Tributes
Do
you know someone at News Limited who has lost their job? Many of News Limited’s
best people - talented, experienced, award-winning journalists, photographers and graphic designers - have been made redundant.
You
can add your tribute to a News Limited worker and their tremendous contribution
to the craft of journalism here. Make sure others get to know the enormous
contribution of skills, loyalty and expertise that is being lost as News
Limited culls its editorial staff.
Please
write your contributions and send them to us here:
Marie Blanch
Marie Blanch, who has left the Sunday Mail, is one of those journalists who were born to the craft. From a family of journalists, she couldn't wait to get into the business, starting out as a copytaker at the Sunday Sun when she was just 17, a job which she used to keep body and soul together during her three years studying for a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Queensland.
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David Sproule
Sprouley was the senior photographer in The Australian’s Brisbane bureau when I first started out on the national paper in 1991. He was already a veteran hand and had a fund of yarns about his tabloid days, yarns that involved hiding out for days on end to get the right shot or driving for days on end to make sure the job was done by deadline. Dave was usually more of a character than whoever it was he was photographing.
He was a perfect mentor for a nervous young hack starting out in the game. It was all about the job – there wasn’t a huge amount of ego and no side whatsoever. He always put a subject completely at their ease and more than once came up with the killer question when his reporter (me) was floundering about trying to think of something to ask.
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Grant Nowell
Senior
Advertiser photographer Grant Nowell has been the main features photographer
for The Advertiser for many years and also served as pictorial editor for four
years. As a photographer he is known for his passion and initiative, and his
images are part of the definition of the newspaper. He even made Alexander
Downer famous by capturing him in fishnet stockings. That photograph won him a
Walkley Award Nomination, and he has received many awards in his career.
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Patrick Hamilton
Patrick Hamilton started his career as a
photographer with The Toowoomba Chronicle after graduating from Downlands College,
Toowoomba as a casual darkroom assistant. This soon turned into assignments as
a photographer for the following 12 months before he moved to Brisbane to study
at The Queensland College of Art to study an Associate Diploma in Applied
Photography in 1987.
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Paul Wicks
40 years in newspapers; 39 years at Qld Newspapers - Started as a first-year cadet at the Toowoomba Chronicle in mid-1969 and, as was the way in regional papers then, he did everything. On his first few shifts he was required to fill a senior’s glue bottle as well as subbing fillers on Page 3.
In the next 12 months, Paul also deputised as chief sports writer (covering Toowoomba Bulimba Cup rugby league games and seems to recall seeing a certain Wayne Bennett in Downs sides then) as well as general reporting and some subbing.
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Richard De Waal
10 years in newspapers; 7.5 years at Qld Newspapers - Richard started in the industry as a casual artist with Fairfax in Sydney, working on mastheads such as the Sydney Morning Herald, Financial Review and Sun Herald.
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Judith Kerr
22 years in journalism; 10 years with Qld Newspapers - Jude started a cadetship with the Latrobe Valley Express in 1987 before moving to Leader Newspapers for two years. The overseas travel bug bit a couple of years later and she spent three years in London working on the Garnett Press and Sunday Sport before heading to Bangkok where she got her first subbing experience on the Nation News.
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Gordon Leach
31 years in journalism; 17 years with Qld Newspapers - Gordon started his newspaper career with the old afternoon Sun in Sydney and moved to Brisbane to join the now defunct Daily Sun in 1985.
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Theo Wisdom
43 years in journalism; 14 years with Qld Newspapers - Theo started work in the proof-reading room at the Christchurch Press in 1966 as a copy-holder but soon realised he could do what the sub-editors did and approached the editor for a job, which he got.
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Peter Larner
44 years in journalism; 17 years with Qld Newspapers - Peter started work as a journalist on the Mt Isa Mail when it was owned by Rupert Murdoch.He moved to Adelaide to work on the Adelaide News for many years before joining the senior staff at the old Sunday Truth in Brisbane.
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Neon Martin
Neon Martin had the classic Adelaide News upbringing, starting on Rupert Murdoch’s original flagship News as a copyboy in the 1960s and doing the four year cadetship before moving on to The Advertiser as a photographer in 1970.
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Rosetta Mastrantone
Rosetta Mastrantone was a graphic artist who started working at Adelaide's Sunday Mail on May 25, 2004. Ironically her redundancy letter was dated May 25, 2009 , making it a total of precisely five years with the paper. Rosetta began in image creation and graphic news-style work , impressing colleagues with her cheerful nature and creative flair.
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