|
John Douglas Pringle Award
John Douglas Pringle Award or British Prize for Journalism is offered jointly by the British High Commission and the Australian National Press Club. It is named after a distinguished journalist, John Douglas Pringle. Winners * 1999: Sally Sara * 2000: Claire Miller * 2001: * 2002: Melissa Sweet * 2003: Sacha Payne * 2004: Shane Wright Shane Wright may refer to: * Shane Wright (ice hockey), ice hockey player * Shane Wright (rugby league), rugby league footballer {{hndis, Wright, Shane ... * 2005: Not offered. References {{Reflist External links Website Australian journalism awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British High Commission
A British High Commission is a British diplomatic mission, equivalent to an embassy, found in countries that are members of the Commonwealth of Nations. Their general purpose is to provide diplomatic relationships as well as travel information, passports, dual-citizenship information, and other services between Commonwealth states. Where some Commonwealth countries are not represented in another Commonwealth country, the British High Commission can assist such Commonwealth countries' citizens in some cases. Some countries that were outside the Commonwealth, but have now returned to their membership of the Commonwealth, have replaced their embassies and ambassadors with High Commissions and High Commissioners. List of British High Commissions and British High Commissioners * '' British High Commission Abuja, Nigeria'' – Catriona Laing (since November 2018) * '' British High Commission Accra, Ghana'' – Iain Walker (since August 2017) * '' British High Commission Apia, Samo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Press Club (Australia)
The National Press Club is an association of primarily news journalists, but also includes academics, business people and members of the public service, and is based in Canberra, Australia. History The National Press Club was founded in 1963 as the National Press Luncheon Club by a few journalists with the backing of the Canberra Press Gallery. The founding president was Tony Eggleton. It was renamed the National Press Club in 1968, and established official premises in 1976. Since its inception, the club's reputation has steadily grown, attracting parliamentarians, scientists, diplomats, sporting personalities and other prominent figures to address its weekly luncheons. Guests have included heads of government and ministers of Australia and other countries, including Richard Nixon, Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi. Activities and format , the National Press Club address is a weekly formal speech of approximately one hour, which includes time for questions from members of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Douglas Pringle
John Martin Douglas Pringle, usually known as John Douglas Pringle (28 June 1912 – 4 December 1999) was a Scotland, Scottish-born journalist and author who moved in 1952 to Australia, where he became a prominent newspaper editor and social commentator. Early life in the United Kingdom Pringle was born in the town of Hawick, Roxburghshire, not far from the Anglo-Scottish border, border with England. His father had inherited a part-ownership of Robert Pringle and Sons, a family knitwear business. Between the ages of 14 and 19, Pringle was educated in England at Shrewsbury School, where he received a classical education consisting almost entirely of classes in Latin and Greek. It taught, he said, "the accurate use of words and the ability to concentrate on difficult subjects [but] it did not stimulate our creative powers (if any) or even our curiosity". He went up to Lincoln College, Oxford, where he took a British undergraduate degree classification#First-class honours, First in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Sara
Sally Jane Sara Order of Australia, AM, (born 2 March 1971 in Port Pirie, South Australia) is an Australian journalist and TV presenter. Career Sara's career began with Outback Radio (2WEB) in Bourke, New South Wales. Sara then joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the late 1990s with stints at Renmark, South Australia, Renmark, Adelaide, Melbourne and Canberra. Sara was the ABC's Africa Correspondent from 2000 to 2005, the first woman to hold this post. She has also reported from Jakarta, the Middle East and London during the Timeline of the 2005 London bombings, 2005 London Bombings. In February 2006, Sara became the presenter of the ABC's Landline (TV series), ''Landline''. In September 2007, Sara was awarded the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, that recognises women in Journalism, which entails study overseas. In November 2008 she took up the post as the ABC's South Asia Correspondent based in New Delhi, India. From February to December 2011, Sara was based in Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter enshrined in legislation, the ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983''. ABC Commercial, a profit-making division of the corporation, also helps to generate funding for content provision. The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an act of federal parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A-class radio stations. The ABC was given statutory powers that reinforced its independence from the government and enhanced its news-gathering role. Modelled after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which is funded by a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Miller
''Spy School'' (also known as ''Doubting Thomas'') is a 2008 American comedy-drama film, released outside the United States as ''Doubting Thomas'' or ''Lies and Spies''. Although a 2008 release, the movie was actually filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the summer of 2005. The film stars Forrest Landis, and AnnaSophia Robb AnnaSophia Robb (born December 8, 1993) is an American actress, model, and singer. She began as a child actress on television, making her leading debut as the titular role in '' Samantha: An American Girl Holiday'' (2004). She made her feature ... as the lead characters. The movie focuses on the adventures of Thomas Miller, in his efforts to save the President's daughter from being kidnapped. Plot A twelve-year-old boy named Thomas Miller is the school troublemaker. He gets into fights, causes distractions in class, and tells lies. Thomas is seen at the beginning of the movie fighting another student until Principal Hampton intervenes. He is next seen i ... [...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] |
Melissa Sweet
Melissa Sweet is an Australian journalist and nonfiction writer. Formerly employed by ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''The Bulletin'' magazine, and Australian Associated Press, she specializes in writing about human health and medicine. Early life and career Sweet grew up in central Queensland. She enrolled in the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT, now Curtin University of Technology) in Perth and earned a bachelor's degree with in journalism and agriculture. Sweet was awarded the WAIT Academic Staff Association Medal as top graduating student in 1984. Starting in 1987, Sweet was a medical writer for the Australian Associated Press for six years. Then she became the senior account manager in healthcare for Hill and Knowlton, a public relations firm, from 1993 to 1994. In 1994, she returned to journalism, working as a medical writer for the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' and a columnist for ''Good Weekend'' magazine until 1998. Then '' The Bulletin'' magazine hired h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacha Payne
Sasha is a unisex name which originated in Eastern and Southern European countries as the shortened version of Alexander and Alexandra. It is also used as a surname, although very rarely. Alternative spellings include: ( – Russian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian), ( – Bulgarian), ( – Macedonian), (Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Latvian, Lithuanian), (Polish), (Romanian), (French), (German), (Italian), (Danish and Swedish) and ( – Hebrew). Usage This name is especially common in Europe, where it is used by both females and males as a diminutive of Alexandra and Alexander, respectively. Despite its popularity in informal usage, the name is rarely recorded on birth certificates in countries such as the Czech Republic, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine, as it is considered a diminutive, not a formal name. Exceptions are Croatia, Germany, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Switzerland. In French-speaking regions (Belgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Wright (rugby)
Shane Wright (born 13 March 1996) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a forward for the Salford Red Devils in the Super League. Background Wright was born in Perth, Western Australia. He played his junior rugby league for the Proserpine Whitsunday Brahmans before being signed by the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles at the age of 14. Wright then moved to the Gold Coast, Queensland, attending Palm Beach Currumbin State High School and playing junior rugby league for the Burleigh Bears before being signed by the Gold Coast Titans. Playing career Early career In 2015 and 2016, Wright played for the Gold Coast Titans' NYC team. In November 2016, he signed a two-year contract with the North Queensland Cowboys starting in 2017. 2017 In round 24 of the 2017 NRL season, Wright made his NRL debut for the North Queensland Cowboys against the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. 2018 On April 17, Wright re-signed with the North Queensland club until the end of the 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> National Press Club (Australia)")
