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Gary Adshead is the presenter of the Mornings program on 6PR radio in Perth. A journalist for almost 40 years, Adshead has won more WA Media Awards than any other reporter and was one member of the Channel 9 media team that found missing American Robert Bogucki when he went missing in Western Australia's harsh outback in 1999.[1] He is the only journalist to have been recognised as WA Journalist of the Year on four occasions. In 2017, he embarked on a series of reports about Darling Range MLA Barry Urban that would eventually lead to Urban's resignation from the parliament and a three-year jail term for forgery and other dishonesty offences.[2] Adshead was also a director of Football West from 2014 to 2016.[3]

Career

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Adshead, the son of footballer John Adshead, began his career as a journalist in 1984, working for a regional newspaper in Western Australia. He later moved to Auckland to work for the Sunday News before returning to Perth in 1986 to work for Community Newspapers and then The West Australian.[4]

Over the course of the next decade, Adshead worked for all three of Australia's commercial television stations before returning to newspapers with The Sunday Times and The West Australian, then to radio and, for a short stint, a specialist business publisher, Business News. He returned to 6PR in 2022.

Awards

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  • 1997 Daily News Centenary Prize (WA Journalist of the Year) at the WA Media Awards: for his work at Channel 9[5]
  • 1997 TV Prize at the WA Media Awards: for his work at Channel 9[6]
  • 2001 Sports Prize at the WA Media Awards: for his work at The Sunday Times[7]
  • 2007 TV Prize at the WA Media Awards: for his work at Channel 7[8]
  • 2008 Business Prize at the WA Media Awards: in conjunction with Sean Cowan, for their work at The West Australian[9]
  • 2008 Feature Prize at the WA Media Awards: for his work at The West Australian[10]
  • 2009 Consumer Affairs Prize at the WA Media Awards: in conjunction with Sean Cowan, for their work at The West Australian
  • 2009 Arthur Lovekin Prize at the WA Media Awards: for his work at The West Australian
  • 2009 Daily News Centenary Prize at the WA Media Awards: in conjunction with Sean Cowan, for their work at The West Australian
  • 2010 Daily News Centenary Award at the WA Media Awards: in conjunction with Sean Cowan, for their work at The West Australian[11]
  • 2010 Arthur Lovekin Prize from the University of Western Australia: in conjunction with Sean Cowan, for their work at The West Australian[12]
  • 2010 Print Feature at the WA Media Awards: in conjunction with Sean Cowan, for their work at The West Australian[13]
  • 2012 Politics Prize at the WA Media Awards: for his work at The West Australian
  • 2013 Best Print/Text News Report at the WA Media Awards: in conjunction with Luke Eliot, Amanda Banks, Rhianna King and Gabrielle Knowles for their work at The West Australian
  • 2018 Political Report at the WA Media Awards: for his work at The West Australian[14]
  • 2018 WA Journalist of the Year at the WA Media Awards: for his work at The West Australian[15]
  • 2021 TV News Story or Feature at the WA Media Awards: in conjunction with Kamin Gock for their work at WAtoday and Nine News[16]
  • 2021 Health & Medical Report at the WA Media Awards: in conjunction with Kamin Gock for their work at WAtoday and Nine News[17]

References

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  1. ^ "Ep 32 - A Current Affair Confessions". Media Watch. 2023-09-11. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  2. ^ Adshead, Gary (2023-09-17). "The photo and the phone call: How a tip-off toppled master manipulator Barry Urban". WAtoday. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  3. ^ 2017 Football West Annual Report p6.
  4. ^ "Gary Adshead". Business News. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  5. ^ Scoop (journalism magazine), vol. 18 no. 3 (Spring 2007), pp 13–16 (ISSN 0819-4513)
  6. ^ Scoop (journalism magazine), vol. 18 no. 3 (Spring 2007), pp 13–16 (ISSN 0819-4513)
  7. ^ Scoop (journalism magazine), vol. 18 no. 3 (Spring 2007), pp 13–16 (ISSN 0819-4513)
  8. ^ Scoop (journalism magazine), vol. 18 no. 3 (Spring 2007), pp 13–16 (ISSN 0819-4513)
  9. ^ Scoop (journalism magazine), vol. 19 no. 4 (Summer 2008), pp 10–13 (ISSN 0819-4513)
  10. ^ Scoop (journalism magazine), vol. 19 no. 4 (Summer 2008), pp 10–13 (ISSN 0819-4513)
  11. ^ "The West Australian wins at media awards". The West Australian. 2010-11-12. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  12. ^ "The West Australian wins at media awards". The West Australian. 2010-11-12. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  13. ^ "The West Australian wins at media awards". The West Australian. 2010-11-12. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  14. ^ "WA Media Awards". MEAA. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  15. ^ "WA Media Awards". MEAA. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  16. ^ "WA Media Awards". MEAA. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  17. ^ "WA Media Awards". MEAA. Retrieved 2024-07-30.