Peter Bowers (1930 – 28 June 2010) was an Australian
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 journalis ...
. Bowers was born in
Taree
Taree is a town on the Mid North Coast, New South Wales, Australia. Taree and nearby Cundletown were settled in 1831 by William Wynter. Since then Taree has grown to a population of 26,381, and is the centre of a significant agricultural distr ...
,
New South Wales
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. He was offered a cadetship by
Frank Packer in 1948, and in 1959 joined ''
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper ...
''. He remained with the paper until 1987, working for periods as a political correspondent in the
Canberra Press Gallery
The Canberra Press Gallery, officially called the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery, is the name given to the approximately 180 journalists and their support staff, including producers, editors and camera crews, who report the workings of the A ...
, as a news editor, as a national affairs columnist, and as a sports reporter. He was awarded a
Gold Walkley Award in 1992 for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism in the Senior Journalism Section. Bowers died of
Alzheimer's disease at a nursing home in
Narrabundah in 2010.
'Outstanding' journalist Peter Bowers dies of Alzheimer's
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References
1930 births
2010 deaths
Australian journalists
Australian reporters and correspondents
People from Taree
The Sydney Morning Herald people
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