Graham Davis
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Graham Hunt Davis is a Walkley Award and Logie Award
winning Australia
n journalist
. He is co-owner of the Australian television production and events company, Grubstreet Media.
, the elder son of the Rev Peter Davis, who served as President of the Methodist Church in Fiji and, later, New South Wales
Moderator of the Uniting Church in Australia
. He spent his early years on the island of Lakeba in the Lau Group and attended Buca District School, Savusavu, and Drasa Avenue School, Lautoka, before being sent to Newington College
, Sydney (1966–1971) as a boarder.
(External Services/World Service News), ABC
and the Macquarie Radio Network
before moving to television
as a news reporter with the Seven Network in Sydney in 1981.
and the staff of the weekly program Sunday and remained there until 1994. For the next ten years he was an occasional guest reporter for Sunday and worked for the Seven Network
, SBS
and with Foreign Correspondent on the ABC. In 2004, Davis returned full time to Sunday and remained there until August 2006. He founded Grubstreet Media in 2007 with fellow Nine Network journalist Peter Hiscock. The company produced the 2007 and 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards and associated programming for Queensland Events and CNN International and conceived the First Australians Business Awards for the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce. It also makes television documentaries and commercials. In 2011, Grubstreet produced the national television and cinema campaign "Australian Mining. This is Our Story" for Lawrence Creative and the Minerals Council of Australia.
Print
Davis writes for The Australian and his work has also appeared in The Bulletin
, The Sydney Morning Herald
, Herald Sun
, the Fiji Times
and Fiji Sun. He also writes the blog, Grubsheet.
for a story "Ships of Shame", on the parlous state of world shipping. His 2002 report, Silent Witnesses - which detailed cases of child abuse in the Jehovah's Witnesses - won a New York Festivals Award in the US. In 2004 he gained an award from the Australian Council of Deans of Education for the Sunday program "Cash Cow Campuses", which exposed a plagiarism scandal at the University of Newcastle, Also in 2004, he won a National Press Club Excellence in Health Award for the Sunday investigation "Killer Hospitals". He also holds a Michael Daley Award for science reporting.
Logie Award
The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television as a...
winning Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
. He is co-owner of the Australian television production and events company, Grubstreet Media.
Early life
Davis was born in Suva, FijiFiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
, the elder son of the Rev Peter Davis, who served as President of the Methodist Church in Fiji and, later, New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
Moderator of the Uniting Church in Australia
Uniting Church in Australia
The Uniting Church in Australia was formed on 22 June 1977 when many congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, the Presbyterian Church of Australia and the Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union....
. He spent his early years on the island of Lakeba in the Lau Group and attended Buca District School, Savusavu, and Drasa Avenue School, Lautoka, before being sent to Newington College
Newington College
Newington College is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Stanmore, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
, Sydney (1966–1971) as a boarder.
Radio
Davis worked as a journalist in Britain and Australia for the BBCBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
(External Services/World Service News), ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
and the Macquarie Radio Network
Macquarie Radio Network
Macquarie Radio Network is the name of the company that owns and operates 2GB and 2CH in Sydney and MTR 1377 in Melbourne. It is a publicly listed company, majority owned by John Singleton. The Chief Executive is Angela Clarke....
before moving to television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
as a news reporter with the Seven Network in Sydney in 1981.
Television
In 1983 Davis joined the Nine NetworkNine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
and the staff of the weekly program Sunday and remained there until 1994. For the next ten years he was an occasional guest reporter for Sunday and worked for the Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
, SBS
Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...
and with Foreign Correspondent on the ABC. In 2004, Davis returned full time to Sunday and remained there until August 2006. He founded Grubstreet Media in 2007 with fellow Nine Network journalist Peter Hiscock. The company produced the 2007 and 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards and associated programming for Queensland Events and CNN International and conceived the First Australians Business Awards for the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce. It also makes television documentaries and commercials. In 2011, Grubstreet produced the national television and cinema campaign "Australian Mining. This is Our Story" for Lawrence Creative and the Minerals Council of Australia.
The Bulletin
The Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine that was published in Sydney from 1880 until January 2008. It was influential in Australian culture and politics from about 1890 until World War I, the period when it was identified with the "Bulletin school" of Australian literature. Its influence...
, The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The...
, Herald Sun
Herald Sun
The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia. It is published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Limited, itself a subsidiary of News Corporation. It is available for purchase throughout Melbourne, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital...
, the Fiji Times
Fiji Times
The Fiji Times is a daily English-language newspaper published in Suva, Fiji. Established in Levuka on 4 September 1869, it is Fiji's oldest newspaper still operating....
and Fiji Sun. He also writes the blog, Grubsheet.
Awards
He is the winner of a number of awards including the 1995 Walkley Award for Best Investigative Report for a report on commercial infiltration of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a 1994 Logie AwardLogie Awards of 1994
- Gold Logie :Most Popular Personality on Australian TelevisionPresented by Michael Crawford- Gold Logie :Most Popular Personality on Australian TelevisionPresented by Michael Crawford- Gold Logie :Most Popular Personality on Australian Television...
for a story "Ships of Shame", on the parlous state of world shipping. His 2002 report, Silent Witnesses - which detailed cases of child abuse in the Jehovah's Witnesses - won a New York Festivals Award in the US. In 2004 he gained an award from the Australian Council of Deans of Education for the Sunday program "Cash Cow Campuses", which exposed a plagiarism scandal at the University of Newcastle, Also in 2004, he won a National Press Club Excellence in Health Award for the Sunday investigation "Killer Hospitals". He also holds a Michael Daley Award for science reporting.