Paul Whittaker is an Australian newspaper journalist and editor. In 2015, he was appointed editor-in-chief of The Australian.
Whittaker was editor of The Australian from 2007-2011, having previous held roles of national chief of staff and deputy editor.
From 2011 to 2015 he was editor of The Daily Telegraph, where he championed the Badgerys Creek Airport and the interests of Western Sydney. In 2014 he established the Bradfield Oration, a series of public talks addressing the future vision for Sydney.
Whittaker has won three Walkley Awards, including one in 2015 for Headline Journalism in the Daily Telegraph for his headlines: