Sharri Markson

Sharri Markson (born 8 March 1984) is an Australian journalist. She is National Political Editor for The Daily Telegraph.

Markson was born and raised in Sydney. She worked for The Sunday Telegraph, where she was twice named News Limited's Young Journalist of the Year. She joined the Seven Network in 2011, and was part of a team of journalists who won a Walkley award for TV news reporting.

Markson was Australian editor of Cleo for one year in 2013, While editor, she made the decision to no longer mention sex on the magazine's cover.

Markson became media editor of The Australian newspaper in February 2014. There she was "was noted for her aggressive pursuit of stories involving the ABC and Fairfax Media." She shifted to a senior writing role in 2015, and in September 2016 was appointed National Political Editor for The Daily Telegraph.

Markson has at times engaged in undercover journalism. While working for The Sun in London she posed as a PR executive requiring an escort in order to report on high-end male prostitutes. In 2005, she visited a hospital ward "looking upset, with a bunch of flowers" in order to interview John Tulloch, a survivor of the 7/7 bombings. In 2014, Markson went undercover as a student in order to investigate claims of indoctrination.

Markson's work has occasionally attracted controversy. In November 2015, Markson was detained by Israeli security officials for breaching protocol during a visit to the Ziv Medical Centre in Safed. In February 2016, Shaoquett Moselmane, a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council sued Markson for defamation after Markson had accused him of making racist comments.