ABOUT CAROL SAFFER
Carol Saffer is an award-winning journalist.
She worked for the Times News Group, a regional independently-owned media organisation writing for two mastheads - The Ballarat Times News Group and The Golden Plains Times.
Carol was previously a reporter with Victorian regional paper The Moorabool News.
She contributed business news and feature stories for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Carol was a lead writer for online music magazine CutCommon.
Awards
AWARDS
Melbourne Press Club 2017 Student Journalist of the Year
The $10 billion battle for the nation's stationery cupboards....read
The Age - Business Day 3rd October 2017
Melbourne Press Club 2016 Student Journalist of the Year- Highly Commended
How a South Yarra dinner party and Harold Holt saved a Jewish boy from Hitler....read
Sydney Morning Herald 4th December 2016
PUBLISHED WORK
The following is a selection of some of my writing.
Each pieces is unique in style and content, and represents a distinct moment in my career.
Together they illustrate my skills as a journalist.
BALLARAT TIMES NEWS GROUP
Battling Ebola - a journey from Brown Hill to Sierra Leone to New York...read article
Exciting times ahead for Rising Star....read article
Blink and you could miss it...read article
Environment is as important as profit for business....read article
What has the selfie done to photographic portraiture....read article
THE MOORABOOL NEWS
Young officer on the move....read
Never a close shave...read
Making dough from wheat....read
A backyard is all you need....read
Pollie gives a crap....read
CWA - not just scones and tea....read
FAIRFAX MEDIA
How Bondi Born launched a bikini empire by exporting first....read article
Planets aligning for surge in solar systems....read article
Hot-desking and smartphones are driving a back pack boom....read article
Display 'stumble' sends profit tumbling at Reject Shop....read article
All banks ‘tarred’ but customers sticking with CBA....read article
'It still happens' - white men still dominate ASX boards....read article
CUTCOMMON
A clef of composers....read article
Nicholas McManus "The secret ingredient......" is Umberto Clerici....read article
Soundscapes and cutlery: Victoria Pham talks Sonant Bodies....read article
What does climate change sound like?....read article
Bassoonist Jack Schiller talks chamber music....read article