Media reporter Sophie Elsworth is leaving The Australian

The Australian’s media reporter, Sophie Elsworth, is on the transfer.

Elsworth, who has reported on the beat for The Australian’s enterprise community for the previous three and a half years, has picked up the position of Information Corp’s London correspondent, reporting for the entire organisation’s titles, together with the assorted capital city-based mastheads. 

An inside e mail to workers on Tuesday saying the transfer, penned by The Day by day Telegraph editor Ben English, mentioned Elsworth would report back to Information Corp’s nationwide editor of community information, Sarah Blake, and described Elsworth as a “tenacious information hound”. 

Elsworth has been at Information Corp for her whole profession, spanning greater than 20 years throughout a number of mastheads. She started as an editorial assistant at The Herald and Weekly Occasions in Melbourne in 2001 (now the Herald Solar), earlier than securing a cadetship at The Advertiser in Adelaide in 2005, the place she then labored as a journalist. She frolicked at Brisbane’s Courier-Mail earlier than shifting into the private finance beat throughout Information Corp mastheads, and took up the media put up with The Australian in March 2021. 

Elsworth shares the media beat at The Australian with media editor James Madden (with whom she presently shares a Sunday column titled Media Diary). It has beforehand been lined by the likes of Sky Information Australia’s Sharri Markson, in addition to The Australian’s managing director Darren Davidson and the ABC’s communications lead Nick Leys.

Elsworth was contacted for remark by Crikey on the Friday previous to Tuesday’s announcement however didn’t reply for remark. 

She’s going to start her new position in November. 

Correction: An earlier model of this piece incorrectly said that The Australian’s present political editor Simon Benson had beforehand lined the media beat. It has been amended to replicate the truth that he has not.