Crikey Team

Sophie Black is Crikey’s editor-in-chief. She has worked in senior management across cultural and media organisations, and has written for outlets such as The Guardian and The Monthly. As the Wheeler Centre’s head of publishing she oversaw projects such as the Walkley award-winning The Messenger podcast. She sits on the board of Melbourne University’s Centre for Advancing Journalism, and is co-chair of human rights media outlet Right Now.

Gina Rushton is editor of Crikey. She has worked as an editor at Nine and reporter at Australian Associated Press, AAP FactCheck, The Australian and BuzzFeed News. She has written for The Guardian, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The Monthly, The West Australian, Business Insider Australia and The Saturday Paper. She is also the author of The Most Important Job in the World.

Jack Callil is deputy editor of Crikey. He is also copyeditor of Meanjin, and was previously digital editor of Australian Book Review. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, and VICE, among others. He was a finalist for the 2020 Walkley–Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, and was an emerging culture critic for The Age/Sydney Morning Herald.

Emma Elsworthy is Climate Editor at Crikey, SmartCompany, and The Mandarin, and writes daily morning newsletter the Worm. Before joining Crikey in 2021, Emma was a breaking news reporter in ABC’s Sydney newsroom, a journalist at BBC Australia, and a journalist in Fairfax Media’s regional network. She was part of a team awarded a Walkley for coverage of the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfire crisis, and won the Australian Press Council prize in 2013.

Bernard Keane is Crikey’s political editor. Before that he was Crikey’s Canberra press gallery correspondent, covering politics, national security and economics.

Charlie Lewis pens Crikey’s Tips and Murmurs column and also writes on industrial relations, politics and culture. He previously worked across government and unions and was a researcher on RN’s Daily Planet. He currently co-hosts Spin Cycle on Triple R radio.

Anton Nilsson is Crikey’s federal political reporter. He previously covered NSW Parliament for NCA NewsWire, and before that, worked for Sweden’s Expressen newspaper as well as other publications in Sweden, Australia and the United States.

Guy Rundle is correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He is also an associate editor at Arena Quarterly and contributes to a variety of publications in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Daanyal Saeed is Crikey’s media reporter. He was previously a sports reporter at news.com.au and for the Grafton Daily Examiner.

Cam Wilson is Crikey’s associate editor. He previously worked as a reporter at the ABC, BuzzFeed, Business Insider and Gizmodo. He primarily covers internet culture and tech in Australia.

Tom is Crikey’s production editor. He was previously after-hours editor at Junkee and weekend editor at Concrete Playground.

Zennie McLoughin is Crikey’s design manager. She has 17 years of experience working in-house and freelance for a range of organisations, studios and clients. She has a master’s of design and a graduate diploma of graphic design from RMIT University.