Tory Maguire

Tory Maguire joined The Daily Telegraph in Sydney in 2000 as a Copy Girl – one of the last in the news room to answer to the name “Copy” and spend most of the day running to the shops to buy cigarettes for senior staff.

After completing a cadetship in late 2001 Tory was sent to Canberra where she covered federal politics and general news for the Telegraph, including the Canberra bush fires, the 2004 Federal Election, and the devastation in Thailand after the Asian Tsunami. Her last months in Canberra were spent chronicling the dying days of the Mark Latham era.

After three and a half years in the Press Gallery, Tory returned to Sydney to join the Telegraph’s editorial team. She transferred from Canberra to Sydney via Gallipoli, Turkey, where as a certifiable history nut she had the great pleasure of covering the 90th anniversary of Anzac Day.

Back in Sydney on the Telegraph’s “back bench” Tory had particular responsibility for the paper’s political coverage. Her roles included Night Editor, Assistant Editor, and Assistant Editor (Political Affairs).

For most of those four years Tory also had a weekly column on the opinion pages of the paper, with a broad brief that spanned political policy to pop culture.

In April 2009 she was appointed Deputy Editor of The Punch.