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Paul Barry (Paul James Barry) was born on 24 February, 1952 in England, is a British–Australian journalist. Discover Paul Barry's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Paul James Barry
Occupation Journalist, newsreader & TV presenter
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 24 February, 1952
Birthday 24 February
Birthplace England
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1952

Paul James Barry (born 24 February 1952) is an English-born, Australian-based journalist, newsreader and television presenter, who has won many awards for his investigative reporting.

He previously worked for the BBC on numerous programs, before emigrating to Australia.

He is from Underriver and went to Solefield School, and Sevenoaks School.

Barry studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford.

At Exeter College, Oxford he captained the university golf team.

Barry started his journalistic career in London as an economics correspondent for the weekly magazine Investors Chronicle.

1978

In 1978, he joined the BBC as a reporter for The Money Programme, Newsnight, and then Panorama.

1986

In 1986, he moved to Australia and started work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

1987

From 1987 to 1994, Barry worked as an investigative reporter for the ABC's flagship current affairs program Four Corners specialising in economic matters, government departmental failures and corporate governance.

1993

A series of reports on disgraced businessman Alan Bond (and his company Bond Corporation) brought his work to national prominence in 1993.

He also wrote the book The Rise and Fall of Alan Bond and a TV report on the Wittenoom industrial disaster, "Blue Death".

1995

In 1995, Barry joined the Seven Network to present a short-lived news program The Times.

1997

He was later the presenter of the current affairs program Witness in 1997.

2000

He then returned to the ABC to host the Media Watch program in 2000.

He was effectively sacked from this show by ABC head Jonathan Shier after a controversial interview with ABC chairman Donald McDonald on the subject of government funding for the ABC.

2001

In 2001, Barry published a book, Going for Broke – How Alan Bond Got Away with It.

For the next two years he wrote for The Sydney Morning Herald, winning an additional Walkley Award exposing a tax scam involving prominent barristers in Sydney.

He has served as a Walkley Award judge and on a past Walkley advisory board.

He also wrote a book Rich Kids, documenting the collapse of One.Tel.

2004

In 2004 he moved to the Nine Network to work as an investigative reporter for 60 Minutes.

2006

In 2006, Barry released a biography on Australian cricketer Shane Warne, called Spun Out.

Extracts of the book were published in The Age's Good Weekend magazine, and some of the content was controversial.

2009

During October 2009, Barry was the subject of criticism from Australian business identities for his 2009 unauthorised biography of media and gambling mogul James Packer.

The book details relations between the younger Packer and his father Kerry, citing anonymous sources as stating the pair had a difficult relationship, and that James was "relieved" by his father's death.

Business leaders and friends of the Packers including former Nine Network CEO Eddie McGuire and mining tycoon Andrew Forrest defended James Packer.

Upon launching the book, Barry dismissed the criticism, calling the book "fair" and "considered".

Barry has been a contributor to Crikey, an online magazine published by Private Media (in which he has a minority share).

2010

However, in August 2010, Barry acted as Media Watch's temporary host for three months while Jonathan Holmes took long-service leave.

He joined Crikey in December 2010, and was given around A$152,000 2012 worth of new shares of Private Media in June 2012.

2011

In February 2011, Alan Bond published a rebuttal of an article written by Barry in December 2010 about Bond's investment in Global Diamond Resources Plc.

In August 2011 Barry was appointed as a senior writer at Private Media's The Power Index, "a free website [which] offers daily news, views and features about power and influence in Australia."

2013

On 3 July 2013, Barry returned as the host of Media Watch following the earlier decision of Jonathan Holmes to leave the show.

On 6 August 2021, Barry was injured when he was hit by a car while bicycling to work, causing him to take some time off Media Watch to recover from his injuries.

The ABC sent over Jeremy Fernandez and Janine Perrett to fill in for him on the program while on recovery.

Barry subsequently returned to hosting the program on 30 August 2021.

When conservative broadcaster Andrew Bolt described Barry as "of the Left" upon his re-appointment to the Media Watch program in 2013, Barry said: "I would certainly describe myself as to the left of Andrew Bolt, so on that basis I am left-wing. But in no other basis do I think I’m left-wing. I believe in the free market, I believe in freedom of speech, I believe actually in privatisation, I believe in an awful lot of things that would make me a free-marketeer and, you know, a Liberal."

2014

In 2014, Barry told Media Watch he had voted for Liberal Malcolm Turnbull as his local MP in the 2013 Election.

2018

When Turnbull resigned as Prime Minister ahead of a leadership ballot in 2018, Barry's op-ed on Media Watch, called the Liberal challenge to his leadership "madness", and endorsed the analysis of Fairfax's Peter Hartcher that Turnbull's challenger Peter Dutton was "poison" and Kevin Rudd's analysis that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is a "cancer on Australian democracy".

Barry denounced a "cabal of conservative commentators" including Tony Abbott supporters Alan Jones, Ray Hadley, Paul Murray, Peta Credlin, Andrew Bolt and Rowan Dean for criticising Turnbull's leadership.