Jack McGinn joined Business News in 2023 as a senior journalist, covering resources (gold), energy, defence and state politics.
Since entering the WA media industry in 2014, his various roles have included a regional stint as a subeditor at the Geraldton Guardian newspaper and resources reporting at Mining News.
Then, Mr McGinn spent five years aseditor, assistant editor, senior journalist and content manager across a range of print publications spanning resources, business, politics, homebuilding, real estate and travel at Seven West Media.
Prior to Business News, he carried out writing, editing, social media and investor communications duties at Stockhead for more than two years.
Mr McGinn studied at Curtin University, where he graduated with a double major in Journalism and International Relations.
Workers at Inpex's Ichthys platform off the WA coast have started to strike, despite acknowledgement by their union of significant progress on a bargaining agreement.
Florida-based Elliott Investment Management has taken an interest in Northern Star, weighing in on its leadership succession and calling for an operational review or business sale.
Meg O'Neill-led BP will sell down five per cent of its majority stake in the Woodside-operated $48 billion Browse joint venture, in the project's latest ownership shuffle.
Western Australia's resources royalties hit $10.6 billion last year, as investment in the sector reached its highest value since the height of the early 2010s mining boom.
Fortescue Metals chief executive Dino Otranto has slammed the powerful Chamber of Minerals and Energy of WA, while backing his company's position on diesel tax rebates.
Gina Rinehart has secured an indirect 9.15 per cent interest in Southern Cross Media Group, through a loan to Kerry Stokes's long-time lieutenant Bruce McWilliam.
Fortescue deputy chair Mark Barnaba believes the Andrew Forrest-led company would struggle to get built in the modern climate, because of heavy regulatory burden.
Nine Entertainment's national news content director, Gareth Parker, has quit the network and will return to Perth to take up a role in the Forrest family's business empire.
Energy infrastructure specialist GenusPlus Group will spend up to $400 million to buy out Brisbane-based MPC Kinetic, in a move which will give it east coast gas exposure.
P&N Bank will pursue a merger with Bank Australia and a headquarters move away from Perth, less than six months after a $30 billion attempt to merge with Great Southern Bank fell flat.
Nine business chambers representing parts of Europe are planning a strategic alliance, in the wake of the recent free trade agreement between Australia and the EU.
Woodside Energy has ramped up its Browse project's PR offensive, commissioning an independent paper highlighting the energy importance of the giant gas project.
Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson has announced the exit of two Synergy directors and backed its chair for another term, months after ordering a review of its board.
Wiluna Mining Corporation management has sought Supreme Court intervention in its ongoing control spat with an entity linked to prominent prospector Mark Creasy.
Hancock Prospecting has referred an $850 million gas plant to regulators, outlining a Perth Basin gas vision beyond the assets it acquired from Mineral Resources in 2024.
Woodside Energy has appointed Breyden Lonnie as its executive vice president and Australian chief operating officer, filling the role vacated by new CEO Liz Westcott.
A subsidiary company holding a 10 per cent stake in the Shell-led Prelude LNG project recorded a $58.3 million impairment on its stake in the asset last year.
A regional development assessment panel has unanimously approved Synergy's contentious $500 million Scott River wind farm, despite significant public concern over the project.
Average renewable contributions to Western Australia's wholesale electricity market fell back more than 6 per cent quarter-on-quarter during the three months to March 31.
Woodside Energy's new chief executive has flagged a cost-focused review of the business, following a quarter in which realised prices rose 11 per cent for its product.
Mark Pownall, Jack McGinn, Tom Zaunmayr and Claire Tyrrell discuss Woodside's AGM, BHP-China impasse ending, exploration costs reprieve, Fortescue's green power play and more.
Woodside Energy has been grilled over its claim the Browse project would be rendered uneconomic under a mooted gas export tax, at a Greens-led senate committee in Perth.