Lenore Taylor has been the editor of Guardian Australia since 2016. Before taking over the editorship, she spent twenty eight years in the federal parliamentary press gallery as a reporter and political commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, The Australian and The Canberra Times. She spent three years in London as the Australian Financial Review’s European correspondent. She has won two Walkley Awards and twice won the Paul Lyneham Award for excellence in press gallery journalism. She co-authored, with David Uren, the book Shitstorm, about the Rudd Government’s response to the global economic crisis.