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Maddison Connaughton

Maddison Connaughton is a journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, the ABC, The Sydney Morning Herald, and more.

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Maddison Connaughton

Maddison Connaughton is a journalist, currently based in Sydney, who has reported from the United States, the Middle East, the Pacific and Australia. Her reporting focuses on how global issues affect people on a human scale. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, the ABC, The Sydney Morning Herald and more. She was previously the editor of The Saturday Paper, where was also a member of The Monthly’s editorial board and an inaugural Walkley Our Watch Fellow. Maddison started her career at Vice where she was features editor and was twice a finalist for the Walkley Award for Young Australian Journalist of the Year for her reporting on teenage refugees of the Syrian War, millennial foreign fighters and criminal justice reform.

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