Benedict is an award-winning journalist and news.com.au’s US Correspondent, based in New York. He moved to Australia in 2006 and worked in corporate communications and journalism, becoming assistant editor of LGBTI publication the Star Observer before joining news.com.au in 2015. He writes on a range of topics from weather to retail and infrastructure. Benedict has won a Kennedy Award for environmental reporting and was nominated for another, for breaking news, in 2020. He has been nominated twice for an ACON Honour Award for his writing on the LGBTI community.