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Cyril Pearl
Cyril Alston Pearl (11 April 1904 – 3 March 1987) was an Australian journalist, editor, author, social historian, wit and television personality. Life and career He was born in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria on 11 April 1904, to Jewish gem-dealer, Joseph Pearl, and his wife Goldy, both immigrants from Britain. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and Hale College, in Perth, after the family moved to Western Australia. Cyril returned to Victoria to attended the University of Melbourne, where he studied philosophy and Russian, leaving without a degree. During his first year at university he became co-editor of the student newspaper ''Farrago''. He established the literary monthly, ''Stream'', in 1931, which lasted only three issues. He also founded Transition Press, with artist Irma Janetzki, whom he married in 1934. His career in journalism began in 1933 when he joined the staff of the ''Star'' newspaper in Melbourne. He had become an accomplished reporter, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journalist
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism. Roles Journalists can be broadcast, print, advertising, and public relations personnel, and, depending on the form of journalism, the term ''journalist'' may also include various categories of individuals as per the roles they play in the process. This includes reporters, correspondents, citizen journalists, editors, editorial-writers, columnists, and visual journalists, such as photojournalists (journalists who use the medium of photography). A reporter is a type of journalist who researches, writes and reports on information in order to present using sources. This may entail conducting interviews, information-gathering and/or writing articles. Reporters may split their time between working in a newsroom, or from home, and going ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australian
''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatewatching." (2008). "''The Australian'' has long positioned itself as a loyal supporter of the incumbent government of Prime Minister John Howard, and is widely regarded as generally favouring the conservative side of politics." As the only Australian daily newspaper distributed nationally, its readership of both print and online editions was 2,394,000. Its editorial line has been self-described over time as centre-right. Parent companies ''The Australian'' is published by News Corp Australia, an asset of News Corp, which also owns the sole daily newspapers in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, and Darwin, and the most circulated metropolitan daily newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne. News Corp's Chairman and Founder is Rupert Murdoch. ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 Births
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National Library Of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australians, Australian people", thus functioning as a national library. It is located in Parkes, Australian Capital Territory, Parkes, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ACT. Created in 1960 by the ''National Library Act'', by the end of June 2019 its collection contained 7,717,579 items, with its manuscript material occupying of shelf space. The NLA also hosts and manages the renowned Trove cultural heritage discovery service, which includes access to the Australian Web Archive and National edeposit (NED), a large collection of digitisation, digitised newspapers, official documents, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Dictionary Of Biography
The ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history. Initially published in a series of twelve hard-copy volumes between 1966 and 2005, the dictionary has been published online since 2006 by the National Centre of Biography at ANU, which has also published ''Obituaries Australia'' (OA) since 2010. History The ADB project has been operating since 1957. Staff are located at the National Centre of Biography in the History Department of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Since its inception, 4,000 authors have contributed to the ADB and its published volumes contain 9,800 scholarly articles on 12,000 individuals. 210 of these are of Indigenous Australians, which has been explained by Bill Stanner's "cult of forgetfulness" theory around the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chester Wilmot
Reginald William Winchester Wilmot (21 June 1911 – 10 January 1954) was an Australian war correspondent who reported for the BBC and the ABC during the Second World War. After the war he continued to work as a broadcast reporter, and wrote a well-appreciated book about the liberation of Europe. He was killed in the crash of a BOAC Comet (''Yoke Peter'') over the Mediterranean Sea. Early life Wilmot was born in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne; he was the son of Reginald Wilmot, a sports journalist, and grandson of surveyor JGW Wilmot. He attended Melbourne Grammar School and then studied history, politics and law under Sir Ernest Scott at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Trinity College and became interested in debating; after he graduated in 1936, he went on an international debating tour. One of the stops was in Nazi Germany where he went to a Nuremberg Rally. Wilmot began to work as a legal clerk in 1939. War reporter After working as a law clerk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Moorehead
Alan McCrae Moorehead, (22 July 1910 – 29 September 1983) was a war correspondent and author of popular histories, most notably two books on the nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile, ''The White Nile'' (1960) and ''The Blue Nile'' (1962). Australian-born, he lived in England, and Italy, from 1937. Biography Alan Moorehead was born in Melbourne, Australia. He was educated at Scotch College, with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne. He travelled to England in 1937 and became a renowned foreign correspondent for the London ''Daily Express''. Writer, world traveller, biographer, essayist, journalist, Moorehead was one of the most successful writers in English of his day. He married Lucy Milner, who at the ''Daily Express'' in 1937 "presided over a women's page free of the patronising sentimentality which marked much writing for women at the time". During World War II he won an international reputation for his coverage of campaigns in the Middle East and As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Ryan (columnist)
Peter Allen Ryan MM (4 September 1923 – 13 December 2015) was a newspaper columnist, author, World War II spy, director of Melbourne University Press and an officer of the Victorian Supreme Court. Life and career The son of the World War I veteran and VFL footballer Emmett Ryan, Peter Ryan was educated at Malvern Grammar School, near his home in Glen Iris in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. He left school at 16 to work in the Victorian public service, but as soon as he turned 18 he enlisted in the army to fight in World War II. He served as an intelligence operative behind enemy lines in New Guinea for eighteen months, much of the time alone. He was awarded the Military Medal and mentioned in despatches. His 1959 book ''Fear Drive My Feet'' is his famous account of his experiences. On his return to Australia, he served under Alf Conlon at the Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs.Sligo, G. 2012.''The Backroom Boys: Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clem Christesen
Clement Byrne Christesen (28 October 1911 – 28 June 2003) was the founder of the Australian literary magazine ''Meanjin''. He served as the magazine's editor from 1940 until 1974. Biography Early years Clement Byrne Christesen was born and spent his early life in Townsville. His father, Patrick, was of mixed Irish and Danish descent, while his mother Susan (née Byrne), was mostly Irish. The family moved to Brisbane in 1917, where Christesen later attended the University of Queensland. Career After leaving university, Christesen worked as a journalist at Brisbane's ''Courier-Mail'' and the ''Telegraph'', as well as a publicity officer for the Queensland government. Christesen was founding editor of '' Meanjin Papers'' which was first published in 1940, following his return from overseas travel. With an offer of full-time salary and commercial support for the publication, the magazine and its editor moved to the University of Melbourne in 1945. He retired as editor in 1974. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hughes (journalist)
Richard Joseph Hughes CBE (5 March 19064 January 1984) was an Australian journalist who spent much of his life in the Far East as correspondent for ''The Times'', ''The Economist'' and the ''Far Eastern Economic Review''. He was the inspiration for the fictional character Dikko Henderson in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel '' You Only Live Twice'', and for "Old Craw" in John le Carré's ''The Honourable Schoolboy''. Early life Hughes was born on 5 March 1906 at Prahran, Melbourne, Australia. He was the eldest child of Richard Hughes, a salesman, and his wife Katie, née McGlade.Prudence Torney-ParlickiHughes, Richard Joseph (1906–1984) ''Australian Dictionary of Biography''. Retrieved 30 January 2021. Career His working life began at the Victorian Railways and he acquired his first journalistic experiences as a writer for the house magazine ''The Victorian Railways Magazine'' which is where he acquired the poetic style of writing for which he later became famous. He later wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Turnbull
Stanley Clive Perry Turnbull (22 December 1906 – 25 May 1975) was an Australian writer and journalist. He was born in Glenorchy in Tasmania. He joined '' The Mercury'' newspaper as a reporter in 1922 and then moved to Melbourne where he worked on '' The Herald''. He is best known for his book ''Black War'' that examined the extermination of Indigenous Australians Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ... in Tasmania. He also wrote a series of biographies. Bibliography * ''Black War: The Extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines'', F. W. Cheshire, 1943; Sun Books, 1948 * ''A Concise History of Australia'', Thames and Hudson, 1965. References The Australian Dictionary of Biography 1906 births 1975 deaths Australian biographers Male biographers 20th-century bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Would You Believe? (game Show)
''Would You Believe?'' was an Australian television game show that ran from 1970 to 1974. It was made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the first episode screened on 9 February 1970. Each episode ran for 30 minutes and screened in black and white, on Sunday nights, at 7.30pm. It was described as, a “game of truth and/or lie about Australia’s early days and ways.” The show was enlivened by inventive and witty ad-libbing. The host of the program was Peter Lazar. Two teams of three people took turns to tell stories about some person, event or place. The rotating group of panellists included Jacki Weaver, Cyril Pearl, Michael Baume, Noeline Brown, Len Evans and Frank Hardy Francis Joseph Hardy (21 March 1917 – 28 January 1994), published as Frank J. Hardy and also under the pseudonym Ross Franklyn, was an Australian novelist and writer. He is best known for his 1950 novel '' Power Without Glory'', and for his .... References External links * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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