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Newspaper reporting during WWI & Great Depression - Jean Chapman - 23 July 1988:
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SummaryInterview by Robert Kerr in 1988 with Jean Chapman about newspaper reporting during WWI and the Great Depression. Jean talks about her father, the late Alexander Reginald Wilkie who was a journalist in Newcastle prior to WWI and during the great depression. Wilkie was employed by the Sydney Morning Herald and posted to Newcastle in about 1909, where he married and Jean was born. During this time Mr Wilkie did police rounds and also reported on the many shipwrecks off Nobbys. He would row out in a lifeboat to get first hand information on the drama taking place, then later interview the survivors in hospital. While in Newcastle at this time, Mr Wilkie and a group of fellow journalists went fishing in a rowboat, with a keg of beer, and by the time that they returned to shore, they had formed the Newcastle branch of the Australian Journalists Association. In 1912, Mr Wilkie was recalled to Sydney for several years, where he became an acquaintance of Billie Hughes. Mr Wilkie was awarded the Gold Honour Badge by the Australian Journalists Association, and every year there is a luncheon held in his honour. During the depression he moved back to Newcastle, where he worked as sub editor on the Newcastle Herald, and as a treat for his daughters, he took them on a visit to Legges Camp on the Myall Lakes. The trip from Newcastle by mail car took all afternoon, and they were entertained and made welcome by Mrs and Mr legge.
SubjectJournalism Newcastle Herald Australian Journalist AssociationWWIIWWIGreat DepressionSydney Morning Hearld NewspapersPersonKerr, RobertChapman , JeanInterview logA7465(viii)_ChapmanDate Created1988-07-23Location[1] IdentifierA7465(viii)_Chapman A
SubjectJournalism Newcastle Herald Australian Journalist AssociationWWIIWWIGreat DepressionSydney Morning Hearld NewspapersPersonKerr, RobertChapman , JeanInterview logA7465(viii)_ChapmanDate Created1988-07-23Location[1] IdentifierA7465(viii)_Chapman Aloading google map....
Newspaper reporting during WWI & Great Depression - Jean Chapman - 23 July 1988: , [A7465(viii)_Chapman A]. Living Histories, accessed 25/04/2025, https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/75563