- Graham Davis
Graham Hunt Davis (born
October 7 1953 ) is aWalkley Award [ [http://www.walkleys.com/component/option,com_dbquery/Itemid,29/task,ExecuteQuery/qid,2/ The Walkley Awards] ] andLogie Award winningAustralia ninvestigative journalist . [ [http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/personalities/grahamdavis.asp Sunday] ]Early life
Davis was born in
Fiji , [ [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/08/1191695778354.html Sydney Morning Herald - Australia warns of Fiji violence] ] the first son of the Rev Peter Davis, who served as President of theMethodist Church in Fiji andNew South Wales Moderator of theUniting Church in Australia . [ [http://www.wesleymission.org.au/releases/0703302.asp Wesley Mission - Obituary] ] From Fiji, Davis attendedNewington College (1966-1971) as a boarder. [Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp49]Radio
Davis worked mainly in
radio for theBBC , ABC and theMacquarie Radio Network before moving totelevision in 1981.Television
In 1981 Davis joined the
Nine Network and the staff of "Sunday" and remained there until 1994. For the next ten years he was as an occasional guest reporter for "Sunday" and worked for theSeven Network , SBS [ [http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/interview_paul_keating_129763 SBS - Dateline] ] and with "Foreign Correspondent" [ [http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/2001/foreign2001.htm Foreigh Correspondent - Archive] ] on the ABC. In 2004, Davis returned full time to "Sunday" and remained there until August 2006. [ [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24092406-7583,00.html The Australian - Nine put boot into wrong shows] ]Print
He has also written for "
The Bulletin ", "The Sydney Morning Herald ", "The Australian ", "Herald Sun " and the "Fiji Times ".Awards
He is the winner of a number of awards including the 1995 Walkley Award for Best Investigative Report for a story on commercial infiltration of the ABC, a 1994 Logie Award for a story "Ship of Shame". In 2004 he was the winner of the Best feature (electronic media) Award, from the Australian Council of Dean's of Education, for the Sunday program "Cash cow campuses". [ [http://www.acde.edu.au/award-winners.html Winners of the Excellence in Education Journalism Awards] ]
Peer assessment
Davis has judged the Walkely Awards and was on the national panel that reviewed the Journalists' Code of Ethics. [ [http://abc.com.au/4corners/4c40/essays/ricketson.htm Four Corners - Journalism of Journalism] ]
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