Career
Naparstek was appointed as editor of the current affairs magazine The Monthly in May 2009. From February 2012 until August 2015, he edited Good Weekend, which is inserted weekly in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. After graduating with degrees in Arts & Law (Honours) from the University of Melbourne, he was awarded an Owen Fellowship to study at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he co-edited The Jacqueline Rose Reader (Duke Uttar Pradesh).
A collection of his magazine profiles was published by Scribe in 2009 as In Conversation and translated into Portuguese and Chinese.
In 2014 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study new funding models for quality journalism.