Mike Cherney

Mike Cherney covers politics, business and general news in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region from The Wall Street Journal's bureau in Sydney. Recent topics include rising competition between the U.S. and China in the Pacific, diplomacy and military issues, climate change, indigenous issues, and the aviation and gambling industries. He has also written more than 20 A-heds, the widely read, quirky news feature that appears on the newspaper's front page everyday.

Mike was part of a team that received an honorable mention for the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Best in Business award in the travel and transportation category for coverage of Covid-19's impact on airline pilots.

Mike has lived in Sydney since 2016. Before that, he covered financial markets for the Journal in New York. He has reported from several other international locations in his career, including South Africa, New Zealand, Fiji and Hong Kong, and has also written for local newspapers in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Virginia and South Carolina. He graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.