Jack Latimore (Birpai–Thungutti) is a writer and journalist based in Melbourne.

 

He is the current Enterprise Fellow for the First Nations Journalism Scholarship Project at the University of Melbourne.

 

Between 2021 and 2024, Latimore served as the first Aboriginal journalist assigned to the Indigenous Affairs round in the 170-year history of The Age newspaper.

 

Before joining The Age, he held a range of editorial and reporting roles across Australian media, including Digital Managing Editor at National Indigenous Television (NITV), columnist for Guardian Australia, correspondent for the Aboriginal community newspaper Koori Mail, and daily editor at IndigenousX.

 

His journalism and essays have appeared widely in Australian and international publications, including GQ, Rolling Stone Australia, NME, Meanjin, Inside Story, Griffith Review, Overland, Crikey, SBS, ABC, Guardian Weekly, the World Health Organization, and Reconciliation Australia, among others.

 

Latimore worked closely with Eddie Betts on the bestselling memoir ,The Boy from Boomerang Crescent (Simon & Schuster Australia, 2022), where he is credited with providing the book’s cultural edit.

 

In 2024, Scribner Australia signed Latimore to write a book examining the fatal 2019 police shooting of Warlpiri teenager Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu, the criminal trial of Zachary Rolfe, and the subsequent coronial inquest. The book is scheduled for publication in early 2027.

 

His work has also appeared in numerous anthologies, including Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, Dear Son, This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction, Best Australian Stories 2016, Best Summer Stories, and Paradise to Paranoia.

 

Latimore created and produced the Take It Blak podcast for NITV and has worked on several projects aimed at strengthening Indigenous participation and representation in Australian journalism. 

 

In 2016, he received the inaugural John Newfong Prize from the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia for reporting on Indigenous affairs. The same year he became the first Aboriginal journalist shortlisted for a Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards as a finalist for the Keith Dunstan Quill for Commentary.