Journalist and editor, Bruce Guthrie began as a copyboy and completed a cadetship on the Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1985 he became the United States of America (USA) west coast correspondent for the Herald and Weekly Times based in Los Angeles. Guthrie returned to Australia in 1987 as deputy editor of the Herald. He was appointed editor of the Sunday Age in 1992 and the Age in 1995. In 1998 he moved to New York in the USA as senior editor of People magazine and in 1999 became the editor of Who Weekly. In 2004 he returned to Australia as editor of the Weekend Australian. In February 2007 he was appointed editor-in-chief of the Herald Sun until November 2008. The circumstances of his leaving the Herald Sun is the subject of his autobiography Man Bites Murdoch (2010).

Source: Melbourne, University Publishing website, www.mup.com.au (sighted 11/10/2010)