Gay Alcorn is an award winning journalist based in Melbourne, Australia.

She serves as Melbourne editor of Guardian Australia.

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She began her career in Queensland, and joined The Sunday Age before its launch in 1989.

Alcorn worked as the Darwin correspondent for four years, and was The Age's Washington correspondent from 1999-2002, where she covered both the 2000 presidential election and the September 11th attacks.

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She has been award three Walkley Awards, the latest in 2004 when she was part of the investigative unit which profiled former ALP leader Mark Latham.

Her other Walkleys were for news and feature writing.

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