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Brisbane Telegraph
''The Telegraph'' was an evening newspaper published in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was first published on 1 October 1872 and its final edition appeared on 5 February 1988. In its day it was recognised as one of the best news pictorial newspapers in the country.Daily Sun, Saturday, 6 February 1988 Its Pink Sports edition (printed distinctively on pink newsprint and sold on Brisbane streets from about 6 pm on Saturdays) was a particularly excellent production produced under tight deadlines. It included results and pictures of Brisbane's Saturday afternoon sports including the results of the last horse race of the day. History In 1871 a group of local businessmen, Robert Armour, John Killeen Handy ( M.L.A. for Brisbane), John Warde, John Burns, J. D. Heale and J. K. Buchanan formed the Telegraph Newspaper Co. Ltd. The editor was Theophilus Parsons Pugh, a former editor of the ''Brisbane Courier'' and founder of ''Pugh's Almanac''.Queensland Press Limited history report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspaper
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, Obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, Newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often Metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published Printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also Electronic publishing, published on webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Dictionary Of Biography
The ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history. Initially published by Melbourne University Press in a series of twelve hard-copy volumes between 1966 and 2005, the dictionary has been published online since 2006 by the National Centre of Biography (NCB) at ANU, which has also published ''Obituaries Australia'' (OA) since 2010. History The ADB project began operating in 1957, although preparation work had been started in about 1954 at the Australian National University. An index was created that would be the basis of the ADB. Pat Wardle was involved in the work and, in time, she herself was included in the ADB. Staff are located at the National Centre of Biography in the History Department of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Since i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pendil Arthur Rayner
Pendil was a racehorse trained by Fred Winter. In 2012 Robin Oakley included him in his book ''Britain and Ireland's Top 100 Racehorses of All Time''. Pendil was a dual King George VI Chase winner at Kempton Park and was ridden on both occasions by Richard Pitman in 1972 and 1973. One of Pendil's greatest performances was when carrying top weight of 12'7 to victory in the Massey Ferguson Gold Cup Handicap Chase at Cheltenham in December 1973 gaining revenge on The Dikler, who had pipped him on the line nine months earlier in the Cheltenham Gold Cup The Cheltenham Gold Cup is a Grade 1 National Hunt horse race run on the New Course at Cheltenham Racecourse in England, over a distance of about 3 miles 2½ furlon .... References Further reading * * * * Steeplechase racehorses 1965 racehorse births 1994 racehorse deaths Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom Racehorses trained in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun (Sydney)
''The Sun'' was an Australian afternoon tabloid newspaper, first published in Sydney under that name in 1910. History ''The Sunday Sun'' was first published on 5 April 1903. In 1910 Hugh Denison founded Sun Newspaper Ltd (later Sun Newspapers Ltd) and took over publication of the old and ailing ''Australian Star'' and its sister ''Sunday Sun'', appointing Monty Grover as editor-in-chief. The ''Star'' became ''The Sun'', and the ''Sunday Sun'' became ''The Sun: Sunday edition'' on 11 December 1910. According to the claim below the masthead of that issue, it had a "circulation larger than that of any other Sunday paper in Australia". Denison sold the business in 1925. In November 1929 Associated Newspapers Ltd was formed by merging Sun Newspapers Ltd and S. Bennett Ltd, publishers of '' The Evening News''. Sun Newspapers Ltd and S. Bennett Ltd were de-listed on the Stock Exchange and replaced with Associated Newspapers Ltd. Associated Newspapers Ltd then took over ''Smith's W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane Times
''Brisbane Times'' is an online newspaper for Brisbane and Queensland, Australia. It is owned and run by Nine Publishing, publishers of ''The Age'', ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and other mastheads. As of 2024, the editor is Sean Parnell. History The ''Brisbane Times'' was launched as part of Fairfax Media on 7 March 2007 by then-Queensland Premier Peter Beattie. The founding managing editor was Mitchell Murphy. The publication started with 14 journalists in an attempt by Fairfax to break into the South East Queensland market, competing against the website of News Corporation's incumbent '' The Courier-Mail''. As of 20 November 2018, ''Brisbane Times'' has started a subscription model. Viewers are limited to approximately 25 article views per month before being faced with a news paywall. Web traffic According to third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, the ''Brisbane Times'' is the 191st and 250th most visited website in Australia respectively, as o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australian
''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet daily newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964. 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. Mitchell, Chris (9 March 2006)The Media Report. Australian Broadcasting Company. 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. ''The Australian'' integrates content from overseas newspapers owned by News Corp Australia's international parent News Corp, including ''The Wall Street Journal'' and ''The Times'' of London. History The first edition of ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Mitchell (journalist)
Christopher John Mitchell is an Australian journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of ''The Australian'' from 2002 to 2015. Journalism career In 1973 Mitchell began his career as a 17-year-old cadet on the former afternoon Brisbane tabloid, ''The Telegraph''. After working at the ''Townsville Bulletin'', ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Australian Financial Review'', he joined ''The Australian'' in 1984. He turned down a dentistry scholarship to pursue a career in newspapers. In 1992, aged 35, Mitchell was appointed editor of ''The Australian''. In 1995 he became editor-in-chief of Queensland Newspapers. In the role, he had editorial oversight of ''The Cairns Post'', ''Townsville Bulletin'' and '' Gold Coast Bulletin''. In 2002 he returned to ''The Australian'' as editor-in-chief. Mitchell retired from the position in December 2015. Prior to his retirement, Mitchell had completed 42 years as a journalist with 24 of those years as an editor. Rupert Murdoch praised his contri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Edgar George Holt
Edgar George Holt (27 December 1904 Burnley, Lancashire, England – 11 October 1988 Sydney), was a journalist who wrote for many Australian newspapers. In 1950, he joined the Liberal Party of Australia ''Federal Secretariat'' in a public relations role. Early life The Holt family emigrated to Brisbane in 1916. After his initial education at Brisbane State High School, he joined the staff of ''The Telegraph'', and enrolled at the newly introduced Diploma of Journalism at University of Queensland. He edited the student newspaper '' Galmahra''. Down south In September 1929 Holt joined the ''Melbourne Argus'', and later the ''Melbourne Evening Star'' until it collapsed. In 1935 Holt joined the ''Melbourne Herald'' as a special and leader-writer. In 1940 he joined the ''Daily Telegraph'' as a journalist, and rose to be their literary editor. He joined ''Smith's Weekly'' in 1944, and was editor from 1947 until 1950 when it ceased publication. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hector Holthouse
Hector Le Gay Holthouse (1916 – 1991) was an Australian journalist and author. Holthouse was born on 15 April 1915 in Toowoomba, Queensland. While working as a chemist for the Queensland Sugar industry in North Queensland prior to the Second World War, Holthouse became interested in the history of the area. He took up journalism, writing for the Brisbane ''Telegraph'' for many years, and lecturing in journalism at the University of Queensland. He wrote a number of popular history books about Queensland, which were published between 1967 and 1991. Bibliography * ''River of Gold: the Story of the Palmer River Gold Rush'', Angus and Robertson, 1967, * ''Cannibal Cargoes'', Rigby, 1969, * ''Up Rode the Squatter'', Rigby, 1970, * ''Cyclone: a Century of Australian Cyclonic Destruction'', Rigby, 1971, * ''North Queensland in Colour'', Rigby, 1970, * ''Barrier Reef in Colour'', Rigby, 1971, * ''Gold Coast in Colour'', Rigby, 1971, * ''Gympie Gold - A Dramatic Story of Que ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas William Heney
Thomas William Heney (3 November 1862 – 19 August 1928) was an Australian journalist and poet. Heney was the son of Thomas William Heney (Snr), a printer, and Sarah Elizabeth, ''née'' Carruthers. He was born in Sydney and educated at Cooma, New South Wales, Cooma. Heney Senior was a heavy drinker and died in 1875. Heney joined the staff of The Sydney Morning Herald as a junior assistant reader in 1878, and became a reporter on the The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), Sydney Daily Telegraph six years later. He was editor of the ''Western Grazier'' at Wilcannia, New South Wales, Wilcannia in 1886 but returned to Sydney in 1889 and worked on the ''Echo'' until it ceased publication in 1893. In 1896, he married Amy, daughter of Henry Gullett (New South Wales politician), Henry Gullett. Heney rejoined the ''Herald'' as a reviewer and writer of occasional leaders, was appointed associate editor in 1899, and editor in October 1903. He held this position until 1918 and was subsequently ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walkley Awards
The annual Walkley Awards are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. They cover all media including print, television, documentary, radio, photographic and online media. The Gold Walkley is the highest prize and is chosen from all category winners. In 2023, Not all awards were open to male journalists. The awards are under the administration of the Walkley Foundation for Journalism. The Nikon Photography Prizes are also awarded by the Walkley Foundation at the awards ceremony, on behalf of Nikon. History The awards were instituted in five categories in 1956 by businessman Sir William Walkley, founder of Ampol. After his death, the awards were handled by the Australian Journalists' Association which, in 1992, was merged into the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance. In 2000, the alliance voted to establish the Walkley Foundation. In that same year, the Walkley Awards were merged with the Nikon Press Photographer of the Year Awards. The 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
