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Newsroom: Peter Charley, deputy director Al Jazeera Investigative Unit

Peter Charley, deputy director of the global Al Jazeera Investigative Unit, joined the MECO Newsroom at the University of Sydney as guest speaker this semester.

Charley is a multi-award-winning journalist with more than 40 years of experience as a reporter, executive producer and producer-director. His distinguished career, which started as a cadet at the Sydney Morning Herald, included a decade as ABC Lateline executive producer, and then 7 years as executive producer at SBS Dateline. He joined Al Jazeera to head its Washington bureau in 2014 where he was producer, writer and reporter of the controversial award-winning two-part series How to Sell a Massacre. He is also the author of the bestselling book based on the investigation which led to the resignation of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation senate candidate Steve Dickson.

Charley has won numerous awards including World Gold Medal awards for Football’s Wall of Silence (2019), Islamophobia (2019), Spy Merchants (2018), and The Dark Side (2017). Among his many awards for The Poacher’s Pipeline is Winner, Foreign Press Association Media Awards, Environment Story of the Year (2017). 

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Peter Charley, deputy director of the global Al Jazeera Investigative Unit, joined the MECO Newsroom at the University of Sydney as guest speaker this semester.

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Editor-in-chief: Pam Walker Tutor in Media and Communications, University of Sydney, University of NSW; freelancer The South China Morning Post; communications teacher Sydney TAFE; editor, NewsLocal, The Fairfield Advance; former journalist and editor Courier Newspapers (Group Arts Editor, inaugural editor Central, editor and news editor The Wentworth Courier), editor The Glebe (Cumberland); journalist Fairfax Community Newspapers (the Fairfield City Champion); and editor AMG publications The City Hub, The Bondi View, The City News. Former media adviser for City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore.

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