Niki Savva joins The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald

Award-winning political commentator and author Niki Savva will join The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald as a columnist from August.

Savva, a regular on ABC’s political program Insiders, was most recently a columnist for News Corp’s national newspaper The Australian. She has also worked as a political correspondent for The Australian and led the Canberra bureaux of The Herald Sun and The Age. During her career in journalism, she has covered ten prime ministers.

Niki Savva is joining The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

Savva was also a staffer to former prime minister John Howard and former treasurer Peter Costello. Mr Costello is chairman of Nine Entertainment Co, the owner of this masthead.

Tory Maguire, executive editor of The Age and the Herald, said Savva was a “must-read” columnist.

“Niki Savva is a political institution who, as anyone who has read her hilarious book So Greek would know, has been in and around Australian politics and journalism since the field of combat was in Old Parliament House,” Maguire said. “Her weekly columns and other books about our three most recent prime ministers have always been a must read. We’re delighted that she is joining The Age and Herald’s stable of columnists.”

Savva quit The Australian last month. Her exit coincided with the arrival of a weekly column by Peta Credlin, who was chief of staff to former prime minister Tony Abbott. This masthead’s CBD column reported that the two columns were set to appear in the newspaper on the same day. Savva wrote an award-winning book in 2016 titled The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin destroyed their own government. Her latest book published in 2019, Plots and Prayers, chronicled the demise of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and the rise of his successor, Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Savva’s column will appear weekly in The Age and the Herald from Thursday, August 5.