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Harry Potter (journalist)
Harry Potter (20 July 1941 – 8 May 2014) was an Australian journalist, television reporter and presenter. A veteran police and crime reporter whose career spanned more than fifty years, Potter first joined ''Ten Eyewitness News'', a nightly news show on Network Ten, in 1978. In 2013, Harry Potter became the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award at the Kennedy Awards. Potter was diagnosed with cancer in the early 2000s. He died from cancer on 8 May 2014, at the age of 72. He was survived by his wife, journalist Katrina Lee, and four children – Tim, Nick, Elisa and Jack. Hamish McLean, the CEO of Ten Network Holdings (the parent company of Network Ten), called Potter "a giant of Australian journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...." According t ...
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TV Tonight
TV Tonight is an Australian-based website which features reviews, news and programming information related to television in Australia as well as OzTAM ratings information. The site was started by television critic David Knox in 2007 after listeners of his radio programs asked him for information they had missed. Knox runs the site, publishing his interviews with Australian media actors, producers, directors and programmers. Knox regularly visits the sets of Australian television series and reviews television programs. Knox also served as television critic for ABC Radio National's breakfast program from 2009 to 2015. Dan Barrett is now in this role. Knox has an advanced diploma in screenwriting and was the founding Artistic Director of Screenplay. TV Tonight is also referenced in Australian media, including ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and news.com.au, while Knox gives commentary for other media outlets including News Corp Australia, MediaWeek and ABC. The website beg ...
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Hamish McLean
Hamish is a Scottish masculine given name. It is the anglicized form of the vocative case of the Gaelic name '' Seamus'' or ''Sheumais''. It is therefore, the equivalent of James. People Given name * Hamish Bennett, retired New Zealand cricketer * Hamish Bennett (director), New Zealand filmmaker * Hamish Blake (born 1981), Australian comedian and radio presenter * Hamish Bond (born 1986), New Zealand Olympic rower * Hamish Bowles (born 1963), European editor-at-large for ''Vogue'' * Hamish Brown, writer and mountain walker * Hamish Carter (born 1971), Olympic gold medallist triathlete from New Zealand * Hamish Clark (born 1965), Scottish actor * Hamish Falconer (born 1985), British politician and diplomat * Hamish Forbes, 7th Baronet (1916–2007), British Army major * Hamish Fraser, Scottish Catholic journalist and activist * Hamish Glencross (born 1978), heavy metal guitarist for the band My Dying Bride * Hamish Harding (1964–2023), British businessman * Hamish Har ...
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Australian Television Journalists
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the coun ...
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2014 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ...
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Sandra Sully
Sandra Lee Sully (born 18 February 1965) is an Australian news presenter and journalist, currently presenting ''10 News First'' in Sydney. Sully attended Brisbane State High School, graduating in 1978. Career Sully started out presenting ''Ten Eyewitness News Brisbane'' in the 1990s, before presenting Ten's flagship ''Ten Eyewitness News Sydney'' 5:00 pm weeknight bulletin. Sully is best known as a newsreader on '' Ten Late News'' from 1991 to 2014. She was the first Australian television journalist to cover news of the 11 September terrorist attacks. She was on air when the first attack occurred and, shortly afterwards, began presenting live breaking coverage. Sully hosted the second season of game show '' Australia's Brainiest'' in 2005. She also hosted ''Cool Aid Australia's National Carbon Test'' in 2008. Sully was the first woman to co-host the broadcast of the Melbourne Cup carnival and did so for seven years. In June 2013, Sully and fellow Channel Ten journalist ...
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Journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journalist, occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles. The appropriate role for journalism varies from country to country, as do perceptions of the profession, and the resulting status. In some nations, the news media are controlled by government and are not independent. In others, news media are independent of the government and operate as private industry. In addition, countries may have differing implementations of laws handling the freedom of speech, freedom of the press as well as slander and Libel, libel cases. The proliferation of the Internet and smartphones has brought significant changes to the media landscape since the turn of the 21st century. This has created a shif ...
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Parent Company
A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the Security (finance), securities of other companies. A holding company usually does not produce goods or services itself. Its purpose is to own Share capital, stock of other companies to create a corporate group. In some jurisdictions around the world, holding companies are called parent companies, which, besides holding Share capital, stock in other companies, can conduct trade and other business activities themselves. Holding companies reduce risk for the shareholders, and can permit the ownership and control of a number of different companies. ''The New York Times'' uses the term ''parent holding company''. Holding companies can be subsidiaries in a Subsidiary#Tiered subsidiaries, tiered structure. Holding companies are also created to hold assets such as intellectual property or trade secrets, that are protected from the operating company. That creates a smaller risk when it comes ...
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Ten Network Holdings
Network Ten Pty Limited, trading as Paramount Australia & New Zealand, is a major media company in Australia. Headquartered in Sydney, its major asset is Network 10, a free-to-air television network. Formerly a public company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, since December 2019, it has been a subsidiary of Paramount Networks UK & Australia. Assets While originally focusing on running a television network, Ten has recently diversified into a range of other media areas over the past decade. Below are some of the businesses it has run, or is involved with: * Network 10 is an Australian commercial free-to-air television primary channel ** Sydney, Northern NSW & Gold Coast, Southern NSW & ACT ** Melbourne and Regional Victoria ** Brisbane and Regional Queensland ** Adelaide ** Perth * 10 Bold Drama is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel dramatic programming aimed towards viewers over 40. * 10 Peach Comedy is an Australian free-to-air digital ...
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Katrina Lee
Katrina Lee is an Australian executive director and former television news presenter. Lee is perhaps best known for her association with Network Ten where she was a Logie Award-winning news presenter at TEN-10 in Sydney from the 1970s to the 1990s. Career Television career After beginning her career as a newspaper journalist at ''The Daily Telegraph'' in the 1970s, Lee joined TEN-10. Lee was appointed as co-presenter of '' Ten Eyewitness News'' in 1978. Her appointment came just months after the Australian Broadcasting Commission attracted widespread attention by appointing Margaret Throsby as an ''ABC News'' presenter on ABC TV. Although Melody Iliffe is considered to be Australia's first female news presenter when she read the news on Brisbane's QTQ-9 in the 1960s, Throsby and Lee are now regarded as being part of a pioneering group of women who became the first women to read television news bulletins in Australia. Throughout her time reading the news at Ten, Lee was p ...
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Journalist
A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertising, or public relations personnel. Depending on the form of journalism, "journalist" may also describe various categories of people by the roles they play in the process. These include reporters, correspondents, citizen journalists, Editorial board, editors, Editorial board, editorial writers, columnists, and photojournalists. A reporter is a type of journalist who researches, writes and reports on information in order to present using source (journalism), sources. This may entail conducting interviews, information-gathering and/or writing articles. Reporters may split their time between working in a newsroom, from home or outside to witness events or interview people. Reporters may be assigned a specific Beat reporting, beat (area of cov ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday editi ...
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