Michelle Grattan
Ms Grattan has had a long and esteemed journalistic career. She studied politics at the University of Melbourne graduating BA (Hons Politics) and was a tutor at Monash University before joining The Age in 1970. She joined The Age bureau in the Canberra Press Gallery in 1971.
During her term as chief political correspondent for The Age from 1976 to 1993, she was awarded the Graham Perkin Award as Australian Journalist of the Year in 1988, for what the judges called 'her tireless, tough and fair' coverage of politics.
She became the first female editor of a metropolitan daily newspaper in Australian history when she was appointed editor of The Canberra Times in 1993, before returning to The Age in 1995 as political editor.
Ms Grattan joined The Australan Financial Review in 1996 as a columnist and senior writer. In 1999 she was appointed chief political correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald. Ms Grattan returned to The Age as political columnist in August 2002, and was appointed political editor and bureau chief in March 2004.
Publications:
Can Ministers cope?, co-author with Patrick Weller (1981)
Reformers, co-author with Margaret Bowman
Managing Government, co-author with Fred Gruen (1993)
Editorial Independence: An Outdated Concept?, monograph (1998)
Reconciliation, editor (2000)
Australian Prime Ministers, editor (2000)
James Carleton
James cut his radio teeth in the bush, working as a journalist and announcer in Muswellbrook and Bateman's Bay.
In 1999, he made it to the big smoke, working as the producer of Tony Delroy's Nightlife on ABC 702. The most demanding episode was 11 September 2001, when as the program was beginning to wind down for the night, New York and Washington were attacked. He kept the coverage going till 5am.
James joined the more genteel environs of Radio National's Lifelong Learning to produce and present From S to M, a 13-part feature series on small business management in Australia. Having grown up working in his own family's small business made the project all the more rewarding.
He also produced Distant Mirrors Dimly Lit, a six-part radio series developed and presented by Australian born classicist Peter Toohey, professor and head of Greek and Roman studies at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Each morning James Carleton joins Radio National Breakfast to bring us the main stories from the day's domestic and international media.
