Walkley Award-winning Editor of The Guardian Australia, Lenore Taylor with Berry Conversations’ President Mary Cunnane
One of Australia’s most outstanding journalists, Lenore Taylor, will appear with former publisher and literary agent, Mary Cunnane on Saturday April 6th.
Taylor began working as a journalist in 1987 at The Canberra Times and was later national affairs correspondent and then chief political correspondent at The Sydney Morning Herald before becoming The Guardian’s first political editor in 2013 and its editor in 2016.
She has won the ‘Scoop of the Year’ Walkley Award twice:
- 2010, for her reporting on the Ruddgovernment’s shelving of an emissions trading scheme
- 2014, for a joint report on Australian spying on the Indonesian government.
Other awards include:
- the 2014 Paul Lyneham Award for excellence in journalism
- the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery Journalist of the Year in 2007 and 2014.
Taylor, who is a frequent panelist on ABC TV’s Insiders, published her first book, Shitstorm: Inside Labor’s Darkest Days, about Kevin Rudd‘s first term as Prime Minister, in 2010.
Mary Cunnane is a former Vice-President and Senior Editor at W.W. Norton & Company in New York and founded The Mary Cunnane Agency in Australia in 1999. She has also been Vice-President of the Sydney PEN Centre and the Australian Literary Agents Association, and was the recipient of a NSW Premier’s Literary Award in 2010. Mary has also served as the Advisory Publishing Editor for the Macquarie Pen Anthology Australian Literature Project.
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW
Date: Saturday April 6
Time: 3-5 pm
Enquiries: berryconversations@gmail.com or 0409 468 480
Place: Berry Public School Hall, Clarence Street
Tickets: $30, refreshments included. Purchase at the Berry Music Centre, Queen Street or at www.trybooking.com.au
April Berry Conversation Update
The April 7th Berry Conversation featuring Bruce Pascoe and Marie Munkara has been postponed until next year, with the date to be confirmed and announced in due course.
However, we are delighted to announce that Lenore Taylor, the Walkley Award-winning Editor of The Guardian Australia and regular panelist on ABC TV’s The Insiders, will appear in a Berry Conversation on April 6th. Please note, this is a Saturday and thus a departure from our regular Sunday schedule.
Time: 3-5pm
Place: Berry Public School Hall
Cost: $30, includes refreshments
Tickets: available at the Berry Music Centre and on line at www.trybooking.com from Monday, February 18th
Enquiries: berryconversations@gmail.com
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Berry Conversation in April
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Bruce Pascoe is now not able to appear on April 7th in conversation with Marie Munkara. We are hopeful of finding an alternative date, which we will announce once new arrangements have been made.
With apologies and best wishes
The Berry Conversations Committee