Peter Cronau

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Peter Cronau is an Australian journalist and television producer of investigative reports.

Career

Cronau worked in the community field for ten years before starting his journalistic career on a Sydney communal radio in 1961 . As a freelance journalist, he has published articles in many of Australia's major newspapers. Cronau received a Masters degree in Journalism from the University of Technology UTS in 1991. He taught journalism to students himself and was director of the UTS Australian Center for Independent Journalism ATCJ from 1995 to 1996. 1998 Cronau began for the program Four Corners of Australian Broadcasting Corporation carry out research (ABC). He later became a producer for Media Watch for ABC and a reporter for Background Briefing on the radio. Cronau was also active for the 7.30 Report program.

Cronau is a co-founder of Pacific Media Watch and a member of the editorial board of the Pacific Media Center.

Awards

The Australian Human Rights Commission's 2005 television award went to Cronau, Matthew Carney and Sandra Harvey for the Four Corners report Out of Mind on ABC. The report reports on mentally ill homeless people who should be rehabilitated. Funding cuts in Australia and its states have cut mental health care places and nurses. The report followed sick people and hospital workers in Sydney.

In 2006, Cronau and Liz Jackson and Lin Buckfield received the Australian Gold Walkley , Australia's most important journalism award, for the report Stoking the Fires in Four Corners . The documentary deals with the background to the unrest in East Timor in 2006 . In 2019 Cronau was nominated again for the Walkley Award; Together with Mark Willacy, Louie Eroglu and Naomi Selvaratnam for the Four Corners report Inside the Watch House on children in prison in the category “Public Service Journalism”.

On May 6, 2015, President Taur Matan Ruak awarded Cronau the Insignia of the Ordem de Timor-Leste in recognition of his commitment to the independence of East Timor. The award ceremony took place on May 20, 2015, on the 13th Independence Day of East Timor .

Publications

  • The Base - Australia's Secret Role in Amerca's Global Wars , ABC Books 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ABC News: Peter Cronau , accessed on November 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ Online Journalism: Journalism research by journalists , February 1, 2012 , accessed November 16, 2019.
  3. ^ Pacific Media Center: Peter Cronau , accessed November 16, 2019.
  4. ^ Australian Human Rights Commission: human rights medal 2005 , accessed November 16, 2019.
  5. ^ National Library of Australia: Out of mind [videorecording ], accessed November 16, 2019.
  6. ↑ The Walkley Foundation: Walkley Winners Archive , accessed November 16, 2019.
  7. ↑ The Walkley Foundation: Finalists announced for the 2019 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism , accessed November 16, 2019.
  8. ↑ Decreto do Presidente da República n ° 43/2015 de 6 de Maio , accessed on September 18, 2019.
  9. ↑ CIDAC: Timor Leste: reconhecimento da solidariedade internacional , accessed on September 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Cronau, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian journalist and television producer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century