Miranda Devine

About

Miranda Devine is a conservative Australian-American columnist and writer, now based in New York City. She hosted The Miranda Devine Show on Sydney radio station 2GB until it ended in 2015. She has written columns for Fairfax Media newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, and for News Limited newspapers Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Melbourne’s Sunday Herald Sun, and Perth’s Sunday Times. As of 2022, she writes for the New York Post. Some of her political opinion pieces and statements on the environment, race and social issues, such as likening the campaign for marriage equality to the tactics of ISIS and calling COVID-19 ‘the China Virus’, have been criticised as misrepresenting the facts and of ragebait journalism.

Devine is the eldest daughter of Frank Devine, a New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor and journalist, who died in 2009. She was born in New York, but grew up in Sydney and Tokyo, attending school at Loreto Kirribilli and the International School of the Sacred Heart respectively. She has a Master of Science in journalism from Northwestern University (USA) and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Macquarie…