Nevena, Macca and Misha talk to Lenore Taylor about World Press Freedom Day.

Raised in Brisbane, Taylor attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School and studied journalism and politics at the University of Queensland, where she was co-editor of the student newspaper Semper Floreat. She began working as a journalist in 1987 at The Canberra Times. She was later national affairs correspondent and then chief political correspondent at The Sydney Morning Herald, before becoming Guardian Australia‘s first political editor from 2013 to 2016.

She has won the “Scoop of the Year” Walkley Award twice: in 2010, for her reporting on the Rudd government‘s shelving of an emissions trading scheme, 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 Kevin Rudd‘s first term as Prime Minister) in 2010.

In February 2026, Lenore resigned as Editor of The Guardian after more than a decade in the role.

Macca, Nevena and Misha talk to Lenore about World Press Freedom Day, is now more important than ever? – attacks on journalism by Trump – does this send a signal to other world leaders that this is acceptable?

– What is the FOI situation like in Australia – should we be concerned?

They also look at the fracturing of news sources and the rise of podcasters. Does it erode the public’s confidence in journalism? Where will the Lenore Taylors and Cameron Stewarts of the future learn their trade?

– is there a shadow side of press freedom?. In a democracy like ours, where should we draw the line on Freedom of the press?

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