Maddison Connaughton
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Maddison Connaughton is an Australian journalist and newspaper editor.
Career
Connaughton’s career began in 2016 at Vice, where she served as features editor. She was twice nominated for the Walkley Award for Young Australian of the Year for her reporting on policing, the courts and the Syrian War.[1][2]
In 2018, she travelled to the Lebanon-Syria border, where she interviewed Syrian teenagers who’d fled the war for the documentary Seven Years of Syria.[3]
Also in 2018, Connaughton was appointed editor of The Saturday Paper,[4] becoming one of the youngest people to ever edit an Australian national newspaper. As editor of The Saturday Paper, Connaughton was a judge for the Horne Prize, Australia’s richest prize for longform non-fiction, alongside writers Tara June Winch, Nam Le, Marcia Langton and Anna Krien.[5]
In 2019, she was selected as an inaugural Walkley Foundation Our Watch Fellow.[6]
She was a judge for the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award.[7] From 2022-2023, she was a judge and mentor for the Judith Neilson Institute’s Long Lede prize. The winning stories were published by Penguin Random House in the anthology Stories that Want to Be Told.[8]
As a journalist, Connaughton has contributed to The Guardian,[9] The New York Times,[10] Foreign Policy,[11] and Good Weekend.[12] Since 2023, she has worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a journalist across its investigative programs Four Corners and Background Briefing.[13]
Personal life
She is a first cousin of Canadian Olympic sprinter Jared Connaughton.
References
- ↑ "9NEWS reporter Alexis Daish nominated as Walkley Foundation announces Young Journalist of the Year finalists". www.9news.com.au. 2016-05-26. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ WalkleyMag (2018-05-29). "Finalists announced for 2018 Walkley Mid-Year Awards". The Walkley Foundation. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ Connaughton, Maddison (2018-04-13). "Seven Years of Syria". Vice. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ Samios, Zoe (2018-06-15). "Vice's Maddison Connaughton named new editor of The Saturday Paper". Mumbrella. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/sites/default/files/the_horne_prize_2020_winner_media_release_dr1.pdf
- ↑ WalkleyMag (2018-12-05). "Inaugural Our Watch fellows announced". The Walkley Foundation. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2022". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ "Stories That Want to be Told by Judith Neilson Institute".
- ↑ Connaughton, Maddison (2023-04-15). "Too cramped? Too big? No name: Sydney's newest art gallery weathers critique in its first months". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ Connaughton, Maddison (13 December 2021). "Her Instagram Handle Was 'Metaverse.' Last Month, It Vanished". The New York Times.
- ↑ Connaughton, Maddison (2024-02-06). "AUKUS Gets Awkward Down Under". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ Connaughton, Maddison (2023-09-07). "As volunteers prepare for bushfire season, there's one signal they don't want to hear". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ "Maddison Connaughton - ABC News". www.abc.net.au. 2023-12-08. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
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