In 2003, he spent two years as a New York correspondent for News Corp Australia, before returning to Canberra as the political editor of The Advertiser.
[1] He became chief political correspondent at Fairfax Media's The Sydney Morning Herald in 2006.
[2] He won the Paul Lyneham Award for Canberra press gallery excellence in 2012 and again in 2013.
[4] Coorey also regularly appears on political panel television programs such as Insiders and Speers Tonight.
[2] Coorey is married to Fleur Anderson, a fellow journalist at The Australian Financial Review.