Lenore Taylor is an Australian journalist. She has been the editor of ''

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'' since May 2016. Raised in

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, Taylor attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School and studied journalism and politics at the

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, where she was co-editor of the student newspaper Semper Floreat. She began working as a journalist in 1987 at ''

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''. She was later national affairs correspondent and then chief political correspondent at the ''

Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in ...

'', before becoming The Guardian Australia's first political editor from 2013 to 2016. She has won the "Scoop of the Year"

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twice: in 2010, for her reporting on the

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government's shelving of an

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, and in 2014, for a joint report on Australian spying on the Indonesian government. She also won the 2014 Paul Lyneham Award for excellence in journalism and the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery Journalist of the Year in 2007 and 2014. Taylor published her first book, ''Shitstorm: Inside Labor's Darkest Days'' (about

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's first term as Prime Minister) in 2010. She is married to author and journalist Paul Daley.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Lenore Living people Australian newspaper editors Australian newspaper journalists Australian women newspaper editors Australian political journalists Australian women journalists Walkley Award winners Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) The Sydney Morning Herald people People educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar School