Norman Swan

Norman Swan is a Scottish Australian medical doctor, journalist and radio producer.[1] Dr Swan was born in Scotland[2] and studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen[1] graduating in 1976.[3] Dr Swan moved to Australia, where he started work with the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1982.[1] He was the general manager of ABC Radio National for three years from 1990, and in that time recruited Phillip Adams, Geraldine Doogue and Wendy Harmer as program presenters.[2] Swan co-hosted the Radio National program Life Matters between 1996 and 2001.[3] Swan has produced and presented ABC radio program The Health Report from its inception in 1982.[2]

Dr Swan has been awarded the highest honour in Australian journalism and the Australian equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize—the Gold Walkley—for revealing scientific fraud conducted by well-known gynaecologist Dr William McBride. Dr Swan's investigation sent "shock waves throughout the medical world" and led to Dr McBride being de-registered.[1]

Dr Swan has won three Walkley awards, a UN media peace prize and the highest honour in Australian science journalism, the Michael Daley Award.[1]

Dr Swan's son Jonathan Swan is an award-winning national political correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age (Melbourne).[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Dr Norman Swan". ABC Radio National. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Profile: Norman Swan". The Sydney Morning Herald. 25 August 2010. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Honorary awards - Dr Norman Swan". University of Sydney. 13 June 2006. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "Fairfax journalist Jonathan Swan awarded prestigious Wallace Brown Young Achiever Award". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 May 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2015.