Mark Riley (journalist)

Mark Riley is an Australian journalist, who is chief political reporter for Seven News based in Canberra.^[1]

Riley started his journalism career in 1979 at The Newcastle Herald,^[2] where he covered the 1989 Newcastle earthquake. He soon moved to The Sydney Morning Herald, where he worked in politics. In 1998, Riley was appointed New York correspondent for the Herald and for Melbourne's The Age.^[3]

Riley jointly won a Walkley Award in 1999 for his part in the SMH team's coverage of East Timor's independence.^[4] Riley provided many reports for both newspapers on the 11 September terrorist attacks.^[3] Returning to Australia in 2002, Riley became the SMH's Chief Political Correspondent. In this position he provided commentary from Parliament House.^[2]

Riley moved to the Seven Network in early 2004, where he has performed similar work to that with the Herald.

He regularly provides live commentary on Sunrise and various Seven News bulletins.

Mark is married to social commentator Suzanne Mostyn and they have two children.

References

1. ^ Meade, Amanda: Poll shapes up as battle of TV journos, The Australian, 26 July 2010.
2. ^ ^{a b} Overington, Caroline: Ten questions: Mark Reilly, The Australian, 2 August 2010.
3. ^ ^{a b} Riley, Mark; Alcorn, Gay (2001). "September 11: The Terrorists and the Towers". Best Australian Essays (Black Inc.) 2001. 
4. ^ Kirkpatrick, Rod: News media chronicle, July 1999 to June 2000, Australian Studies in Journalism, 9: 2000.

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