As a social media content producer for news.com.au, Nazeem makes sure that you’re kept up to date with the latest viral moments caught on video from around the world. Armed with a camera and an unbeatable sense of creativity, he transforms everyday moments into captivating visual spectacles to keep you hitting replay.

Jessica is a content writer who loves to guide Australians in their purchasing of products that make it easier to live well. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Media and previously spent two years as a content creator in news.com.au, covering everything from health insurance to Byron Bay camping hacks, prior to stepping into the health and wellness space where her passions truly lie. Jessica has bylines across news.com.au, checkout, Escape and Body+Soul, and now occupies Body+Soul Shop, testing out and researching all things skincare, activewear and more. She is a pilates fanatic, a keen traveller, and an open book ready to share anything and everything about her best recommendations, because there’s no gatekeeping here.

A news, beauty and lifestyle journalist, Edwina is the senior manager of ecommerce content & strategy at News Corp, where she’s passionate about everything to do with adding to cart. She finds nothing more satisfying than discovering and sharing dazzling new products, gift ideas, deals and more with readers. With over a decade of experience in the Australian media industry, Edwina’s words, product reviews and opinion pieces have appeared in print and digital publications like The Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue.com.au, body+soul, The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun, Courier Mail, Mamamia and more.

An experienced news and lifestyle journalist, for the past 10 years Hannah has written for some of Australia’s most popular titles including the The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail Australia and The Sydney Morning Herald. She joined news.com.au in 2018 and has covered everything from beauty and fashion to health and homewares – you name it, she’s written it. She is obsessive about testing new products and sharing her first-hand experiences with Australian shoppers and believes good skincare and clothes shouldn’t cost the earth.

Melody has more than a decade’s experience in lifestyle media, previously holding senior editorial roles at Mamamia. She loves nothing more than trialling and reviewing the latest fashion, beauty, health and home products to help you decide if it’s worth spending your hard-earned money. When she’s not searching for the best bargains at work, she’s either on TikTok and Instagram getting easily influenced to buy the latest viral product or whiling away the hours online shopping from the comfort of her couch.

Tahnee-Jae has years of reviewing experience, specialising in all the appliances and products that can help improve your home and life. From finding the best budget sheets to the mattresses that can help you get a better night’s sleep, she does all of the research to save you time and money.She previously worked as a content producer for one of Australia’s top comparison sites Canstar Blue, where she spent her days learning what Australian shoppers really think by translating detailed national survey data into hundreds of highly respected consumer ratings – helping shed light on how well brands offer value for money and more.Armed with a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the Queensland University of Technology, she knows that detail matters and is dedicated to creating in-depth shopping guides to help you find the right product.

Harriet knows a lot about helping Australian shoppers find the exact product they’re looking for. She started her career at popular fashion website Showpo where she analysed thousands of fashion pieces (how stretchy is that dress?, are those linen pants see-through?) to create the detailed product descriptions online shoppers rely on. She joined the news.com.au checkout team in 2022 and spends every day scouring the web for deals to share and new products to test and review. She’s always on the lookout for new trends and the dupes that are just as good as the expensive version. When she isn’t working, she’s most likely being influenced into buying trending TikTok products or gushing over her dogs.

Susannah loves nothing more than finding great deals to help make life easier for parents. She has written extensively on all things parenting for publications such as Practical Parenting, Babyology and Tell Me Baby and has worked for Finder, reporting on best buys for families. Susannah is a busy mum of two fast-growing girls, and uses her work finding the best products at the right price in her daily life.

Marina has been helping Australian shoppers find products that are actually worth buying for more than five years. Since joining news.com.au’s shopping team in 2021, she has become an expert in sales and deals and curates news.com.au checkout’s must-read weekly shopping and deals article. For the past five years, she has covered mega sale events like Black Friday and Boxing Day, sifting through hundreds of deals to find the biggest discounts on the products worth adding to cart. She is also passionate about all things beauty having tested hundreds of serums, eye creams and moisturisers to provide first-hand reviews. She has previously worked at comparison site Finder as a Shopping Writer and has written for popular titles including Marie Claire, Women’s Health and The Carousel.

Richard has been a journalist for more than 25 years. He started his career with News Corp in the 80s, where he worked on all its titles before settling with The Australian, where he was appointed aviation editor. He left News to join Qantas’s PR team, before moving on to similar roles with Ford and Toyota. He eventually returned to journalism after 12 years. He rejoined News – fatter, balder and hopefully wiser – in 2014 as national motoring editor.

Forging a career for herself as Australia’s first female technology reviewer on YouTube, Elly has spent the past decade working with multinational tech companies, reviewing their products and representing them at global events. Along with her passions for tech, YouTube and social media, Elly is also a writer, MC, and national television presenter. She’s been known to host large-scale events but these days she’s a little more subdued writing technology articles, geeking out and tweeting about popular culture from her lounge room.

Dom started his journalism career 10 years ago at The Sydney Morning Herald working for the Drive section before moving to News Corp two years ago to cover motoring related stories across all its sites, including news.com.au. Dom has an interest in quirky car stories and electric cars. So if you see a wrecked supercar or an outrageous Elon Musk tweet let him know.

Dr Zac Turner is a medical practitioner specialising in preventative health and wellness. With four health/medical degrees under his belt (Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Sydney, Bachelor of Nursing at Central Queensland University, and Bachelor of Biomedical Science at the University of the Sunshine Coast) and an ongoing PHD Doctorate at UNSW in Biomedical Engineering, his passion for health is unmatched and also led him to start Concierge Doctors, a telehealth service for preventative health and body optimisation.

Isiah McKimmie is one of the most qualified and sought-after relationship and intimacy experts in Australia – she’s also the brains behind news.com.au’s Relationship Rehab column. She holds a master’s degree in relational psychotherapy, a master’s degree in science in medicine (sexual counselling / psychosexual therapy), a post-graduate diploma of sexology and a certificate from the prestigious Institute for the Advanced Studies of Human Sexuality. Compassionate, understanding and non-judgemental, she’s built her reputation on getting results.

Jana is a collector of kinda/sorta boyfriends and dating stories. She has worked in both TV and Radio for the last 12 years, including a stint as a dating producer for The Bachelor. As the dating columnist for news.com.au she can often be spotted in a dark wine bar with a potential suitor. She hosts the dating podcast Jana with a J and is also a regular commentator on Studio 10 and Triple M’s late night show Danny Lakey Live.

After evolving a digital heart (not the pacemaker kind) out of inky veins, Jamie just wants an excuse to learn something new. But he’s fully aware his 32 years’ experience in the news industry has given him just enough knowledge to be dangerous. International affairs. History. Defence. Science. Space. Technology. He has a fascination for them all – particularly when it comes to social fallout. Translating tough concepts into common terms is his craft. His passion is to explore the big picture encompassing world events.

Alison and Jillian Barrett are principals at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers and real-life sisters. Hailing from Queensland, they are highly experienced lawyers and passionate social justice campaigners. Older sister Alison is a mother, while also heading up a major legal practice, while younger sister Jillian also leads a team of lawyers.

Daniela Elser is an experienced journalist and editor who has worked in TV, magazines and digital during her 15 year career. After starting her career photocopying in the ABC newsroom, she later spent a lengthy stint as the Marie Claire features director before helping launch whimn.com.au. A lifelong fascination with the royal family can be blamed on a steady childhood diet of Tatler and Hello magazines. She was the only nine-year-old in her class who used to spend her recess reading books about Princess Margaret. Nothing has changed since then.

Holding a lifelong fascination with politics, global affairs and economics, Tarric got his start in journalism covering US politics for the American press. Since then his work has been published on four different continents and been featured in media outlets across the English speaking world. At news.com.au, Tarric provides readers with an insight into all manner of subjects, from the geopolitical realities of a rising China to the driving forces behind house prices.

Economist and journalist Jason Murphy is one of Australia’s most popular writers on the topics of business and the economy. His career began in the federal Department of Treasury but he soon found another use for his economics training and his love of graphs. He is a writer who takes complex topics and makes them understandable. Murphy has worked for the Australian Financial Review and been published all over the internet, covering topics that matter to Australians, like employment, interest rates and the cost of living.

Ben Nash is a financial adviser and founder of Pivot Wealth, a money management company that helps people invest smarter. Ben is an author, podcaster, and adviser since 2011, and has been listed in the top 50 most influential financial advisers in Australia since 2017, recognised as the Best Client Servicing Adviser in Australia and for Excellence in Education. Ben’s content draws on practical experience to deliver simple, tried and tested strategies in an easy-to-understand way.

Joe Hildebrand is a columnist for news.com.au and The Daily Telegraph and the host of Summer Afternoons on Radio 2GB. He is also a commentator on the Seven Network, Sky News, 2GB, 3AW and 2CC Canberra.Prior to this, he was co-host of the Channel Ten morning show Studio 10, co-host of the Triple M drive show The One Percenters, and the presenter of two ABC documentary series: Dumb, Drunk & Racist and Sh*tsville Express.He is also the author of the memoir An Average Joe: My Horribly Abnormal Life.

Natasha’s down-to-earth cosmic guidance landed her the position of resident astrologer for news.com.au. She has guest featured on radio and podcasts, as well as TV shows, Today Extra and Sunrise Morning Show. In 2020, Natasha received the prestigious AAAC award for her contribution to astrological research. Her work has appeared in Body+Soul, ELLE magazine and Thought Catalog. And her hot astro tip is to read your horoscope for your Sun and Ascendant signs to get the most accurate prediction.

Nadia Bokody is a queer sex-positive journalist and media commentator with a passion for destroying the shame around taboo topics like sexuality and mental health. Her candid, comedic editorial style has seen her work published in The Washington Post, HuffPost and Thought Catalog. She’s also a regular on Australian radio and runs a popular sex education channel on YouTube where she playfully refers to herself as “the Internet’s queen of TMI”, because as far as Nadia’s concerned, no topic is off-limits.

Nina Funnell is a Walkley award winning journalist, sexual assault survivor advocate and founder of the #LetUsSpeak movement, who has created the Justice Shouldn’t Hurt Campaign in exclusive partnership with news.com.au.

Juna Xu is a Sydney-based journalist and news.com.au checkout contributor with over nine years of experience working across the Australian media landscape. She currently manages her own e-commerce business and writes lifestyle and shopping content for leading publications including news.com.au, Women’s Health, Mamamia, Lifehacker, Kidspot, Elle and Better Homes & Garden. Juna particularly loves writing about beauty, health, lifestyle, food, fashion, interiors and travel. When she’s not deep in words, you’ll either find her at the latest restaurant, on a long run around Sydney or at home planning her next overseas trip.

James joined news.com.au in 2014. As well as building a loyal readership through his reality TV recaps and popular Sunday newspaper column, he has turned his satirical eye to major news events – hitting the road to report on everything from federal elections to Harry and Meghan’s final royal tour.

Stephanie loves to stretch her dollars on everything travel – from hotels to suitcases – and is always excited to share her knowledge of hacks and bargains so others can get more bang for their holiday buck. She was previously the Travel and Shopping Editor at Finder and has been featured in Travel Weekly, KarryOn and The Guardian. Stephanie can’t resist a good flight sale, is a stickler for travelling as light as possible (sorry books, hello Kindle) and is currently navigating how to travel with a toddler.

Troy has worked widely in editorial and commercial roles across digital, social, radio, and TV, both in the UK and Australian newsrooms, including The Sunday Project, The Morning Show, Studio 10, ITV’s Good Morning Britain, OK! Online and Metro.co.uk. He also brings more than a decade of retail experience to News.com.au’s checkout team, including stints at Bunnings, Jeans West, Big W and Masters Home Improvement.

David McCowen is a journalist with more than a decade of experience covering the automotive industry. A passionate car enthusiast, you can spot him behind the wheel of the latest models.

Sam covers politics, with the occasional foray into entertainment news. He previously worked in the Canberra press gallery and as news.com.au’s US correspondent. Sam led our coverage of the 2016 and 2020 US elections and hit the campaign trail for the Australian federal elections in 2019 and 2022 – but you’re probably more likely to recognize him as our resident Game of Thrones nerd.

Eleanor Katelaris is a lifestyle reporter at news.com.au. She began her career at Mamamia, wearing many hats across social, video and editorial and then dove into writing full-time at Kidspot as a parenting and lifestyle writer. Eleanor enjoys writing about (and trying out) the latest wellness or fitness trends, investigating the newest food hack on TikTok and unpacking beauty and skincare crazes. When she’s not writing articles while walking on her standing desk treadmill, she’s leading her hiking club on trails, hosting Sydney’s first-ever ‘reading party’ or binge-watching Made in Chelsea.

Rosalyn has been working as a shopping writer and producer since 2022, joining the news.com.au checkout team in November 2024. Rosalyn in an expert in helping buyers can get the best bang for their buck and make quality investments. She covers a wide range of areas, from appliances and tech to toys and pet products. Her previous media experience includes over three years working for 9 Product Reviews and across 2BG, Seven Network and Nine Entertainment. In her downtime, Rosalyn plays The Sims, watches netball and spends time with her nephews, niece and cats.

James is a Digital Content Creator at news.com.au and is part of the News Corp Australia’s digital real estate team. His previous experience includes working for Sky News Australia.

Dane is a seasoned video producer at News.com.au, bringing a wealth of expertise in crafting compelling visual narratives. With a keen eye for storytelling, he combines technical proficiency with creative flair to produce engaging content that resonates with diverse audiences. Dane’s commitment to journalistic integrity and innovation is evident in his work, contributing to News.com.au’s reputation as a leading source for dynamic and impactful video journalism.

Claudia began her media career in radio, contributing to some of the most acclaimed programs at Nova Entertainment, including Fitzy & Wippa, Smallzy’s Surgery and Ash, Luttsy & Susie O’Neill. Having found herself glued to digital news, the jump over to news.com.au was an easy choice. Driven by a love for storytelling, video production and shopping, Claudia now produces the social media content for news.com.au’s checkout.

Michelle Bowes has been writing about business and finance for more years than she cares to remember, after starting out as a cadet at BRW at the turn of the century. She graduated with honours from the prestigious journalism degree at RMIT University and has worked as a reporter in both Australia and the UK. Michelle is passionate about improving financial literacy in the community and is the author of Money Queens: the teen girl’s guide to money. In her spare time, she gives money talks at schools.

Mitch has emerged as one of the leading racing analysts in Australia. He serves up expert tips and features on SEN radio.

Philippa started her career at Vogue Australia before joining the news.com.au checkout team in 2022. She is passionate about finding and recommending fashion items that are great quality and value, ensuring you can wear them for years and save money in the long run. Her interest in skincare came from first-hand experience of searching for the best products for acne-prone skin and trying a long list of products in the process. Since joining the team she has tested everything from hair tools to jeans (spoiler alert: she loved them both). She is always on the lookout for the next viral TikTok trend to put to the test.

Matthew joined news.com.au in 2021 as a sports reporter after completing a Journalism and International Studies degree at UTS. He is a self-professed sports nerd and has a particular interest in Formula One, AFL, NBA, tennis and swimming. When he’s not watching sport, you’ll find Matthew shanking balls on the golf course and spending too much time tinkering with his AFL Fantasy team.

Carla Mascarenhas is a news reporter with news.com.au. She began her career on the NSW Mid North Coast as a radio producer and later worked as a presenter. She worked as a reporter for the Port Macquarie News in 2019 before moving to News Corp in 2020 as a reporter with News Local and then across to The Australian as a digital producer and reporter. She holds a Master of Strategic Studies from ANU.

Mary began her career working for ex-Vogue editor and chief Kirstie Clements and has since done everything from PR to tutoring at The University Of Notre Dame. She even had a brief stint as the world’s worst personal assistant. Mary’s most passionate about pop-culture, fashion and whatever is making women mad.

Lauren is a consumer tech expert with five years’ experience in reviewing and writing about laptops, mobile phones, headphones, televisions and all the gadgets that make our lives easier. A former finalist in the Australian IT Journalism Awards, she previously worked at comparison site Finder as the Senior Shopping Writer where she reported on everything from tech gadgets to the latest home products. When she’s not busy testing new tech products, you’ll find her road testing the latest game releases. Prior to starting her career in journalism, she completed a Bachelor of journalism at the University of South Australia and worked as a media advisor for JB Hi-Fi where she sold the very products she now writes about.

Steve Zemek began his career in his native Queensland before moving to Sydney with Australian Associated Press in 2014. He worked as an NRL journalist for five seasons, covering the game all over Australia and in New Zealand before making a career pivot towards court reporting in 2019. He joined NCA NewsWire in mid 2020 as a Sydney-based court reporter where he has covered some of the state’s biggest cases.

Blake Antrobus covers Queensland courts and crime for NCA NewsWire. He began his career in journalism in 2015, migrating from Sydney’s northern beaches to southwest Queensland. He has covered politics, crime, education and general news for newspapers across the state.

Rebecca Le May has been a journalist for more than 20 years, including 13 years as a reporter and bureau chief for AAP in Perth. She started out her career as a finance reporter, then moved into general news, covering politics and courts. Rebecca now has a hybrid role with NCA NewsWire, covering both finance and general, and contributing to sub-editing. Fun fact: She is a keen photographer and her favourite subject is her cat. She can also recite The Young Ones word for word.