Michael Gordon (Australian journalist)
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Michael Gordon | |
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Born | Melbourne, Australia |
14 August 1955
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Cowes, Australia |
Nationality | Australian |
Education | Bachelor of Commerce |
Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
Occupation | Journalist |
Years active | 1973–2017 |
Employer | The Age, The Herald, The Australian |
Parent(s) | Harry Gordon |
Michael Gordon (14 August 1955 – 3 February 2018) was an Australian journalist. Gordon was the son of the newspaper journalist and editor Harry Gordon.[1]
Early life and education
Born in 1955 in Melbourne, Australia, he completed his part-time studies in degree in Commerce at Melbourne University.[2]
Career
Gordon joined The Age in 1973 at the age of 17 as a cadet journalist[2] and spent most of his career with the newspaper in Melbourne, reporting on areas such as politics, police, industrial relations and sport.[3] He retired from The Age in June 2017 at the rank of national political editor,[2] the position he held since 2013,[4] after working for the newspaper for 37 years.[1][3] Gordon also worked for a time as a New York correspondent for The Herald in the late 1980s and later as national political editor for The Australian from 1994 to 1998.[1][4]
Gordon won a Walkley Award in 2017 for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism 2017.[5] Gordon was also the recipient of the 2005 Graeme Perkin Award for Australia's most outstanding journalist at the Quill Awards.[6][1]
Death
He died in February 2018, at the age of 62, from a heart attack while taking part in an ocean swim at Cowes in Phillip Island, Victoria.[1][7] His death prompted messages of sympathy from Tony Wright (associate editor of The Age), Greg Hywood (Fairfax Media chief executive) and former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.[8]
After his death, a journalism fellowship in his name was set up by the Melbourne Press Club.
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