Kathy Lipari has decided to leave News Corp Australia after more than 20 years, working across the company's national, metro and community titles. During this time she has held key roles including National Head of the News Network, National Head of Digital and Editor-in-Chief of NewsLocal. She was also Editor of the Manly Daily and Head of News at The Daily Telegraph.

Kathy was most recently National Editor News360 & Commercial Editorial for News Corp Australia's commercial editorial arm, News360, where she worked across NCA divisions, Foxtel, Sky, REA Group and Harper Collins.

Kathy's last day is today, 27^th August. She plans on taking a career break.