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60 Minutes (Australian TV Program)
''60 Minutes'' is an Australian version of the American news magazine television show of the same title, airing on the Nine Network since 1979 on Sunday nights. A New Zealand version uses segments of the show. The program is one of five inducted into Australia's television Logie Hall of Fame. History The program was founded by American television producer Gerald Stone, who was appointed its inaugural executive producer in 1979 by media tycoon Kerry Packer. Stone devised it to be an Australian version of CBS's American ''60 Minutes'' program and it featured upon its inauguration well known reporters George Negus, Ray Martin, Ian Leslie. Its prominent early programs included a 1981 interview Negus conducted with UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, during which the prime minister aggressively countered his questions. Negus asked Thatcher why people described her as ''pig-headed'' and the Prime Minister demanded he tell her who, when and where such comments were made. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News Magazine
A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published magazine, radio, or television program, usually published weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories in greater depth than newspapers or newscasts do, and aim to give the consumer an understanding of the important events beyond the basic facts. Broadcast news magazines Radio news magazines are similar to television news magazines. Unlike radio newscasts, which are typically about five minutes in length, radio news magazines can run from 30 minutes to three hours or more. Television news magazines provide a similar service to print news magazines, but their stories are presented as short television documentaries rather than written articles; in contrast to a daily newscast, news magazines allow more in-depth coverage of specific topics, including Current affairs (news format), current affairs, investigative journalism (including hidden camera investigations), major interviews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Wendt
Jana Bohumila Wendt ( ; born 9 May 1956) is an Australian Gold Logie award-winning television journalist, reporter and writer. Early life Wendt was born in Melbourne to Czech parents who emigrated to Australia in 1949, as political refugees on account of her father's work as a journalist for a Czech dissident newspaper. Wendt attended Presentation College, Windsor before graduating at the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts (French, Honours) in 1979. Career Starting as a researcher for the ABC, Wendt's television career began as a journalist for ATV-10 evening news, before sharing presenting duties with David Johnston. In 1982, Wendt then went on to be one of the first reporters on the Australian Nine Network's version of ''60 Minutes'', as well as filing stories for the American CBS ''60 Minutes''. ''60 Minutes'' producer Gerald Stone described her as "more like a Hollywood film star than anyone else in Australian TV". Wendt hosted '' A Current Affair'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Harvey
Peter Michael St Clair Harvey (16 September 19442 March 2013) was an Australian journalist and broadcaster. Harvey was a long-serving correspondent and contributor with the Nine Network from 1975 to 2013. Career Harvey studied his journalism cadetship with the Sydney newspaper ''The Daily Telegraph'' and won a Walkley Award in 1964. He worked at radio stations 2UE and 2GB before moving to London and working for BBC Radio. He then went on to ''The Guardian'' (where he received the British Reporter of the Year Award for a series of articles about the sale of confidential information) and the American ''Newsweek'' magazine as a reporter in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Harvey changed to television when he joined the Nine Network in 1975 and served as its news director in the network's Canberra bureau for many years. One of his first major stories was the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in November 1975. It was from this work, and his regular political reporting on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Barry
Paul James Barry (born 24 February 1952) is an English-born, Australia-based journalist, newsreader and television presenter, known to Australian and British audiences for his television reports and his semi-serious comments on current news, which concern various topics, including politics (mostly debunking conservatives lies), sports, entertainment, music, cinema and television. He has won many awards for his investigative reporting and he has previously worked for the BBC on numerous programs, before emigrating to Australia. Early life Barry was raised in Underriver and attended Solefield School and Sevenoaks School. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford. At Exeter College, Oxford, he captained the university golf team. Career Early career in London Barry started his journalistic career in London as an economics correspondent for the weekly magazine '' Investors Chronicle''. In 1978, he joined the BBC as a reporter for ''The Money ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Fanning
Ellen Mary Fanning (born 8 September 1967) is an Australian journalist. Fanning currently hosts the Drive program on ABC Radio Brisbane. She was previously host of '' The Drum'' on ABC TV and ABC News Channel and the Nine Network's ''Sunday'' television program. Career Fanning started a career in commercial radio in 1988, after graduating with a communications degree from the Queensland University of Technology."Chris Beck talks to Ellen Fanning", ''The Age'', Green Guide, 9 November 2006scan/ref> She later joined the ABC, presenting the ABC Radio National national current affairs program '' PM'' for two years, '' AM'' and occasionally '' The 7.30 Report'' on ABC TV. After a stint producing the ABC's late-night current affairs program, ''Lateline'', she was appointed one of the North America correspondents for the ABC network in 1997, based in Washington, D.C. In 2000, Fanning moved to the Nine Network, working first as a reporter with ''60 Minutes'', then as a reporter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey Curro
Tracey Ilana Curro (born 27 November 1963) is an Australian journalist. Curro has previously been a news presenter on GMV-6, QTQ-9 and ATV-10 and a reporter on the Seven Network's ''Beyond 2000'', a science-technology show, and correspondent on ''60 Minutes (Australian TV program), 60 Minutes''. Career Curro was born and grew up in Ingham, Queensland; her father, Phillip, was a descendant of first-generation immigrants from Sicily. She is a graduate of the Queensland University of Technology (Bachelor of Business – Communications) and the Institute of Strategic Leadership, New Zealand. She was embroiled in a court case when she broke her contract with the producers of ''Beyond 2000'' to join ''60 Minutes'': ''Curro v Beyond Productions Pty Ltd'' (1993) 30 NSWLR 337, decided 7 May 1993. She can occasionally be heard filling in for regular presenters on 774 ABC Melbourne radio, notably filling in for a two-week period in 2005 following the departure of Virginia Trioli, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Carleton
Richard George Carleton (11 July 19437 May 2006) was a multiple Logie Award–winning Australian television journalist. Education Carleton was born in Bowral, New South Wales. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and graduated from the University of New South Wales. He was the third of four children – Joffre, Graeme, Richard and Joanne. Television/journalism career ABC/BBC In the 1960s, he was a reporter on ''This Day Tonight'' as well as being the presenter of ''State of the Nation'', both on the ABC. He continued these roles until he left for a role on 2GB Radio in 1976, followed by what began as a lifelong love of travelling and researching overseas, producing films in Indonesia (including being the only journalist to be allowed to visit the newly "integrated" East Timor) and the Middle East. Carleton joined the BBC in London in 1977 for the ''Tonight'' program, before returning to Australia in 1979. Carleton is probably most famously known for a comment made to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Munro
Michael Kenneth Munro, (born 12 April 1953), is an Australian journalist and television presenter. Early life Munro cites a tough childhood—with an abusive and alcoholic mother—as one of the main reasons behind his motivation to succeed. Munro attended Sacred Heart Primary School in Mosman, New South Wales, and Marist Catholic College North Shore in North Sydney. He began his career at 17 as a copyboy on ''The Daily Mirror'' in 1971. He stayed in newspapers for 7 years, before trying television and not liking it. So he returned to newspapers when Rupert Murdoch sent him to New York to work in the NewsCorp bureau writing for newspapers in Great Britain and Australia. Television career In 1982, he returned to Sydney and television, where he started as a senior reporter in the Channel 10 newsroom. In 1984, he joined the Nine Network and Mike Willesee on the ''Willesee'' current affairs program. Two years later he replaced George Negus as the fifth male reporter on ''60 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Byrne
Jennifer Victoria Byrne (born 5 March 1955) is an Australian journalist, television presenter and former book publisher. She hosted the monthly ABC television program ''The Book Club'', originally titled ''First Tuesday Book Club''. Early life Byrne was born in Melbourne and attended St Margaret's School, Melbourne, St Margaret's School as a boarding student. Career Byrne began her career in journalism at age 16, as a cadet at Melbourne's ''The Age'' newspaper. At age 23, she became the paper's San Francisco correspondent and later a feature writer. Byrne's television work began as a researcher for ''This Day Tonight's'' Melbourne unit and later as a reporter for ''Nationwide''. After returning to print media as assistant-editor of ''The Age'' "Monthly Review", she moved back to television in 1982, on Nine Network's ''Sunday (Australian TV program), Sunday'' program. On ''Sunday,'' in 1985, she won a Logie Awards, Logie for her story on Paul Keating's tax summit. From 1986 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff McMullen
Jeffrey John McMullen is an Australian journalist and author and television and radio presenter. He was a foreign correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for almost two decades (1966–1984), and later joined the Australian version of ''60 Minutes'' (1985–2000). He has written numerous articles and several books, and is known for championing the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Early life and education McMullen graduated from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Arts. Media career Career at the ABC McMullen was a foreign correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for almost two decades (1966–1984), international reporter for the investigative television program ''Four Corners'' and later joined the Australian version of ''60 Minutes'' (1985–2000). In 2007, he hosted a 33-part discussion series on ABC1 titled '' Difference of Opinion''. He also chaired many Indigenous forums on NITV. In 2014, McMullen appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Baillieu
Katharine Jean Baillieu (born 17 January 1946) is an Australian former journalist. Early career Baillieu worked as a journalist and later as a personal assistant to Kerry Packer. In 1977, Baillieu was awarded the Douglas Wilkie Medal by the Anti-Football League. In an interview with ''The Australian'' in February 2009, Baillieu revealed that she almost became a reporter for ''60 Minutes'' and said that after she resigned, her role as an investigative journalist into asbestos was "ever so delicately erased... they airbrushed me out". Public controversies Baillieu has been involved in public controversies against development in and around Portsea. She has been described in the press as the "general for the old money push" in "a struggle of old and new money" about development in the area. However, Baillieu has stated: "This is a neighbourly, peaceful place. Portsea, Victoria, Portsea conjures up an image. But we are not exclusive. Anyone can come here." Lindsay Fox Baillieu wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. How the numbers got to their Gupta form is open to considerable debate. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
