Michael Lund
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Michael Lund is an award winning Australian journalist at 612 ABC Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia.
Lund was a winner in the 2004 Queensland Media Awards for his report on the pitch invasion at the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He was also a finalist and "highly commended" in the Walkley Awards 2002 Winners for his report on Peter Hollingworth and Hollingworth's dealings with child abuse allegations when Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.
Lund was born in 1965 in Horbury, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has worked for a number of news organisations including the BBC, the Bristol Evening Post, the Sheffield Star, and other local newspapers in the UK.
He was student of mathematics and applied physics at the then Manchester Polytechnic and pure mathematics at the University of Liverpool, and studied journalism at Stradbroke College in Sheffield, UK.
Lund is married to Ann Lund, a fellow journalist and founder of Media Affair.
[edit] Awards
- Queensland Media Award 2004 Best Sports Report - Electronic Media, "Pitch Invasion"
- Walkley Award 2002 Highly Commended for "What Hollingworth Knew"