminated products and unsafe injection practices can turn routine self-treatment into limb-threatening emergencies, setting patient stories alongside clinical and regulatory perspectives. She previously covered crime and justice, reporting on violent offending, stalking, gang attacks, domestic violence and institutional accountability. Across health and justice, she favours in-depth narrative features, detailed court and clinical reporting, and a systems view of how policy and institutional culture shape outcomes.

Neil Dowling is editor at GoAutoNews Premium. He stands out for business-led automotive reporting that focuses on dealer groups, distribution strategy, industry leaders and policy, not the cars themselves. He covers acquisitions, restructures, network expansion, agency sales, subscriptions, car-share, auctions, government contracts, awards, appointments and industry tributes. His stories track how commercial decisions, new business models and regulation affect manufacturers, retailers and service providers. He writes in a trade style, with clear, factual coverage drawn from the day-to-day realities of the market. Earlier, he was editor at GoAuto and wrote for News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide, as well as The West Australian, Western 4WDriver and GoAutoNews.

Nicholas O’Donoghue links day‑to‑day pharmacy business conditions with regulation, workforce pressures and public expectations. He is a senior journalist at the Australian Journal of Pharmacy, writing news, analysis and longer reads on community pharmacy practice, remuneration and the relationship between pharmacies, regulators and government. His reporting on regulation and enforcement covers illicit vaping clampdowns, structural changes to public hospital pharmacy services, risks around peptide use and the business impact of integrity actions. He follows pharmacy workforce, pay and scope of practice, using surveys and wage data to connect policy decisions to financial pressure and staffing realities. He reports on community pressures, patient experience, service innovation and harm minimisation, and contributes Pharmacy History pieces that tie past controversies and regulatory debates to current struggles over scope, pay and public trust.

Nick Bonyhady tracks how rules, technology and power collide in business, using legal and regulatory battles to explain what major companies and institutions do. He is the business editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, after earlier roles covering federal politics and technology, including a stint writing on technology for The Australian Financial Review. His business reporting centres on corporate law, competition and major brands, and on how legal strategy, market power and consumer outcomes are linked. He covers defamation and reputation law, artificial intelligence and pricing, generative AI, media economics, newsprint costs, platforms, misinformation and workplace law. He explains complex systems through specific court cases, regulatory disputes and workplace fights, with close attention to lawyers, regulators, executives and the long timelines of reform and litigation.

Nick Toscano is a business reporter for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, and he stands out for tracking how energy, resources and the clean-energy transition affect company earnings, major projects and household power bills. He covers energy policy and regulation, renewable energy, fossil fuels and export markets, and the economics of batteries, storage and data centres. His reporting uses market forecasts, industry data and government reports to explain shifts in generation, exports and regulation. He has also covered federal politics, workplace relations and the labour movement, and he won national journalism awards for investigative reporting. His past work exposed the underpayment of young retail and fast-food workers through controversial union-brokered wage deals. He reports news and analysis across the energy value chain and appears in audio coverage to explain energy crises and policy responses.

Nina Hendy is a freelance business and finance journalist who puts people at the centre of money and work stories, using individual cases to show how economic shifts and workplace decisions hit everyday lives. She writes regularly for The Age and other major outlets, covering personal finance, cost-of-living pressures, small business and careers. Her beat spans redundancies, renting and housing stress, superannuation, wealth-building and the financial choices facing households and small firms. She reports on the labour market through single-worker case studies, treats housing as a social and intergenerational issue, and explains superannuation and retirement rules in clear, practical terms. Across cross-masthead freelance work, she blends human storytelling with service-style detail so readers can see both the policy context and the real stakes for their budgets, jobs and businesses.

Peter Ker is a resources reporter for The Australian Financial Review who focuses on the mining and energy companies at the centre of economic, political and environmental debate. He covers resource companies, capital, policy and community pressure, with a strong beat on major and mid-tier miners, investors, funding risk, critical minerals, hydrogen, tax changes and Indigenous agreements. His reporting mixes company scoops with clear explanation of complex issues and how they affect share prices, debt, acquisitions and investor sentiment. He also examines procurement, cost pressures, lenders and insurers, and how mining decisions translate into financing outcomes and market reactions. Ker has also reported for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, and his work has been recognised in business journalism awards.

Rebekah Scanlan is a lifestyle and beauty editor whose reporting sits at the intersection of everyday consumer behaviour, cost-of-living pressures and social and cultural trends shaping women’s lives. She is Lifestyle Editor at news.com.au, after around a decade on real-life magazines before moving into digital publishing. Her beat spans audience-led lifestyle and consumer coverage, social media culture and viral stories, beauty, body image and women’s experiences. She writes narrative-driven features built around one person or family, then layers in expert comment, data and wider context. Her work includes cost-of-living stories grounded in vivid real-world examples, coverage of influencer economies and online backlash, and a recurring beauty column, The Beauty Diary. Her stories have appeared globally on sites including the New York Post, Mail Online, The Sun, The Mirror, Yahoo Lifestyle and HuffPost.

Richard Whitten is a senior money editor whose work reads like a how-to manual for buying a home, not a generic market column. He is Senior Money Editor at Finder, specialising in home loans, property prices and everyday personal finance, and has produced hundreds of guides across home loans, credit cards, personal finance and money-saving tips. His core beat is home lending and the path to buying a house, with detailed guides on borrowing power, deposits, lender criteria and settlement, especially for first home buyers. He tracks property prices and monthly market shifts, explaining what changes in values and borrowing capacity mean for buyers and investors. Beyond mortgages he covers credit cards, bank accounts, small business loans and wider money habits, using comparison tables, checklists, surveys and expert commentary to turn complex rules and data into clear, step-by-step advice for consumers.

Samantha Maiden is a political editor whose reporting keeps the hip‑pocket impact of federal politics at the centre of the story. She leads coverage at News.com.au, focusing on how government decisions on tax, housing and budget measures shape people’s money, security and daily life. An experienced press gallery reporter with more than two decades on the federal politics beat and multiple major journalism awards, she connects complex policy settings to real‑world consequences in clear, accessible language. She reports on changes to tax and housing rules, including negative gearing and new homeowner loopholes, and uses interviews, internal briefings, official documents, leaked material and government data to show how decisions are made and who wins or loses. Her work spans exclusives, data‑driven stories and broader analysis of party dynamics, leadership struggles and campaign promises.

Sarah Thompson has co-edited the Australian Financial Review’s Street Talk column since 2009, giving readers a daily, real-time lens on live corporate deals and boardroom manoeuvres in Australia’s capital markets. She specialises in private equity, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets, tracking how private equity funds, investment banks and listed companies negotiate takeovers, carve-outs and capital raisings. Her short, sourced items map out who is pitching, who is buying and how transactions are structured, sequenced and timed, with particular focus on medtech deals, accelerated rights issues and institutional capital flows into private equity. Thompson follows major banks, financial institutions and boards through regulatory scrutiny and governance shifts, links earnings and regulatory outcomes to investor confidence, and has award-recognised investigative reporting on complex corporate narratives across sectors from energy infrastructure to consumer brands.

Shane Wright is a senior economics correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age who stands out for linking headline economic data to its real impact on workers, households and politics. He reports on wages, jobs, housing, tax and demographics, using forecasts, surveys and clear explanations to show where policy is working and where it is failing. His core focus is the labour market, underemployment and real wages, and why people feel squeezed even when spending is strong. He covers inflation, housing values, tax structures and regulatory reform as drivers of inequality, productivity and growth. He brings a long-term lens through demographics, immigration, technology, automation and the future of work. His beat sits at the intersection of economics and politics, and he explains monetary policy, budgets and public sentiment in plain language, including regular broadcast commentary and data-led insights on social media.

Shane Wright is a senior economics correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age whose reporting stands out for clear, data‑driven explanations of complex fiscal and monetary decisions and their political consequences. He focuses on how national economic policy flows through to wages, housing, jobs and everyday living standards, with repeated attention to real wages, inflation and the cost of living. He covers housing and tax policy, including the goods and services tax and broader tax reform, as part of the structure of the economy. His work examines jobs, technology and demographic change, and connects politics, global events and public attitudes to economic outcomes. Across print, broadcast and social platforms, he acts as a go‑to explainer of Reserve Bank decisions, budgets and macroeconomic settings for a general audience.

Shani Jayamanne is a director and investment specialist, wealth at Morningstar Australia whose work stands out for its focus on investor behaviour, costs and structures rather than market noise. She covers long-term wealth building through disciplined investing, with repeated attention to fees, taxes, ownership structures and investor behaviour across ASX-listed shares, ETFs, listed investment companies, managed funds and professionally managed accounts. Her articles, Future Focus series work and Morningstar coverage turn concepts like compounding, saving discipline, realistic return expectations and financial independence into specific strategies, especially for income from ASX dividends. She co-authors Invest Your Way: How to Grow Your Wealth on Your Terms and co-hosts the Investing Compass podcast, and her work on wills, testamentary trusts, SMSFs, tax reform and estate planning shows how structures around portfolios shape real investor outcomes.

Shikhar Gupta is a breaking news journalist at The Business Times who stands out for data-heavy business coverage that links fast corporate moves to macro and geopolitical forces. He focuses on Singapore equities and SGX corporate news, tracking share-price reactions around major deals, IPO performance, listing premiums and over-subscription, and how SGX rules and enforcement shape issuer behaviour. He devotes recurring attention to real estate investment trusts and property-linked markets, tying sector performance to interest rates, yield dynamics and broker research. A distinct strand of his work covers aviation and airlines, including route strategy, partnerships and sustainable aviation fuel initiatives. He also reports on currencies, geopolitics, defence and regional markets, often through concise digital explainers that foreground key numbers, regulatory thresholds and investor implications.

Simon Evans is a senior reporter at The Australian Financial Review whose distinct focus is how structural shifts in business play out from shop floor to boardroom. He covers retail, manufacturing, beverages, mining and mergers and acquisitions, following how changes in consumer behaviour, technology and capital investment reshape companies from book chains and food brands to building products and resources groups. He reports closely on large retailers, food and drink businesses, plant-based meat and brand-driven growth, linking demand, pricing, supply chains and production capacity. His manufacturing and heavy industry coverage tracks strategy, capital expenditure, major projects and plant operations. He also reports on resources and space-related companies, satellite and launch businesses, capital raisings, private equity and contested deals, and adds a political layer by tying workplace-based stories and voting patterns to industrial shifts and jobs.

Sofia Geraghty is a deputy editor at Travel Weekly and one of its most prolific writers, with more than 1,700 articles. She stands out for business-focused travel trade reporting that links policy, ethics and commercial strategy. Her beat covers regulation, governance, accreditation, industry representation, corporate deals, destination campaigns, loyalty, consumer research, and travel safety. She writes for the professional travel industry and has produced news, analysis and partner content. Her recent work has covered agent lobbying, aviation ombudsman rules, accreditation frameworks, cyber attack recovery, mergers, executive moves, child exploitation prevention, traveller sentiment surveys and destination positioning. She often uses exclusive interviews, data and expert commentary. Her reporting treats travel companies, associations and operators as businesses with real costs, risks, strategy and market constraints.

Sophie Vorrath is a clean energy business editor who focuses on how solar, wind and storage projects move from announcement to reality. She is editor of Renew Economy and editor of One Step Off The Grid, and she co-hosts the Solar Insiders podcast. She writes on utility-scale batteries, large wind farms, major solar projects and grid-scale builds, and she tracks who is investing, how systems are built and what they mean for energy users. She also covers rooftop solar, home batteries, retail offers, rebates, policy, markets and corporate clean energy strategy. Her earlier work includes Solar Choice, and she has also written for Crikey, The Driven, Pearls and Irritations and Independent Australia. Her reporting is practical and detailed, with clear focus on project size, technology, ownership, timelines and market impact.

Suki Reid leads with the human side of real estate. She is a lifestyle journalist at Domain and a property and entertainment reporter at Nine. Her beat is prestige property, high-end deals, trophy homes, rentals, and the people, wealth, and status behind them. She covers luxury real estate, record-breaking sales, landlord-tenant tensions, pet rules, rent rises, and how housing shapes lifestyle, aspiration, and social change. She also covers entertainment and lifestyle content, including screen culture and celebrity. Her reporting is plainspoken and audience-facing. She treats property as a story about how people live, not just prices or buildings.

Sumeyya Ilanbey is a Victorian political correspondent for the Australian Financial Review whose work stands out for linking day-to-day state politics to real effects on household budgets, public services and government power. She covers Victorian politics, elections and party dynamics, focusing on the Allan government, Labor, Liberals and emerging parties such as One Nation. Her reporting centres on budgets, cost-of-living pressures, infrastructure, energy policy, public service reform, law-and-order and policing powers, drawing on polling, credit ratings, seat counts and insider sources. She has previously reported for major metropolitan newspapers including The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, with a long-running focus on justice, accountability and how laws and executive powers shape people’s lives. Her stories are tightly focused, source-rich and grounded in specific decisions, powers and dollar figures rather than rhetoric.

Tamika Seeto focuses on how money decisions play out in everyday life, using real stories to show the pressure points in the cost-of-living crunch, small business risks and the changing world of work. She is a journalist at Yahoo Finance Australia covering personal finance, work and careers, after earlier experience writing on banking, budgeting and general insurance. She reports on cost-of-living strain, household finances, tax, consumer protections and small business pressures, unpacking how rising costs, disputes, scams and tax enforcement affect people’s budgets and plans. Her work-and-careers coverage looks at younger generations’ path to wealth, investing habits, job choices and long-term security. Seeto writes in an accessible, reader-focused style that blends case studies, survey data, regulator statistics and expert commentary to make complex financial trends clear and practical.

Tristan Harrison writes detailed ASX share analysis for The Motley Fool Australia, using an accountant’s view of business fundamentals to find value, income and growth ideas for individual investors. He has contributed ASX news and stock analysis articles since 2016 and is one of the masthead’s longest-serving writers. His coverage focuses on listed businesses, especially dividend shares, small caps and growth stocks, with regular attention to valuation, earnings, cash flow, payout ratios and balance-sheet strength. He covers what the company does, how it makes money, and whether the current price and forecast numbers leave room for upside or caution. His work often highlights “great ASX shares,” “rare buying opportunities,” and shares with strong potential. He also writes from a long-term, portfolio-based perspective and discloses his own positions in stocks he covers.