Richard Cooke (journalist)
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Richard Cooke is an Australian journalist, author, and contributing editor for The Monthly.
Career[edit]
Cooke started his career as a member of Australian comedy group The Chaser’s creative team.[1][2]
His essay 'Bonfire for the Narratives' was included in the collection The Best Australian Essays 2017.[3]
His work in The Monthly won him Columnist of the Year at the Mumbrella Publish Awards in 2018.[4] He was also a finalist in the Walkley-Pascall Award for arts criticism for his 2017 essay 'The Crankhandle of History'.[5] He was The Monthly's inaugural US correspondent, beginning in 2018, where he published a weekly dispatch titled 'Tired of Winning'.[6]
In 2019 his first book Tired of Winning: A Chronicle of American Decline was published by Black Inc.[7] It followed Cooke as he moved to the US to document life under then President Donald Trump.[8] While there, Cooke was advised to wear body armour due to what he called "anti-media hatred".[9]
Cooke is currently working on his next book to be about Wikipedia,[10] following an essay he wrote about Wikipedia and its impact, published in Wired.[11]
He has contributed to The Saturday Paper,[12] The New York Times, The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Guardian, Longreads, Australian Foreign Affairs, The Age, and The Sydney Morning Herald.[1]
Bibliography[edit]
- 2019 - Tired of Winning: A Chronicle of American Decline[13]
- 2020 - On Robyn Davidson: Writers on Writers[14]
Awards[edit]
- 2018 - Mumbrella Publish Awards - Columnist of the Year.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Meet the Journalist Series - Spring 2019". University of Technology Sydney. 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- ↑ "Press the Press | Richard Cooke". Good Talent Media. 2020-10-07. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- ↑ Best Australian essays 2017. Anna Goldsworthy, Tim F. Flannery, Robert E. Skinner, Harriet Riley, Sonya Hartnett, John Clarke, Keane Shum, Richard Cooke, Nick Feik, Micheline Lee, Shannon Burns, Stan Grant, Mandy Sayer, Michael Mohhammed Ahmad, Moreno Giovannoni, Barry Humphries, Janine Mikosza, Melissa Howard, Amanda Niehaus, Jennifer Rutherford, Michael Adams, Sam Vincent, Lech Blaine, Helen Garner, James Wood, J. M. Coetzee, Sebastian Smee, Anwen Crawford. Carlton, Vic. 2017. ISBN 978-1-925435-92-4. OCLC 1044767996. Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Francis, Damian (2018-09-20). "Bauer Media and Bauer Trader win big at Mumbrella Publish Awards". Mumbrella. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- ↑ "Finalists for Walkley-Pascall, arts journalism awards announced | Books+Publishing". 30 May 2018. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- ↑ "Richard Cooke appointed The Monthly's inaugural US correspondent". Media Week. 17 May 2018. Retrieved 22 Nov 2022.
- ↑ Cooke, Richard; ProQuest (Firm) (25 March 2019), Tired of winning : a chronicle of american decline, Black Inc (published 2019), ISBN 978-1-74382-083-4
- ↑ Ghosh, Varun (2019-05-23). "Varun Ghosh reviews 'Tired of Winning: A chronicle of American decline' by Richard Cooke". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- ↑ "Reflecting on Murdoch and the mess of politics, Richard Cooke stirs the pot". The Citizen. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- ↑ "An experiment turned into the world's biggest encyclopedia". ABC Radio National. 2020-11-28. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- ↑ Cooke, Richard. "Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- ↑ "Interview with Richard Cooke, US correspondent and contributing editor at The Monthly magazine". www.medianet.com.au. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- ↑ Cooke, Richard (2019). Tired of Winning : a Chronicle of American Decline. Collingwood: Schwartz Publishing Pty, Limited. ISBN 978-1-74382-083-4. OCLC 1090494464. Search this book on
- ↑ Cooke, Richard (2020). Richard Cooke on Robyn Davidson. Carlton, Victoria. ISBN 978-1-76064-230-3. OCLC 1154607821. Search this book on
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