Michael Sheather, Associate Editor (news) at The Australian Women’s Weekly, has been named this year’s Feature Writer of the Year by the Magazine Publishers of Australia (MPA).
Michael was named MPA Journalist of the Year in 1998 after a news-breaking AWW cover story about Thredbo landslide survivor, Stuart Diver. He was born in Narrandera, in south-west NSW, and has a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) degree from Mitchell College (now Charles Sturt University), Bathurst. Michael, 46, lives in Sydney with his wife and their three children.