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| Born | (1944-06-30)30 June 1944 (age 81) Kew, Victoria, Australia |
| Education | Ruyton Girls' School |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
| Occupations | Journalist, author, newspaper editor |
| Years active | 1970—present |
Michelle Grattan (born 30 June 1944) is an Australian journalist who was the first woman to become editor of an Australian metropolitan daily newspaper.[1] Specialising inpolitical journalism, she has written for and edited many significantAustralian newspapers. She is currently the chief political correspondent withThe Conversation, Australia's largest independent news website.
Grattan was educated inKew, Victoria atRuyton Girls' School.[citation needed] She completed aBachelor of Arts at theUniversity of Melbourne, majoring in politics, and then worked as a tutor atMonash University for a period before deciding to pursue journalism as a career.[citation needed] Grattan was recruited byThe Age newspaper in 1970, and joined theCanberra Press Gallery in 1971.[citation needed] In 1976, she was appointed the Chief Political Correspondent forThe Age, a position she held until 1993.[citation needed] After leavingThe Age in 1993, Grattan was appointed the editor ofThe Canberra Times, becoming the first female editor of a metropolitan daily newspaper in Australia.[citation needed] After two years in this position she was sacked and returned toThe Age, where she became the political editor.[citation needed]
In 1996, Grattan joinedThe Australian Financial Review as a senior writer, and three years later, was appointed Chief Political Correspondent atThe Sydney Morning Herald.[citation needed] She returned toThe Age in 2002 as a columnist, and was made Political Editor and Bureau Chief in 2004.[citation needed]
On 4 February 2013 she announced her resignation fromThe Age to take up a position as professorial fellow at theUniversity of Canberra,[1] and to become the Chief Political Correspondent ofThe Conversation.[2]
Grattan has co-authored several books, includingCan Ministers Cope?,[2]Back on the Wool Track andReformers,[3] and has edited collections such asAustralian Prime Ministers[4] andReconciliation.[5]
In 1988, Grattan was awarded theGraham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award. She was inducted onto theVictorian Honour Roll of Women in 2001.[3] The following year she was elected a Fellow of theAcademy of the Social Sciences in Australia.[4] In theAustralia Day Honours in 2004, Grattan was made anOfficer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her long and distinguished service to Australian journalism.[5] She won aWalkley Award for Journalism Leadership in 2006. She is an adjunct professor at theUniversity of Queensland's School of Journalism and Communication. Grattan was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by theUniversity of Sydney in 2017.[6]
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