Jill Baker (publisher)

Jill Baker is an Australian journalist and current editor of the weekend edition of the Melbourne tabloid the Herald Sun.

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 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

1. "Meet the Walkely Advisory Board". The Walkley Foundation. Archived from the original on 12 March 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
2. Brook, Stephen (24 July 2012). "Jill Baker takes Herald Sun weekend editing role". The Australian. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
3. "Jill Baker's tale of courage wins Walkley Award". Herald Sun. 28 November 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
4. "Powerful tale of cancer survival tops News Awards for journalism". The Australian. 5 November 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2013.

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".