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The free risk score that could change your life: What you might not know about type 2 diabetes - and how you can check your risk with an easy online tool Helen Flanagan 'plans epic return to Coronation Street next year' - following her 'split' from fiancé Scott Sinclair Prince Harry did NOT make any changes to his memoir Spare after the Queen died, chose the title HIMSELF, claims Meghan Markle's friend Omid Scobie 'It was the best thing that ever happened to me': Selena Gomez reflects on 'worst break-up ever' with Justin Bieber in harrowing new documentary 'It came out of left field!' Keanu Reeves 'reacts to THAT Matthew Perry jibe' - after Friends star questioned why Speed actor 'still walks among us' In 2000, Stone was appointed a director of SBS, where he was deputy chairman until 2010.Ĭhloe Green gives birth! Heiress is seen for first time since welcoming second child with husband Manuele Thiella He served as head of current affairs for Rupert Murdoch's Fox Network in New York and returned to Australia to become network head of current affairs for Channel Seven. Stone left 60 Minutes in 1992 and between 19 was editor-in-chief of The Bulletin magazine. They were followed by a host of journalists who gained fame from the program under Stone including Jeff McMullen, Jennifer Byrne, Mike Munro and Richard Carleton.Įach Sunday at 7.30pm the 60 Minutes filed reports from across Australia and around the world.
The show made its debut with three reporters who would become stars: Ian Leslie, George Negus and Ray Martin. On February 11, 1979, Australia's own version of 60 Minutes was born with Stone the inaugural executive producer.
'With masterful timing, he suddenly switched from berating me to breaking the news I had just been given the most coveted job in television journalism, declaring: "I don't give a f*** what it takes. 'Packer called me into his office and started reminding me how badly I had let him down over the years,' Stone wrote in his memoir Compulsive Viewing. In 1978 Gerald Stone was asked by Channel Nine boss Kerry Packer to launch an Australian edition of American current affairs show 60 Minutes. Gerald Stone set the standard for commercial television news storytelling and current affairs in Australia Stone's biggest break came when he was asked by Channel Nine boss Kerry Packer to launch an Australian edition of the American 60 Minutes. In 1967 he broke into television as a reporter on ABC's This Day Tonight before being hired in 1974 for a new Channel Nine current affairs program, Federal File. Stone emigrated to Australia in 1962 and was hired by the Daily Mirror in Sydney and spent three months in Vietnam as a special correspondent for The Australian. He studied journalism at Cornell University where he graduated with a distinction and in 1957 began work as a copy boy for The New York Times. Still dark-haired, Leslie described Stone as 'a giant in our industry', 'our commander in chief' - a storyteller, author, mentor and 'inspiration to many'.īorn and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Stone was the child of Russian Jewish immigrants and served in the US Army where he rose to the rank of first lieutenant. Ian Leslie (pictured at the lectern) said he, Negus and Martin were not household names when 60 Minutes debuted and getting a call to work on the program was 'like winning the lottery'
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