Jill Baker (publisher)
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 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]
References
External links
- Reprinted "The big C and me" in Herald Sun, 23 October 2010, "How much could you take - Jill Baker's battle with cancer".
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