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60 Minutes (Australian TV Program)
''60 Minutes'' is an Australian version of the United States television newsmagazine show '' 60 Minutes,'' airing since 1979 on Sunday nights on the Nine Network. A New Zealand version uses segments of the show. The program is one of five inducted into Australia’s television Logie Hall of Fame. History The program was founded by veteran television producer Gerard Stone, who was appointed its inaugural executive producer in 1979 by media magnate Kerry Packer. Stone devised it to be an Australian version of CBS's US ''Sixty Minutes'' program and it featured well known reporters Ray Martin, Ian Leslie and George Negus. Its prominent early programs included a 1981 interview Negus conducted with UK leader Margaret Thatcher, during which the prime minister aggressively countered his questions. Negus asked Thatcher why people described her as ''pig-headed'' and the Prime Minister demanded he tell her who, when and where such comments were made. In 1982, Jana Wendt interview ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News Magazine
A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published magazine, radio or television program, usually published weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories, in greater depth than do newspapers or newscasts, and aim to give the consumer an understanding of the important events beyond the basic facts. Broadcast news magazines Radio news magazines are similar to television news magazines. Unlike radio newscasts, which are typically about five minutes in length, radio news magazines can run from 30 minutes to three hours or more. Television news magazines provide a similar service to print news magazines, but their stories are presented as short television documentaries rather than written articles. These broadcasts serve as an alternative in covering certain issues more in depth than regular newscasts. The formula, first established by ''Panorama (TV series), Panorama'' on the BBC in 1953 has proved successful around the world. Televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Negus
George Edward Negus AM (born 13 March 1942) is an Australian journalist, author, television and radio presenter specialising in international affairs. He was a pioneer of Australian TV journalism, first appearing on the ABC’s groundbreaking This Day Tonight and later on Sixty Minutes. Negus was known for making complex international and political issues accessible to a broad audience through his down-to-earth, colloquial presentation style. His very direct interviewing technique occasionally caused confrontation, famously with Margaret Thatcher, but also led to some interviewees giving more information than they had given in other interviews. Recognition of his unique skills led to him hosting the ABC’s new show Foreign Correspondent and Dateline on SBS. He often reported from the frontline of dangerous conflicts and described himself as an “anti-war correspondent” who wanted people to understand the reasons behind why wars were senseless. He was awarded a Walkley Award f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Barry
Paul James Barry (born 24 February 1952) is an English-born, Australian-based journalist, newsreader and television presenter, who has won many awards for his investigative reporting. He previously worked for the BBC on numerous programs, before emigrating to Australia. Biography Early life Barry studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford. Early career Barry started his journalistic career in London as an economics correspondent for the weekly magazine ''Investors Chronicle''. In 1978, he joined the BBC as a reporter for ''The Money Programme'', ''Newsnight'', and then ''Panorama''. In 1986, he moved to Australia and started work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Four Corners From 1987 to 1994, Barry worked as an investigative reporter for the ABC's flagship current affairs program ''Four Corners'' specialising in economic matters, government departmental failures and corporate governance. A series of reports on disgraced businessman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Fanning
Ellen is a female given name, a diminutive of Elizabeth, Eleanor, Elena and Helen. Ellen was the 609th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden in 2004. People named Ellen include: *Ellen Adarna (born 1988), Filipino actress *Ellen Alaküla (1927–2011), Estonian actress *Ellen Palmer Allerton (1835–1893), American poet *Ellen Allien (born 1969), German electronic musician and music producer *Ellen Anckarsvärd (1833-1898), Swedish feminist *Ellen Andersen (1898–1989), Danish museum curator *Ellen Anderson (born 1959), American politician *Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born American photographer * Ellen Baake (born 1961), German mathematical biologist * Ellen S. Baker (born 1953), American physician and astronaut * Ellen Barkin (born 1954), American actress *Ellen Bass (born 1947), American poet and author * Ellen A. Dayton Blair (1837–1926), social reformer and art teacher *Ellen Bontje (born 1958), Dutch equestrian *Ellen Burka (1921–2016), Dutch and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey Curro
Tracey Ilana Curro (born 27 November 1963 in Ingham, Queensland) is an Australian journalist. Curro has previously been a news presenter on GMV-6, QTQ-9 and ATV-10 and a reporter on the Seven Network's ''Beyond 2000'', a science-technology show, and correspondent on ''60 Minutes (Australian TV program), 60 Minutes''. Career Curro is a graduate of the Queensland University of Technology (Bachelor of Business – Communications) and the Institute of Strategic Leadership, New Zealand. She was embroiled in a court case when she broke her contract with the producers of ''Beyond 2000'' to join ''60 Minutes'': ''Curro v Beyond Productions Pty Ltd'' (1993) 30 NSWLR 337, decided 7 May 1993. She can occasionally be heard filling in for regular presenters on 774 ABC Melbourne radio, notably filling in for a two-week period in 2005 following the departure of Virginia Trioli, and has written for ''The Australian Women's Weekly''. One of her prized moments of television occurred when she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Carleton
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Munro
Michael Kenneth Munro, (born 12 April 1953), is an Australian journalist and television presenter. Early life Munro cites a tough childhood—with an abusive and alcoholic mother—as one of the main reasons behind his motivation to succeed. Munro attended Sacred Heart Primary School in Mosman, New South Wales, and Marist Catholic College North Shore in North Sydney. He began his career at 17 as a copyboy on ''The Daily Mirror'' in 1971. He stayed in newspapers for 7 years, before trying television and not liking it. So he returned to newspapers when Rupert Murdoch sent him to New York to work in the NewsCorp bureau writing for newspapers in Great Britain and Australia. Television career In 1982, he returned to Sydney and television, where he started as a senior reporter in the Channel 10 newsroom. In 1984, he joined the Nine Network and Mike Willesee on the ''Willesee'' current affairs program. Two years later he replaced George Negus as the fifth male reporter on ''60 Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Byrne
Jennifer Victoria Byrne (born 5 March 1955) is an Australian journalist, television presenter and former book publisher. She hosted the monthly ABC television program ''The Book Club'', originally titled ''First Tuesday Book Club''. Early life Byrne was born in Melbourne and attended St Margaret's School as a boarding student. Career Byrne began her career in journalism at age 16, as a cadet at Melbourne's ''The Age'' newspaper. At age 23, she became the paper's San Francisco correspondent and later a feature writer. Byrne's television work began as a researcher for ''This Day Tonight's'' Melbourne unit and later as a reporter for ''Nationwide''. After returning to print media as assistant-editor of ''The Age'' "Monthly Review", she moved back to television in 1982, on Nine Network's ''Sunday'' program. On ''Sunday,'' in 1985, she won a Logie for her story on Paul Keating's tax summit. From 1986 to 1993, Byrne worked on the Nine Network's current affairs program ''60 Minute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff McMullen
Jeffrey John McMullen AM, is an Australian journalist and author and television presenter. He was a foreign correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for almost two decades (1966–1984), international reporter for the investigative television program '' Four Corners'' and later joined the Australian version of '' 60 Minutes'' (1984–2000). In 2007 he hosted a 33-part discussion series on ABC1 titled ''Difference of Opinion''. and later chaired many Indigenous forums on NITV. He is the author of a number of books including A Life of Extremes – Journeys and Encounters (HarperCollins Australia 2001); Dispossession : Neo Liberism and The Struggle For Aboriginal Land Ands Rights In The 21ST Century ( In Black & White, Connor Court Publishing, 2013) and Rolling Thunder: Voices Against Oppression (The Intervention 2013) Career McMullen graduated from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Arts. Through his work, McMullen has campaigned for improvement in health, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Baillieu
Katharine Jean Baillieu (born 17 January 1946) is an Australian former journalist. Early career Baillieu worked as a journalist and later as a personal assistant to Kerry Packer. In 1977, Baillieu was awarded the Douglas Wilkie Medal by the Anti-Football League. In an interview with ''The Australian'' in February 2009, Baillieu revealed that she almost became a reporter for ''60 Minutes'' and said that after she resigned, her role as an investigative journalist into asbestos was "ever so delicately erased... they airbrushed me out". Public controversies Baillieu has been involved in public controversies against development in and around Portsea. She has been described in the press as the "general for the old money push" in "a struggle of old and new money" about development in the area. However, Baillieu has stated: "This is a neighbourly, peaceful place. Portsea conjures up an image. But we are not exclusive. Anyone can come here." Lindsay Fox Baillieu was described as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Adams
Amelia Adams ( Charlton) is an Australian journalist, news presenter, producer and reporter. Early career In 2003, Adams completed a Bachelor of Communications in Journalism at Charles Sturt University and whilst she was completing her degree she worked at Sky News Australia. She has also worked as a producer and reporter at the Seven Network on ''Seven News'' and ''Sunrise'', and in 2005 moved to Network Ten in Brisbane to be a reporter and presenter on ''Ten News''. Nine Network In May 2008, Adams moved to the Nine Network in Sydney to become a general reporter on '' Nine News''. She has been a regular fill in presenter for a number of ''Nine News'' bulletins and a fill-in news presenter on ''Today'' and ''Weekend Today''. In 2012, she presented ''Nine Morning News'' and ''Nine Afternoon News'' whilst regular presenter Wendy Kingston was on maternity leave. In January 2013, Adams was appointed presenter for both ''Nine Morning News'' and ''Nine Afternoon News'' with Kingston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off (or spinoff) is a radio program, television program, film, video game or any narrative work, derived from already existing works that focus on more details and different aspects from the original work (e.g. particular topics, characters or events). One of the earliest spin-offs of the modern media era, if not the first, happened in 1941 when the supporting character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve from the old time radio comedy show ''Fibber McGee and Molly'' became the star of his own program ''The Great Gildersleeve'' (1941–1957). In genre fiction, the term parallels its usage in television; it is usually meant to indicate a substantial ''change in narrative viewpoint and activity'' from that (previous) storyline based on the activities of the series' principal protagonist and so is a shift to that action and overall narrative thread of some other protagonist, which now becomes the central or main thread (storyline) of the new sub-series. The ''new protagoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
