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Edward S. Cunningham
Sir Edward Sheldon Cunningham (21 July 1859 – 28 April 1957) was the editor of the Melbourne ''Argus'' from 1906 to 1928. Biography Cunningham was born at De Witt Street, Battery Point, Tasmania, the younger son of Benjamin Marriott Cunningham (c. 1830–1896) and his wife Jane Eccles Cunningham, née Neilson, who married in 1855. The family shortly moved to Newcastle, New South Wales, then settled in Bendigo, Victoria, where, following a private school education supplemented by instruction from his intelligent and cultured mother, he began working as a copy boy for the '' Bendigo Advertiser''. After three years he returned to Hobart, where he worked as proofreader for the ''Mercury'' until he had become proficient at shorthand, when he was taken on as a reporter. He joined ''The Age'' as a political reporter in 1879. One of his earliest "scoops" was to witness the arrival of the wounded and recently captured Ned Kelly at the North Melbourne station when other reporters had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Sheldon Cunningham (smoothed)
Sir Edward Sheldon Cunningham (21 July 1859 – 28 April 1957) was the editor of the Melbourne ''Argus'' from 1906 to 1928. Biography Cunningham was born at De Witt Street, Battery Point, Tasmania, the younger son of Benjamin Marriott Cunningham (c. 1830–1896) and his wife Jane Eccles Cunningham, née Neilson, who married in 1855. The family shortly moved to Newcastle, New South Wales, then settled in Bendigo, Victoria, where, following a private school education supplemented by instruction from his intelligent and cultured mother, he began working as a copy boy for the '' Bendigo Advertiser''. After three years he returned to Hobart, where he worked as proofreader for the ''Mercury'' until he had become proficient at shorthand, when he was taken on as a reporter. He joined ''The Age'' as a political reporter in 1879. One of his earliest "scoops" was to witness the arrival of the wounded and recently captured Ned Kelly at the North Melbourne station when other reporters had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Melbourne
North Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne local government area. North Melbourne recorded a population of 14,953 at the 2021 census. North Melbourne is bounded by the CityLink freeway to the west, Victoria Street to the south, O'Connell and Peel Streets to the east and Flemington Road to the north. Since July 2008 its local government area has been the City of Melbourne, when it took over the administration of parts of Kensington and North Melbourne that were previously under the City of Moonee Valley, resulting in an increase of approximately 4760 residents and almost 3000 workers (2006 Census). Formerly known as Hotham, it was essentially a working class area, with some middle class pockets, and was one of the first towns in Victoria to be granted Municipal status. Today it continues to undergo gentrification, noted for its Victorian architecture, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1859 Births
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Melbourne Press Club
The Melbourne Press Club, commonly referred to as MPC, is a not-for-profit association of journalists in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The Melbourne Press Club provides awards in the State of Victoria for outstanding journalism, presenting the annual Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian journalism. MPC co-hosts the annual Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, named after a celebrated Australian journalist. MPC also presents the annual Grant Hattam Award, in honour of the leading media lawyer who died suddenly in 1998 from cancer. It also hosts The Australian Media Hall of Fame which honours "journalists, editors, publishers, broadcasters, producers, artists, photographers or others who have had a significant impact by working in the media". melbournepressclub.com. Retrieved 30 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Rule
Andrew Rule (born 8 April 1957) is an Australian journalist who specialises in crime. Early life Andrew Rule was born in country Victoria in 1957, later attending high school in Sale. He dropped out of journalism at RMIT before completing an arts degree at Monash University. Career Rule started aged 17 as a reporter for '' The Gippsland Times and Maffra Spectator.'' He subsequently worked for ''The Age'', ''The Sun News-Pictorial'', '' The Herald'', ''Sunday Age'', ''Herald Sun'', and at radio station 3AW. The Murders of Margaret and Seana Tapp was a cold case that Rule has worked to bring renewed attention to in articles for both ''The Age'' and ''Herald Sun''. Rule wrote an authorised biography of Australian media proprietor and billionaire Kerry Stokes to counter bad press from an unauthorised work by Margaret Simons that included testimony from an abandoned family. In 2021, Rule was involved in a controversy where he falsely accused the late former Labor Premier Nevill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Glasgow
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Queensland Times
''The Queensland Times'' is an online newspaper serving Ipswich, Queensland, Ipswich and surrounds in Queensland, Australia. The newspaper is owned by News Corp Australia. The circulation of ''The Queensland Times'' is 10,804 Monday to Friday and 14,153 on Saturday. ''The Queensland Times'' is circulated to the Ipswich city area (all residential suburbs including the new the suburbs Springfield, Springfield Lakes and Brookwater) and the Ipswich rural area including Harrisville, Queensland, Harrisville, Rosewood, Queensland, Rosewood, Laidley, Queensland, Laidley, Forest Hill, Queensland, Forest Hill, Lowood, Queensland, Lowood, Boonah, Queensland, Boonah, Aratula, Queensland, Aratula, Gatton, Queensland, Gatton, Esk, Queensland, Esk and Toogoolawah, Queensland, Toogoolawah. ''The Queensland Times'' website is part of the APN Regional News Network. History ''The Queensland Times'' is the oldest surviving provincial paper in Queensland. Founded on 4 July 1859 as the ''Ipswich H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mercury (Hobart)
''The'' ''Mercury'' is a daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd (DBL), a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. The weekend issues of the paper are called ''Mercury on Saturday '' and ''Sunday Tasmanian''. The current editor of ''The'' ''Mercury'' is Craig Warhurst. History The newspaper was started on 5 July 1854 by George Auber Jones and John Davies. Two months subsequently (13 September 1854) John Davies became the sole owner. It was then published twice weekly and known as the ''Hobarton Mercury''. It rapidly expanded, absorbing its rivals, and became a daily newspaper in 1858 under the lengthy title ''The Hobart Town Daily Mercury''. In 1860 the masthead was reduced to ''The Mercury'' and in 2006 it was further shortened to simply ''Mercury''. With the imminent demise of the ( Launceston) ''Daily Telegraph'', ''The Mercury'', from March 1928, used the opportunity to increase their penetration th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Watterston
David Watterston (2 January 1845 – 23 July 1931) was an Australian journalist and newspaper editor; he was editor of ''The Australasian'' from 1885 to 1903 and of '' The Argus'' 1903 to 1906. Watterston was born in Balgone Barns, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, youngest son of James Watterston and his wife Catherine ''née'' Broadwood. The family, after spending a year in Gottland, in the Baltic Sea, went to Australia, arriving in April 1853. After acting as clerk in an attorney's office in Melbourne, Watterston moved to Queensland in May 1860, and in October of the same year, commenced his connection with the press. He learned reporting on the ''Ipswich Herald'' (afterwards the ''Queensland Times'') and then moved to Brisbane in 1865, to undertake parliamentary reporting. Watterston spent several years in the gallery for ''The Brisbane Courier'' and next on the ''Guardian'', from which paper, in June 1869, he obtained promotion to the parliamentary staff of '' The Argus'', Melbour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spencer Street, Melbourne
Spencer Street is a major street and thoroughfare in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria. The street was gazetted in 1837 as the westernmost boundary of the Hoddle Grid. Spencer Street is named for John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer, former Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Location Running roughly north–south, Spencer Street forms the western edge of the original Hoddle Grid. To the north Spencer Street becomes Dynon Road, whilst to the south it becomes Clarendon Street after crossing the Spencer Street Bridge over the Yarra River. Spencer Street denotes the boundary between Melbourne and Docklands to the west, West Melbourne in the north and Southbank in the south, near Batman Park. History Spencer Street was the site of the first permanent buildings in the settlement now called Melbourne. The home of John Batman was built on nearby Batman's Hill where he lived until his death and the early camps of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Kelly
Edward Kelly (December 1854 – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police. Kelly was born in the then- British colony of Victoria as the third of eight children to Irish parents. His father, a transported convict, died shortly after serving a six-month prison sentence, leaving Kelly, then aged 12, as the eldest male of the household. The Kellys were a poor selector family who saw themselves as downtrodden by the Squattocracy and as victims of persecution by the Victoria Police. While a teenager, Kelly was arrested for associating with bushranger Harry Power and served two prison terms for a variety of offences, the longest stretch being from 1871 to 1874 on a conviction of receiving a stolen horse. He later joined the " Greta Mob", a group of bush larrikins known for stock theft. A violent confro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister newspaper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.321 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first edition appeared on 17 October 1854. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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