{"id":737712,"date":"2026-06-15T08:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737712\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:32:20","slug":"guardian-australia-editor-david-munk-appointed-to-lead-publication-following-lenore-taylors-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737712\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian Australia editor: David Munk appointed to lead publication following Lenore Taylor’s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Updated June 15, 2026 \u2014 6:00pm,first published 5:32pm<\/p>\n

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The Guardian Australia has appointed David Munk as its new editor after Lenore Taylor resigned in February following nearly a decade in the role.<\/p>\n

British-born Munk spent five years as the deputy editor of the Australian edition under Taylor, and has held senior editorial roles with the organisation in the United Kingdom. He was flown in from the UK to act as editor after Taylor\u2019s abrupt departure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid Munk, a long-serving Guardian editor who has served in senior positions here and in the UK, will run its Australian outpost.The Guardian<\/p>\n

Munk, a former deputy foreign editor at the Guardian in the UK and head of world news at the UK Daily and Sunday Telegraph said he was delighted with the appointment, which was made permanent on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom small beginnings, the Guardian is now such an important part of Australian society as well as its fast-changing media landscape,\u201d Munk said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThanks to three brilliant previous editors we have built something special across the land and I will make it my mission to ensure we continue to give our readers, viewers and listeners the courageous, groundbreaking \u2013 and crucially independent \u2013 journalism they have come to expect from our amazing staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guardian News and Media editor-in-chief Katherine Viner said Munk brought \u201cgreat verve, creativity, openness and commitment to his work\u201d.<\/p>\n

Munk\u2019s formal appointment marks the beginning of a new era for the left-wing publication. When Taylor resigned in February, she was the longest-serving editor in the country. But her abrupt departure also followed months of tension<\/a> between Taylor and her most senior colleague in the country, local managing director Rebecca Costello.<\/p>\n

Taylor said that the new appointment left the Guardian in good hands. \u201cHe was a great deputy and I think he\u2019ll be a great editor,\u201d she said on Monday.<\/p>\n

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\"KishorKishor Napier-Raman<\/a> is a senior business writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Previously he worked as a CBD columnist and reporter in the federal parliamentary press gallery.Connect via X<\/a> or email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated June 15, 2026 \u2014 6:00pm,first published 5:32pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-737712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}