Sophie Black, a former Editor-in-Chief at Private Media, is Head of Publishing at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne.
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      When Fairfax went to court
    
    
      Sophie Black 
    
    
      24 September 2018    
    
      With the ACCC’s inquiry into the Nine–Fairfax deal continuing, has the NZ High Court given it a lead?
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      Power, in black and white
    
    
      Sophie Black 
    
    
      22 August 2018    
    
      From the archive | A man who seems relaxed about making life-and-death decisions might not be the best person to wield greater power
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      Cutting through
    
    
      Sophie Black 
    
    
      3 July 2018    
    
      Donald Trump forgot the most basic lesson of Australia’s detention regime: don’t mention the children
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      #MeToo gets closer to home
    
    
      Sophie Black 
    
    
      29 May 2018    
    
      Are restrictive defamation laws discouraging Australian women from coming forward?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      Zuckerberg’s gift
    
    
      Sophie Black 
    
    
      24 April 2018    
    
      Facebook’s chief executive made a surprise admission to Congress earlier this month. Yet we’re in danger of letting him off the hook
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      “We’re not just looking at who’s telling the stories, but the stories we’re choosing to tell”
    
    
      Sophie Black 
    
    
      23 March 2018    
    
      #MeToo leapt to prominence by naming names, but it also kicked off a quiet revolution in the media (including a long-overdue New York Times obituary for Charlotte Bronte)
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      Leaning back
    
    
      Sophie Black 
    
    
      10 November 2015    
    
      Books | What is valuable? What is important? What is right? What is natural? Anne-Marie Slaughter takes on the big issues confronting working women and men, writes Sophie Black    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      Girl, twenty-eight
    
    
      Sophie Black 
    
    
      22 October 2014    
    
      Girls creator Lena Dunham has the knack of bottling the essence of the thing, writes Sophie Black    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      Fast fashion
    
    
      Sophie Black 
    
    
      26 February 2013    
    
      Books | Elizabeth Cline’s three hundred-piece wardrobe makes her an average American consumer
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
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