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Simon McCarthy

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Newcastle
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Covers:  Breaking and general news, community and regional affairs, feature writing and profiles, subcultures and human interest, news and feature photography and multimedia production.
Journalist writing and taking photos for the Newcastle Herald in NSW.
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Simon McCarthy’s Biography

Simon McCarthy is a writer and journalist living and working in Newcastle NSW.
McCarthy has worked in the Newcastle Herald newsroom since 2017, where he reports on local and regional affairs in the Hunter.
He writes general news for the Herald, and regularly contributed features covering the Hunter's subcultures and people for the paper's Saturday magazine, Weekender.
McCarthy's work has appeared in print and online across the Australian Community Media network, as well as in former Fairfax Media prior to the organisation's divestment.
He has experience in photography, videography, podcasting and digital news production with the Herald and served as the masthead's daily Topics correspondent from 2023 to 2025.
He has worked in local news since 2013, beginning as a reporter for the Glen Innes Examiner, before moving the Northern Daily Leader as a digital news producer for ACM's New England regional newspapers.