Jill Baker is an Australian journalist and current editor of the weekend edition of the

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tabloid the '' Herald Sun''.

Career

Baker has worked as a journalist at ''

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'', Melbourne daily ''

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'', 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. She is currently editor of the weekend edition of the '' Herald Sun''.

Awards

Baker won a 2011

Walkley Award The annual Walkley Awards are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. They cover all media including print, television, documentary, radio, photographic and online media. The Gold Walkley is the highest prize and ...

in the Newspaper Feature Writing category for her article ''The Big C and Me''. 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 The Quill Award was an American literary award that ran for three years in 2005-2007. It was a "consumer-driven award created to inspire reading while promoting literacy." The Quills Foundation, the organization behind the Quill Award, was suppor ...

Gold Quill and a Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Excellence in Journalism.

References

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"
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