Daily Telegraph has a passion for regional news and your stories

As a valued subscriber, you now get full access to all of The Daily Telegraph’s content, enabling you to stay informed about the biggest news happening in New South Wales from the state’s best journalists.

Welcome, again, to your new digital home for local and regional news as part of the wider Daily Telegraph family.

It means your favourite regional news destination is now part of a much wider news platform, and it unlocks even more content as part of your subscription.

We have the same number of local reporters writing the same types of stories that you signed up for.

But as a valued subscriber, you now get full access to all of The Daily Telegraph’s content, enabling you to stay informed about the biggest news happening in New South Wales from more of the state’s best journalists.

As well as all the reporters who hold regional news in a special place in their heart, your expanded subscription also gets you access to some of the state‘s best journalists, including award-winning crime editor Mark Morri, expert political coverage from State political editor Anna Caldwell, the inside celeb gossip from Jonathon “JMo” Moran and exclusive NRL coverage by Phil “Buzz” Rothfield.

You‘ll also have access to our best columnists including Tim Blair, Miranda Devine, Louise Roberts and Alan Jones.

The Daily Telegraph’s editor Ben English is no stranger to regional news. He spent some time as editor of the Townsville Bulletin and the Gold Coast Bulletin.

The Daily Telegraph‘s urban affairs reporter, Lachlan Leeming, started his career as a cadet journalist in Taree, before moving on to Kempsey and Maitland and is passionate about rural and regional issues.

“With so many of our readers based in the regions, it‘s great to have that rural connection, as well as that understanding about the issues that matter to them,” he said.

The Daily Telegraph Bush Summit. The Hon. Gladys Berejiklian, MP. Moderated by Anna Caldwell, State Political Editor, The Daily Telegraph. Picture Rohan Kelly

Clare Armstrong is the National Political Reporter at The Daily Telegraph and is based in the Canberra press gallery. Passionate about issues impacting regional Australia, she was previously political reporter at The Townsville Bulletin and a breaking news reporter at The Courier-Mail in Brisbane.

John Rolfe is a senior reporter at The Daily Telegraph. His previous roles include National Political Editor and Chief of Staff. John was born and bred in central western NSW and his first job in journalism was for his local paper, the Forbes Advocate.

The Daily Telegraph Bush Summit in Cooma. The Hon. Anthony Albanese, MP interviewed by Anna Caldwell.

Perry Duffin is the senior court reporter for The Daily Telegraph based in Sydney. He was previously covered crime at Australian Associated Press newswire and, before that, was a reporter for the Maitland Mercury in the NSW Hunter Valley.

Carla Hildebrandt is another member of the Telegraph court reporting team and she hails from Mandurah on the southwest coast of Western Australia. She was a mid-year Walkey Award finalist in 2019 for her reporting on domestic violence in WA‘s Peel region and a Kennedy Award finalist in 2018.

And Daily Telegraph website editor Wendy Fitzgibbon, a proud country girl hailing from Tamworth in northern NSW, began her career as a cadet journalist in nearby Armidale and spent 10 years working on suburban and regional papers and websites in Sydney and NSW in her roles as a reporter, editor and digital editor for NewsLocal before joining The Daily Telegraph.

Ben English, Editor of The Daily Telegraph. Picture. Phil Hillyard

“After growing up in Tamworth and starting my career as a cadet in country NSW and then spending a decade of my career at local papers and websites at NewsLocal, I know better than anyone the value and benefit grassroots journalism can deliver to local communities,” she said.