Leo Shanahan has been appointed media editor for The Australian. Shanahan is currently a business journalist with The Oz and will start the role over the coming weeks.

Shanahan will also be co-host of Business Weekend on Sky News Live alongside Ticky Fullerton.

He had most recently been chief reporter for Your Money and theTICKY programme, and a business journalist for Sky News Live.

Prior to that, he was a Journalist for The Australian and The Age, and communications director for CrosbyTextor. He is a multi-Walkley Award Finalist and winner of a Westpac Excellence in Financial Journalism Award and News Awards.