Queensland Minister for Major Industries Tony Perrett presenting Pete Lewis together with his award recognising his induction into the Rural Press Membership of Queensland Corridor of Fame. Image: Carolyn Martin
Famend ABC Landline journalist Peter Lewis has at this time turn into the seventh member of the Rural Press Membership of Queensland Rural Journalism Corridor of Fame following a presentation at a Nationwide Ag Day lunch occasion in Brisbane.
Mr Lewis joins an esteemed group of media professionals who’ve made vital contributions to rural journalism in Queensland, together with the late Malcolm McCosker, Robin McConchie, Rod Inexperienced, Kerry Lonergan, Pip Courtney, and Beef Central’s Jon Condon.
The Rural Press Membership of Queensland structure stipulates that Corridor of Fame inductees should have achieved vital prominence over a interval of not less than 20 years, contributed an intensive physique of printed work and made a major, constructive influence on rural and regional Queensland.
Peter Lewis is an award-winning rural journalist who has spent a 40-year skilled profession sharing tales concerning the folks, industries, and communities of rural and regional Australia throughout a spread of media platforms together with newspapers, radio and tv information and present affairs.
Clockwise from high left: With the late bush icon RM Williams; receiving an award as a cadet journalist with the Central Coast Specific; downtime with an ABC information group; Gaucho mode throughout a rural and rugby tour of Argentina and an ABC information profile image.His profession started with a cadetship in native newspapers earlier than he joined the nationwide broadcaster ABC, the place he labored as a radio and tv information and present affairs reporter, masking the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Canberra, three Summer time Olympic Video games, America’s Cup and Method One races, and a Papal tour. He additionally served as an ABC information correspondent in New Zealand.
Nevertheless it was his twenty years with the award-winning ABC Landline rural affairs program – together with 5 years as its Government Producer- that established his prominence as a extremely revered and trusted reporter on problems with significance to regional, rural and distant Australia.
Since retiring from the ABC, Peter has continued his ardour for rural story telling as a contract journalist by means of his Means with Phrases consultancy.
In his ‘pure habitat’ as a rural occasion MC. This image was taken at a Beef 2015 breakfast, when Peter had simply delivered a keynote handle on the way forward for rural media in Queensland. He’s pictured taking a query from former Rockhampton State MP Rob Schwarten.
He has additionally inspired and mentored many younger journalists over his profession. He’s a former president and life member of the Rural Press Membership of Queensland, a former president of the Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists and delegate to the Worldwide Federation of Agricultural Journalists. He’s additionally a former nationwide president of the journalists’ part of the Media Leisure and Arts Alliance (2010-12).
His journalism has been recognised with quite a few awards together with a Dunlop nationwide motorsport award, a Eureka Science Prize, Clarion Awards from Queensland journalism and the 2014 Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists’ Award for Excellence in Rural Broadcasting.
Queensland Minister for Major Industries Tony Perrett and Queensland Rural Press Membership Corridor of Fame inductee Peter Lewis
In making at this time’s presentation on behalf of the Rural Press Membership of Queensland committee, president James Nason stated Mr Lewis’ 40 yr profession had left an enduring influence on the Queensland rural media trade.
“Peter’s ardour for rural Australia, mixed together with his extraordinary storytelling expertise and management, have left an indelible mark,” Mr Nason stated
“Peter is a masterful communicator and a journalist who has earned monumental respect for his dedication and dedication to serving to to make sure the tales of rural Australia are effectively informed and broadly understood.”
“It’s with nice satisfaction that we honour him as one of many best rural reporters and storytellers of our time.”
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