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newmatilda.com Staff

Marni Cordell, Editor

Marni has worked as a journalist and editor in independent media for the past ten years. She was founding co-editor of Spinach7 Magazine, assistant commissioning editor of The Next Big Thing edition of the Griffith REVIEW and has been a freelancer for outlets as diverse as Punk Planet in the US and Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat program. She has also worked as a sub-editor, website administrator and festival director. If she weren’t so busy she would have completed the last subject in her Masters in Journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney by now.

Rachel Hills, Associate Editor

Rachel is a widely published journalist whose writing on politics, media and culture has been published in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Bulletin, the Huffington Post, Girlfriend magazine and many more. Before joining newmatilda.com, Rachel ran a number of innovative independent media projects including electionTracker.net, which sent four youth journalists on the campaign trail during the 2004 Australian Federal election, and Interface, a magazine anthology of writing by Australia’s next generation of public thinkers, which launched at the 2007 Sydney Writers’ Festival. Her website is http://www.rachelhills.net/.

Rod McGuinness, General Manager

Rod has managed a number of organisations in industries including the arts, a community legal centre and human resources.

Sallie Don, Business Development

Sallie has just completed her Masters in Journalism at UTS. During this time she regularly broadcast on The Wire, a national community news and current affairs show. Sallie has previously taught at UTS in Public Communications. She has also worked with smh.com.au and the Australian Financial Review.

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