
About
Juliet Rieden has worked for Australia’s highly respected, best-selling and oldest women’s monthly magazine The Australian Women’s Weekly for 12 years in roles from Deputy Editor to acting Editor-in-Chief. She is currently its Editor-at-Large, writing the main cover features and interviews, and working as the magazine’s royal correspondent and books editor.
On TV and radio she is a royal correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a commentator on networks including BBC, ITV, Times Radio, LBC, 2gb, Channel Nine, Channel Seven, Sky News Channel, SBS and Channel Ten.
Juliet is also a non-fiction author. Her critically acclaimed The Writing on the Wall is a powerful and deeply personal investigation into her family’s fate in the Holocaust and her father’s escape aged eight.
Juliet researched and ghost-wrote Rising Heart, the memoir of Sierra Leonean refugee Aminata Conteh-Biger who was brutally kidnapped by rebels in the civil war and escaped to Australia to courageously create a new life as a humanitarian changemaker.
Juliet’s hardback The Royals in Australia, featuring more than 150 photographs, charts the history of the royal family in Australia from 1867 to the present day and is based on extensive research and interviews including access to private letters and diaries in the Royal Archives in Windsor Castle.
Juliet contributed two chapters to Untold Resilience, stories of courage, survival and love from women who have gone before. She also contributed to Postcards From Tomorrow and wrote and edited three editions of the Time Out Guide to Sydney published by Penguin Books, London.
Juliet joined Prince’s Trust Australia as a Board Trustee in 2018.
Juliet has been a journalist for more than 30 years working between the UK and Australia for magazines, newspapers and online sites as a writer and editor. Prior to joining The Australian Women’s Weekly Juliet was Deputy Editor of InStyle Australia and Senior Commissioning Editor at the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper and Entertainments Editor at UK’s The Mail on Sunday newspaper in London.
Other publications Juliet has worked for on staff or freelance include Point de Vue magazine (France), Stellar magazine (Australia), Town & Country website (US), Hello! magazine (UK), TVTimes magazine (UK), Radio Times magazine (UK), The European newspaper (UK), Today newspaper (UK), Time Out magazine London, The Weekend Australian newspaper, The Sun-Herald (Sydney) newspaper, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper (Sydney), 9Honey website (Australia), The Carousel website (Australia), Who Weekly magazine (Australia), TV Week magazine (Australia), New Woman magazine (Australia), Vacations & Travel magazine (Australia).
Juliet co-hosted 17 episodes of the podcast The Royal Record, created by Listnr (Australia).
Juliet has been a judge for the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Walkley Awards book category and an interviewee and interviewer for book festival events in Australia.