Fran Molloy is an Australian freelance journalist and author, and founder of the Freeline forum for independent journalists in Australia. She is also a freelance member of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance

Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is the Australian trade union and professional organisation which covers the media, entertainment, sports and arts industries...

. Her work has appeared in such newspapers as The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The...

, The Age

The Age

The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...

 and The Sun-Herald

The Sun-Herald

The Sun-Herald is an Australian tabloid newspaper published on Sundays in Sydney by Fairfax Media. It is the Sunday counterpart of The Sydney Morning Herald. In the 6 months to September 2005, The Sun-Herald had a circulation of 515,000...

 as well as a range of magazines including Fast Thinking, The Walkley Magazine published by the Walkley Awards

Walkley Awards

The annual Walkley Awards, under the administration of the Walkley Foundation for Journalism, are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. Finalists are chosen by an independent board of eminent journalists and photographers. The awards cover all media including...

, G Magazine (Australia)

G Magazine (Australia)

G magazine is an Australian consumer sustainability magazine, published in Sydney since November 2006. G magazine is a bi-monthly publication.Emma Bowen is G magazine's editor, and Caitlin Howlett is the features and online writer...

, Practical Parenting published by Pacific Magazines

Pacific Magazines

Pacific Magazines is a magazine publisher operating in Australia and New Zealand, owned by Seven Media Group. It has it roots in the Southdown Press, the publishers of New Idea and long owned by the Murdoch family...

 and others.

She also writes for major online publications including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

. She is also a food reviewer for regular Sydney restaurant guides such as Eating out with Kids, the Good Pub Guide and Cheap Eats Sydney.

She blogs at Practical Parenting and Fadgetry, an online gadget guide. In 2007, Molloy was commended by mental health advocacy Stigmawatch for balanced reporting on mental health issues.

As well as hundreds of articles, Molloy has written the books Careers in Journalism (2004) (with Helena Janson) and Extreme: jobs your mother doesn't want you to know about (2006).
A former magazine editor and radio producer, Molloy was previously manager of the Australian Centre of Independent Journalism and also taught at the University of Technology. She regularly comments publicly on issues related to freelance journalism

Molloy was educated at De La Salle College (Cronulla, NSW)

De La Salle College (Cronulla, NSW)

De La Salle College Cronulla is a Catholic systemic, senior secondary, co-educational day school, located in Cronulla, a southern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

 and lives in the Sutherland Shire

Sutherland Shire

The Sutherland Shire is a Local Government Area in the Southern Sydney region of Sydney, Australia. Geographically, it is the area to the south of Botany Bay and the Georges River...

with her husband Brendan FitzPatrick and four children.