Peter Charley

Peter Charley is a U.S-based journalist, documentary film maker and television producer.[1][2][3][4]

Early life and education

Peter was born in Deniliquin, Australia, and later lived in Papua New Guinea where his family was based in Goroka, Madang and Port Moresby. In PNG, Peter was invited to accompany a medical expedition into the remote Eastern Highlands to investigate an outbreak of the fatal brain disorder ‘kuru’, caused by ritualistic cannibalism. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Kuru-Information-Page.

Peter attended Scots School, Albury, and Newington College, in Sydney. He studied communications at New York University and holds a master's degree in media practice from the University of Sydney.

At Harvard University, Peter studied Central Challenges of American National Security, Strategy and the Press (via Ed-X).

Peter undertook European studies at the European Academy in Berlin and studied Spanish Language at Escuela Dinámico in Antigua, Guatemala, and Spanish Language and Latin American Culture at the Academia de Español in Quito, Ecuador.

Journalism career

Peter began his career as a reporter on the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sydney Sun newspapers in Australia where he worked as a general news reporter, feature writer and music critic. He later worked as an on-air news and current affairs reporter and producer at the Seven Network in Australia before moving to New York, where he worked as Associate Producer at Sixty Minutes, Channel Nine, and as a reporter for National Public Radio.

Peter traveled extensively throughout Central and South America, covering conflict and civil unrest in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil. In New York, Peter was later appointed Show Producer of the current affairs program The Reporters, produced by Fox television.

Between 2000 and 2007, Peter worked as Executive Producer of the ABC’s flagship news program, Lateline. He then joined Australia’s SBS television as Executive Producer of the international current affairs program, Dateline – a position he held for seven years. In 2014, Peter left Dateline to take up the role of Executive Producer of Al Jazeera’s North American investigative unit, based in Washington DC.

Awards

Examples of Peter's Work

Football’s Wall of Silence. 2018. Executive Producer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz85ZyOGWeE

The Poacher’s Pipeline – Dealers, Diplomats and the Illegal Horn Trade. 2017. Executive Producer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMguWY99q6s

Spy Merchants. Executive Producer. 2017. Executive Producer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HA-cEMKCDs

The Dark Side – The Secret World of Sports Doping. 2016. Executive Producer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJRPxmTuxoI

On Life’s Border. 2000. Writer and Producer. https://www.sbs.com.au/guide/video/11755075787/On-Lifes-Border

Border Lives. 2001. Writer and Producer. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/story/border-lives

Bolivia’s Coca Wars. 2000. Reporter, Producer/Director, Cameraman. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/story/bolivias-coca-wars

References

Peter’s experiences as a reporter and producer have been cited in ‘Bearing Witness: The Lives of War Correspondents and Photojournalists’ by Denise Leith (2004) ISBN 9781740512602 (pp. 72–91) and ‘The Man Who Saw Too Much’ by John Little (2004) ISBN 9780733617256.

Australian journalist Bruce Guthrie referenced Peter’s work as a television producer in his book ‘Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court’ (2010) ISBN: 0522858163 (ISBN13: 9780522858267) pp 118-122.

In his book ‘Say it with Feeling’ (2011) ISBN 9781742610252, 60 Minutes Australia’s founding Executive Producer Gerald Stone referred to Peter as “(a man with) a scruffy, just-got-home-after-an-all-night-bender appearance” who “was at the very top of his game, the kind of journalist who would never let you down on a good story”.

SBS Director of News and Current Affairs Jim Carroll referred to Peter as “a person and journalist of the highest integrity, intelligence and capability,” (The Guardian, 2014) https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/dec/03/the-weekly-beast-abc-staff-say-no-to-the-hunger-games

  1. ↑ SBS Dateline Website
  2. ↑ Stone, Gerald (2011). Say It With Feeling. Pan McMillan. pp. 299, 301–2. ISBN 9781742610252.
  3. ↑ Stone, Gerald (2011). Say It With Feeling. Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited. pp. 299, 301–2. ISBN 9781742610252.
  4. ↑ Little, John (2004). The Man Who Saw Too Much. Hachette UK. p. 315. ISBN 9780733617256.
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