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Graham Perkin Australian Journalist Of The Year Award
The Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, often known simply as the Graham Perkin Award, is one of Australia's pre-eminent prizes for journalism. It was established and named in honour of Graham Perkin, who was editor of ''The Age'' from 1966 until his death in 1975. Administered by the Melbourne Press Club, the award carries a prize of $20,000. Winners *1976 – Denis Butler ('' The Newcastle Morning Herald'') *1977 – Robert Gottliebsen (''The Australian Financial Review'') *1978 – Lenore Nicklin (''The Sydney Morning Herald'') *1979 – Peter Rodgers (''The Sydney Morning Herald'') *1980 – Ron Saw ('' The Bulletin'') *1981 – Norman Aisbett and David Tanner (''The West Australian'') *1982 – Peter Smark (''The Age'') *1983 – Evan Whitton (''The Sydney Morning Herald'') *1984 – Creighton Burns (''The Age'') *1985 – Jack Waterford (''The Canberra Times'') *1986 – Bruce Dover and Cameron Forbes ('' The Herald'', Melbourne and ''The Age'') *1987 â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Perkin
Edwin Graham Perkin (16 December 1929 Р16 October 1975) was an Australian journalist and newspaper editor. Early life Perkin was born at Hopetoun, Victoria, elder son of Herbert Edwin Perkin, baker, and his wife Iris Lily, n̩e Graham, both Victorian born. Graham grew up at Warracknabeal and was educated at the local high school. In 1948 he began to study law at the University of Melbourne, but abandoned his course in the following year when he obtained a cadetship with ''The Age''. At the Methodist Church, St Kilda, on 6 September 1952 he married Peggy Lorraine Corrie. Career As a young reporter, Perkin rapidly acquired a reputation for enthusiasm and restless energy. In 1955 he won a Kemsley scholarship in journalism which took him to London. Returning to Australia as a feature writer, he shared the Walkley Award for journalism in 1959 for an article on pioneering heart surgery. His rise in the newspaper hierarchy was rapid: he became deputy news editor in 1959, news ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Carlyon
Leslie Allen Carlyon (10 June 1942 – 4 March 2019) was an Australian writer and newspaper editor. Early life Carlyon began his career in journalism with ''The Herald and Weekly Times'' as a cadet on the ''Sun News-Pictorial'' (now the ''Herald Sun'') in 1960. In 1963, he moved to ''The Age'' working successively as leader writer, finance editor, news editor, assistant editor and, in 1975 aged 33, editor, following the sudden death of the previous editor, Graham Perkin. Carlyon had to resign for health reasons in 1976 after just one year in the position. From 1977 to 1982, he was a visiting lecturer in journalism at RMIT University, Melbourne. During this time, he continued writing for newspapers across Australia with a particular focus on horse racing. In 1984, Carlyon returned to an executive role in journalism with his first employer, the ''Herald and Weekly Times'', where he was promoted to editor-in-chief. After resigning in 1986, Carlyon again continued as a freelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanne McCarthy (journalist)
Joanne Maree Therese McCarthy is an Australian investigative journalist. Working for ''The Newcastle Herald'', McCarthy wrote more than 1,000 articles on Catholic Church child sex abuse cases in the Hunter region. McCarthy's journalism was a decisive factor in Julia Gillard's decision to announce the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Life and career The oldest of 11 children, McCarthy grew up in a Catholic family and attended Catholic and public schools. Following a brief period of working as a nurse at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, she began her journalism career with a cadetship at the ''Gosford Star'' in 1980 before moving to the ''Central Coast Express Advocate''. In 2002, she joined ''The Newcastle Herald''. ''The Newcastle Herald'' journalist Jeff Corbett had been reporting on the Catholic Church scandals around Father Vincent Ryan and Father Jim Fletcher. Following Ryan's conviction and sentencing in 1996, Corbett wrote that "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Herald Sun
The ''Herald Sun'' is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Herald Sun'' primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and New South Wales South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In 2017, the paper had a daily circulation of 350,000 from Monday to Friday. The ''Herald Sun'' newspaper is the product of a merger in 1990 of two newspapers owned by The Herald and Weekly Times Limited: the morning tabloid paper ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' and the afternoon broadsheet paper '' The Herald''. It was first publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Mitchell (radio Presenter)
Neil Mitchell AO is an Australian radio presenter on Melbourne AM talk-back station 3AW. Early career The son of a school teacher, Mitchell entered journalism aged 17, straight after completing high school.A matter of opinion , The Weekly Review 13 June 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2013 He has had involvement in newspapers, radio and television. Newspaper and magazine journalist He was one of the youngest ever editors of a major Australian metropolitan newspaper, '' The Herald'', holding that position from 1985 to 1987. Mitchell was also a reporter, columnist and news executive at '' |
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
''The Daily Telegraph'', also nicknamed ''The Tele'', is an Australian tabloid newspaper published by Nationwide News Pty Limited, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. It is published Monday through Saturday and is available throughout Sydney, across most of regional and remote New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. A 2013 poll conducted by Essential Research found that the ''Telegraph'' was Australia's least-trusted major newspaper, with 49% of respondents citing "a lot of" or "some" trust in the paper. Amongst those ranked by Nielsen, the ''Telegraph'' website is the sixth most popular Australian news website with a unique monthly audience of 2,841,381 readers. History ''The Daily Telegraph'' was founded in 1879, by John Mooyart Lynch, a former printer, editor and journalist who had once worked on the ''Melbourne Daily Telegraph''. Lynch had failed in an attempt to become a politician and was lookin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Network
The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. From 2017 to 2021, the network's slogan has been "We Are the One". Since 2021, the network has changed its slogan back to the iconic Golden Era slogan "Still the One". As of 2022, the Nine Network is the second-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network, and ahead of the ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS. History Origins The Nine Network's first broadcasting station was launched in Sydney, New South Wales, as TCN-9 on 16 September 1956 by ''The Daily Telegraph'' owner Frank Packer. John Godson introduced the station and former advertising executive Bruce Gyngell presented the first programme, ''This Is Television'' (so becoming the first person to appear on Australian television). Later that year, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Oakes
Laurie Oakes (born 14 August 1943 in Newcastle, New South Wales) is an Australian retired journalist. He worked in the Canberra Press Gallery from 1969 to 2017, covering the Parliament of Australia and federal elections for print, radio, and television. Early career Oakes was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, the son of Wes and Hazel Oakes. His father worked for BHP as an accountant. When Oakes was six years old, his father was transferred to Cockatoo Island, a small island off the coast of Derby, Western Australia, where there was an iron ore mine. He began his schooling at a one-teacher school with only 20–30 children. Oakes later moved back to New South Wales and attended Lithgow High School. He graduated in 1964 from the University of Sydney while working part-time with the Sydney ''Daily Mirror''. At the age of 25 he was the Melbourne ''Suns Canberra Bureau Chief and while working for that paper he began providing political commentaries for the TV program, '' Willes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Silvester (writer)
John Silvester is an Australian journalist and crime writer. He has written for major Melbourne based newspapers such as ''The Age'', the ''Sunday Herald Sun'' and others. Silvester has also co-written a number of bestselling books with Andrew Rule, based on crime in Melbourne. Some of their works formed the basis of the hit Australian TV series Underbelly (TV series), ''Underbelly''. He also appears weekly on 3AW's breakfast program as "Sly of the Underworld". Career Silvester received a Bachelor of Arts in politics and legal studies at La Trobe University in 1978, according to an article in the university's Alumni newsletter, ''Agora'', which also stated that his father, Fred Silvester, was a former Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner, and head of the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence. In 2007, Silvester won the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year for his work covering crime and corruption. According to his profile at The Age: John Silvester has be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Gordon (Australian Journalist)
Michael Gordon (14 August 1955 – 3 February 2018) was an Australian journalist. Gordon was the son of the newspaper journalist and editor Harry Gordon. Early life and education Born in 1955 in Melbourne, Australia, he completed his part-time studies in degree in Commerce at Melbourne University. Career Gordon joined ''The Age'' in 1973 at the age of 17 as a cadet journalist and spent most of his career with the newspaper in Melbourne, reporting on areas such as politics, police, industrial relations and sport. He retired from ''The Age'' in June 2017 at the rank of national political editor, the position he held since 2013, after working for the newspaper for 37 years. Gordon also worked for a time as a New York correspondent for '' The Herald'' in the late 1980s and later as national political editor for ''The Australian'' from 1994 to 1998. Gordon won a Walkley Award in 2017 for ''Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism 2017''. Gordon was also the recipient of the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Spooner
John Spooner B.Juris, LLB ( Monash) (born 1946) is an Australian journalist and illustrator who regularly contributed to ''The Age'' newspaper. John Spooner was born in Melbourne in 1946. He practised as a lawyer for three years before he commenced drawing for ''The Age'' in 1974, finally leaving the law altogether in 1977 to draw full-time for the newspaper. Spooner has received various awards for excellence in journalism. Between 1985 and 1986 Spooner was awarded five Stanley Awards, including the Black and White Artist of the Year gold Stanley Award. In 1994 Spooner was awarded two Walkley Awards for Best Illustration and Best Cartoon. Spooner's works are represented in the Collections of The National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Victorian State Library, The Melbourne Cricket Club Museum, public and private collections throughout Australia and internationally. His publications include the book ''A Spooner in the ... [...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] |
