Julie Tullberg
Julie Tullberg is the night sports editor for heraldsun.com.au.
Julie specialised in sports science before joining the Sunday Herald Sun in 1993. From 1997 to 2003, She co-wrote three Australian swimming textbooks for AUSTSWIM teachers and coaches. She has lectured in fluid mechanics, swimming and related sports sciences since 1992. She is a teacher of News Ltd cadets and teaches journalism at Monash University in Melbourne.
Julie majored in AFL football at Deakin University during her seven-year study program and worked with some of the AFL’s leading coaches and footballers. She is a nationally accredited Level 2 Australian football coach and has written on AFL since 1994.
Julie reported at the 2004 Athens Olympics and was awarded the 2004 ASCTA print media award for swimming. In 2003, she won the Commonwealth Sports Award for her contribution to sports journalism.
Julie is a member of the Herald Sun Online team that won a Walkley Award for Outstanding Continuous Coverage of an Issue or Event for its coverage of the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009. She was night editor on Black Saturday, leading the weekend night coverage that documented the worst disaster in Australia’s history.
Julie is also a mother of two children.
Articles by Julie Tullberg
Screams for help - the silent bullying epidemic
The silent epidemic - bullying - is being confronted with screams for help. Incidents of cyber bullying, workplace bullying and…... Read more
‘Floaties’ make a mockery of elite swimming
I call them “floaties” - swimsuits that float. Just watch all the torpedoes fly on top of the water in…... Read more
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