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Samantha Louise Maiden is an Australian political journalist. She is currently political editor for news.com.au, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia.
As a student at the University of Adelaide in 1992, she edited On Dit, the student newspaper.
She moved to Canberra to work as a political correspondent in 1998. She wrote for a number of News Corp Sunday papers, including The Sunday Telegraph, Herald Sun and Sunday Mail. Maiden was known for breaking exclusive political stories for News Corp papers. She also appeared as a commentator on television news programs, including Today and Pyne & Marles.
In 2016, Maiden said that Peter Dutton, the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, had inadvertently sent a text message describing her as a "mad fucking witch" directly to her, instead of a colleague, after Maiden wrote a critical opinion piece. The "witch incident" became internationally significant when Marvel Comics's dark hero Jessica Jones tweeted encouragement to Maiden "welcoming her to the club (of mad fucking witches)".
She joined Sky News Australia as political reporter in 2017, first appearing on 30 January 2017. She resigned from Sky News in June 2018.
She then wrote for the online newspaper The New Daily.
In April 2020 Maiden returned to News Corp Australia as political editor of its news website news.com.au.
Career
Maiden has worked as a journalist since 1994.
Awards
Personal life
On 6 April 2016, Maiden pleaded guilty to a drink driving charge and two "fail to obey police" charges in Goulburn, having recorded a blood alcohol reading of 0.136 on 20 March 2016. On 18 May 2016, Maiden was given a 12-month good behaviour bond, disqualified from driving for seven months, and fined $1000.
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