JOURNALISTS – AUSTRALIA – DEATH

A giant of Australian journalism, George Negus dies at 82

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Original article by Sam Buckingham-Jones
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 6 : 16-Oct-24

Media industry identities have paid tribute to veteran journalist George Negus, following his death at the age of 82. Negus was one of the founding team of reporters on the Nine Network’s 60 Minutes program, while he was also a presenter on the ABC’s Foreign Corresponde and SBS’s Dateline in a career that spanned both print and broadcast journalism. Negus had been coping with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease in recent years, and his family has released a statement advising that he died "surrounded by loved ones" after a "gracious decline" from the disease.

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Pioneering economics writer Alan Wood dies aged 76

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Original article by Andrew Clark
The Australian Financial Review – Page: Online : 6-Jan-21

It has been revealed that highly regarded economics journalist Alan Wood passed away on 27 December at the age of 76 after a short illness. He began his career as a copy boy, before moving on to become a cadet and then finally a graded journalist. He worked for ‘The Australian’, ‘The Australian Financial Review’, and ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’, and his work has been attributed as playing a significant part in the push to reduce tariffs and open up the Australian economy in the 1970s and 1980s.

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