Mark Riley

Mark Riley is the Political Editor for the Seven Network. He started in journalism with the Newcastle Herald as a cadet in 1979 and moved to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1990, covering State and Federal politics. From 1998 to 2002, he was New York Correspondent for the SMH and Age, returning to become the SMH’s chief political correspondent in Canberra. He moved to television in March 2004. He has won a Walkey Award for international reporting and was the first television journalist to win the Press Gallery Journalist Of The Year Award. He reports nightly for the Seven Network’s national 6pm bulletin and appears regularly on the Sunrise and Weekend Sunrise programs as well as weekly appearances analysing politics on ABC Radio Sydney and regular appearances on ABC TV’s Insiders.