Julie Szego is a Melbourne-based author and journalist.

Career

Szego started working as a lawyer before switching to writing. She wrote for The Age on and off for more than two decades as a social affairs reporter, senior writer, leader writer and most recently as a weekly columnist before being sacked by the paper in June 2023. She was sacked as a columnist after calling out the newspaper over its refusal to run her commissioned article on youth gender transition. She self-published the piece on Substack. The controversy was covered by the ABC's Media Watch program in a segment that generated controversy of its own.

Julie Szego

Szego wrote a monthly column for The Australian Jewish News for seven years and edited her father's 2001 memoir, Two Prayers to One God. She also wrote for The Guardian.

Julie Szego

She has taught journalism and creative non-fiction at RMIT, Monash, and other Melbourne-area universities.

Julie Szego

Szego is the author of non-fiction book The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama, which was shortlisted for the Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Literary Awards for 2015. She is planning to write a book about gender ideology in Australia.

Personal

Szego is the partner of Tony Lupton. Tony and Julie have two daughters.

References

Living people

1988 births

Australian journalists

21st-century Australian writers

20th-century Australian journalists

20th-century Australian women writers

20th-century Australian non-fiction writers

21st-century Australian journalists

21st-century Australian women writers

21st-century Australian non-fiction writers