The Guardian’s longest-serving writer, Lorenore Taylor, quits.

Lenore Taylor, the editor of Guardian Australia, announced her resignation after about ten years in the post. She said she was happy with the decision to leave the demanding position and left behind a team of high-calibre possible replacements.

As Katharine Viner, the world Guardian’s head of Sydney, travels into Sydney for the departing editor’s final day in the office on Wednesday, which the publication informed staff of Taylor’s selection via e-mail on Tuesday, sparking an internal and external race for the editorship.

With the departure of Taylor, the Guardian now has hardly any of the original team members who helped launch the left-wing publication in Australia in 2013 as part of a wave of new, online-only free advertising that included regional copies of Vice and BuzzFeed News.

However, The Guardian built a type of free articles with a gentle barrier asking for donations under Taylor, which petered out.

” I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but there’s always been some new issue, history, or reason to postpone,” Taylor said. However, the task is exhausting after ten times. There isn’t much day left to take care of oneself or their loved ones.

” It’s time for me to go the baton, and I have a beautiful, beautiful team, and they have choices for my successor.”

” The choice makes me feel quite at ease,” he said.

When the Guardian first started in Australia in 2013, Taylor was a foundation Guardian employee and the following year received a Walkley Award for democratic reporting. Taylor is the longest-serving director in American media as of 2016. She has edited it since 2016.

Viner, the editor-in-chief of the Guardian, is in Australia and may conduct a selection process to find a substitute for Taylor. David Munk, the Guardian‘s top managing director in London, will work as an acting editor in Australia. He has recently worked in Sydney’s office.

Viner praised Taylor’s career in an email to employees, saying she had” often made the American island a force to reckon with” and that she had done it” through sheer strength of will.”

” Her hard work, dedication, editorial rigour, and political understanding have helped provide news that sets the national plan and won over much respect from our ever-growing audience,” she said.

Lenore has made a significant commitment to Guardian Australia over the past 13 times.

Taylor served as The Sydney Morning Herald‘s general political correspondent for the majority of her job. She is anticipated to leave the Guardian for a number of times.

There has been rumors about her leaving the position for a while, but Taylor had stated to this masthead in 2025 that she was still content in the role and that there was still “more job to do here.”

Given the length of Taylor’s career, some people noted on Tuesday night how quickly Taylor’s withdrawal was expected given the length of her career.

Gabrielle Jackson and Patrick Keneally, the Guardian’s assistant editors in Australia, and Bridie Jabour, the newspaper’s head of multimedia, have both been viewed as potential replacements. Despite the fact that that would mean a profit to a European editor, Mut is also regarded as a possible candidate. Another label staff members are considering is former deputy director Lee Glendinning, who is now head of modern and national news at the ABC.

While Jabour is traveling to London for a two-year deputation, which Guardian staff recently reported to this masthead, could serve as a primer for the best job there, it is not anticipated that Keneally may use.

Taylor had to deal with the negative effects of the paper’s Canberra bureau’s high staff turnover and harassment complaints next time, which led to an HR research.

After that, it took nearly six months for the outlet to appoint past Australian Financial Review journalist Tom McIlroy, who had only joined as its main political correspondent months previously, as its new political editor.

According to The Guardian’s 2025 annual report, the company generated$ 50 million in revenue across Australia and New Zealand over the course of the month, slightly more than the same period last year, thanks to 158, 000 recurring online followers.

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