Bernard Zuel is an Australian

music journalist Music journalism (or music criticism) is media criticism and reporting about music topics, including popular music, classical music, and traditional music. Journalists began writing about music in the eighteenth century, providing commentary on w ...

. Zuel wrote for

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newspapers ''

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'' and ''

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'' since 1992. He became their senior music writer and reviewer. Zuel is a judge of the

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award. At the end of June 2017 he left Fairfax Media to became a freelance journalist and also taught music journalism.

Early life and education

Bernard Zuel was born in

Rose-Hill Beau Bassin-Rose Hill (or Beau-Bassin Rose-Hill; french: Villes sœurs; ) is a town in Mauritius, located in the Plaines Wilhems District. It is administered by the Municipal Council of Beau Bassin-Rose Hill and has a population of 147,066 habit ...

, Mauritius.. In the late 1960s, with his family, father Cyril, mother Irlande and two younger siblings, he relocated to Australia and settled in Sydney. In the podcast ''Penmanship'' (2016), Zuel told Andrew McMillen how he wrote his first review when he was 20-years-old on R.E.M.'s ''

Fables of the Reconstruction ''Fables of the Reconstruction'', also known as ''Reconstruction of the Fables'', is the third studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on I.R.S. Records on June 10, 1985. The Joe Boyd-produced album was the first recorde ...

'' (1985), which he submitted to street press. He was surprised to find it was published and worked for street press before he got a job as a general news reporter at '' The Penrith Press''. He worked there for a few years before starting at ''

'' in 1992, where he became the senior music writer and reviewer. Zuel regularly talks music on ABC local radio and appears on ''The Right Note''. After 25 years at ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', he left in June 2017 to become a freelance journalist at his website and to teach

music journalism Music journalism (or music criticism) is media criticism and reporting about music topics, including popular music, classical music, and traditional music. Journalists began writing about music in the eighteenth century, providing commentary on w ...

References

External links

* * * https://2ser.com/interview-bernard-zuel-looks-back-career-fairfax-media/ * https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/kate-elvis-pj-and-me-25-years-and-more-of-a-love-affair-with-music-20170628-gwzz9m.html * https://www.smh.com.au/by/bernard-zuel-hvevg {{DEFAULTSORT:Zuel, Bernard 1965 births Living people Australian music journalists Australian journalists Australian people of Mauritian descent The Sydney Morning Herald people