Award-winning journalist Tom Minear has been appointed state topic editor for The Age, to help guide its coverage of Melbourne’s most important stories.
Throughout his career, Minear has won Walkley and Quill awards for his reporting on political wrongdoing, health, crime and transport and has covered some of the biggest stories in Victoria and around the globe.
He recently returned to Australia following a posting as US correspondent for News Corp, a role in which he spearheaded the company’s coverage of the 2024 presidential elections and the early days of Donald Trump’s second term.
Currently a chief of staff at the Herald Sun, he previously led that newspaper’s Canberra bureau through the COVID-19 pandemic as national political editor, covering three federal budgets and the 2022 election.
Minear also displayed his talents as a newsbreaker while working on Spring Street as a state political reporter during Daniel Andrews’ premiership. During this time he and the Herald Sun’s James Campbell were awarded the news report in writing Quill for exposing former Victorian Labor minister Steve Herbert for using his ministerial car to chauffeur his two pet dogs in 2016.
Tom Minear, a former foreign correspondent and political editor for NewsCorp, joins The Age as state topic editor. Credit: Elsa Campbell
This report also netted him a Walkley Award for young journalist of the year in the shortform journalism category.
In 2015, Minear won the young journalist of the year Quill for a portfolio that included an investigation into a Melbourne jihadi cell and revealing footage of then-Labor leader Bill Shorten texting while driving. In 2020 he was part of a team that won the transport Quill for an investigation that exposed the presence of toxic soil at West Gate Tunnel construction sites.
As a correspondent, Minear has reported from the US, Hong Kong and Glasgow.
He will join The Age later this year, when as state topic editor he will work with reporters across the newsroom, focusing on politics, the city, health, science, regional and social affairs.
