The Mandarin (website)

For the Marvel Comics character, see Mandarin (character).

The Mandarin is an Australian online magazine, owned by Private Media.

The Mandarin

Categories	Public sector
First issue	2014; 11 years ago (2014)
Country	Australia
Language	English
Website	themandarin.com.au

History

The Mandarin was launched in 2014 as a part of Private Media's "broader focus on business and the government sector"; Ken Henry, Lucy Turnbull, and Graeme Samuel served on the website's initial advisory committee.^[1][2][3] Tom Burton, former executive editor at The Sydney Morning Herald, was appointed publisher.^[4]

The website's audience grew to around 25,000 subscribers and 90,000 unique visitors to the website per month by 2018.^[5]

Chris Johnson was a past managing editor.^[6] In 2019 Tom Burton departed the company after being appointed editor of The Australian Financial Review's coverage of government issues.^[7]

The Mandarin's reporting has been referenced by The New Daily and the Sydney Morning Herald.^[8][9]

Description and people

As of June 2024^[update] Peter Gearin, formerly special reports editor at The Mandarin, is editor of the publication,^[10] which reports news of interest to Australian public sector managers.^[3]