Colleen Ryan

Colleen Ryan was a Fairfax journalist for over 40 years. She is a former Editor of the Australian Financial Review and during her career she was Washington correspondent for the AFR and more recently China correspondent, based in Shanghai for 6 years. Colleen has worked across the group including a decade with the Sydney Morning Herald and six years with National Times. She has won four Walkley awards including the Gold Walkley and the award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism, as well as the Graham Perkins award for Australian Journalist of the Year. Colleen was the author of two books on the Fairfax Group. 'Corporate Cannibals' and 'Fairfax The Rise and Fall'.