Paul Murray

Paul Murray may refer to:

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Paul Murray (radio presenter)

Paul Murray is a radio and TV broadcaster based in Sydney, Australia. He was the former regular Mornings presenter on 2UE show "A Sydney Morning". He also hosts Paul Murray Live on Sky News Australia (a panel show examining the day's news from a different perspective) which airs Sunday to Thursday at 9pm AEST.

Career

Prior to Paul joining 2UE he worked for Triple M (most notably has co-host of popular drive show 'Paul and Rach') 2005-2010, Nova969 (Newsroom/Late Nights) 2001-2004, 2SM (Newsroom) 1999-2001 and 2GB (Newsroom) 1998-2000 and again in 2004.

Paul has won a variety of radio awards (ACRA) including Brian White Memorial Award (radio news reporting) and Best Documentary (Triple M's Tribute to Vic Davies). He has also been nominated several times for best comedy segment and in 2012 was nominated for best talk presenter.

Late in 2005, Murray left Nova 96.9 to commence his television career. In November 2005, he began reporting and hosting segments for the Seven Network's morning current affairs & variety program Sunrise; later he was a regular guest on Weekend Sunrise.

Paul Murray (journalist)

Paul Murray is a former working journalist and later editor of The West Australian newspaper who resigned and was later retained to write opinion articles for the same newspaper. Murray was the longest serving newspaper editor in Australia when he resigned in February, 2000.

Biography

Early life

Murray was born in Mt Lawley in 1950, and grew up in the eastern Perth suburb of Guildford in the Swan Valley. His father, Keith Murray, was a journalist at The West Australian for a decade from 1948 and his older brother Kim was a reporter at the Daily News. He attended Guildford Primary School and then Guildford Grammar School. He initially studied geology at the University of Western Australia before changing career.

Career

He took a cadetship at The West Australian in 1970 and through the 1970s worked variously from its Fremantle, Kalgoorlie, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne offices. He worked at the Western Mail from 1981, before returning to The West Australian as chief of staff in 1987. In March 1990 he was appointed editor of the newspaper where he began his career in 1970. He quit The West ten years later to become a morning talk-back announcer on Perth commercial radio station, 6PR, before leaving in 2006 over a contract-renewal disagreement (he rejoined in 2011). In 2006 he returned to The West Australian as a columnist and feature writer.