Julie Szego

Julie Szego is a Melbourne-based author and journalist.[1]

Julie Szego
OccupationJournalist, Author
NationalityAustralian

Career

Szego started working as a lawyer before switching to writing.[2] 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.[3] She was sacked as a columnist after calling out the newspaper over its refusal to run her commissioned article on youth gender transition.[4] She self-published the piece on Substack.[5] The controversy was covered by the ABC's Media Watch program[6] in a segment that generated controversy of its own.[7][8]

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.[9][10] She also wrote for The Guardian.[11]

She has taught journalism and creative non-fiction at RMIT, Monash, and other Melbourne-area universities.[12]

Szego is the author of non-fiction book The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama, which was shortlisted for the Victorian[13] and NSW Premiers’[14] Literary Awards for 2015. She is planning to write a book about gender ideology in Australia.[15][16]

Personal

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

References
  1. "Julie Szego". The Age. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  2. "Julie Szego". Wild Dingo Press. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  3. "The Age sacks columnist Julie Szego amid gender furore". The Australian. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  4. "Silencing of Julie Szego". LGB Alliance. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  5. "Question of Transition". Substack. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  6. "Transgender TERF war". ABC. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  7. "Trans Justice Project Demands Apology From 'Media Watch'". Star Observer. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  8. "ABC stands by Media Watch segment on Julie Szego despite backlash over accuracy". Crikey. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  9. "Julie Szego". MHM. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  10. "George Szego". Monash University. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  11. "Julie Szego". Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  12. "Julie Szego". Melbourne Jewish Book Week. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  13. "Diverse 2015 Victorian Premiers Literary Award Shortlist features itinerant novelist Ceridwan Dovey". SMH. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  14. "NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2015 shortlists announced". Books and Publishing. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  15. "Julie Szego Dropped for her Gender Critical Reporting". Binary. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  16. "I was sacked for writing about gender". Unherd. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
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