Paul Murphy (Australian journalist)

Paul Murphy AM is an Australian political journalist. Since 2015 he has been chief executive officer of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA).

Career

Murphy began his TV career as a reporter for the pioneering Australian nightly ABC-TV current affairs program This Day Tonight, which premiered in 1967 and he worked as a senior political reporter for the ABC for many years, including a period hosting the PM radio program.[1]

Murphy was a regular guest on This Sporting Life, voicing parody advertisements and presenting the South Coast News segment. Subsequently he was for several years the host of the SBS-TV current affairs program Dateline.

In the 1994 Australia Day Honours Murphy was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to public broadcasting and to journalism".[2]

Murphy spent 16 years working for several ministers in the New South Wales parliament as press secretary and chief of staff.[3] In April 2015 he joined the administrative team at the MEAA and became chief executive officer in April 2015, taking over from Chris Warren.[4]

His brother is Australian journalist Justin Murphy.

References
  1. 40th Anniversary of ABC PM program Archived 5 August 2012 at Archive.today
  2. "Paul Murphy". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  3. "Staff". Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  4. Christensen, Nic (10 December 2014). "Paul Murphy promoted to CEO of the MEAA, replacing Chris Warren as the head of union". Mumbrella. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
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