Katharine Viner to edit US Guardian, Emily Wilson to take reins of Oz operation
Katharine Viner
Katharine Viner editor-in-chief of The Guardian Australia has been promoted to the role of editor-in-chief of the group’s US operation.
Viner is to be replaced by Emily Wilson the network editor of theguardian.com, who has for the last two years has been responsible for overseeing all UK digital content and editing the UK homepage.
The Guardian announced its move into Australia in early 2013 and formally launched its Australian operation in May with a number of big hires including Lenore Taylor, Katharine Murphy and David Marr. The news provider has recently also announced a Melbourne expansion which will see its Australian operation grow to more than 50 staff.
Surprised to see another English editor arriving when what is holding back the Guardian is it’s lack of Australian news.
Still feels too much UK and too little Australia so you have to return to the SMH to get local news.
Anonymous, I’m worried you might not have found the toggle button on the top right which lets you flick between UK/US/AU editions.
Currently 14 of the top 20 are Australian stories. If that’s not enough I’m not sure we can help you…
*Top left. Sorry.
Helen D, even after flicking to the AU edition, the sports page is full of soccer stories. Anonymous is partially right – local coverage is not as good as the Australian media outlets.
The Guardian has become my default news site. I’ve found it good enough for Australian news plus I agree with Helen D that you get the best of UK and US editions as well,. The coverage of the hacking trial has been first rate, and you can’t get that in Australian papers.