Shelley Gare
Shelley Gare (born 1952) is a Walkley award-winning Australian freelance journalist, editor and author. She has held some of Australia's most senior magazine editor positions including editor of both Good Weekend and Sunday Life.[1]
Early life and career
Gare was born Helen Shelley Gare in Carnarvon, Western Australia in 1952, the fourth and youngest child of public servant Frank Ellis Gare (Commissioner for Native Welfare for the State of Western Australia) and artist and novelist Nene Gare. Her brother is Arran Gare, metaphysician and environmental philosopher.
In 1954 the family moved from Carnarvon to Geraldton then in 1962 to Perth with her father's employment with the Native Welfare Department, where Shelley was educated at Santa Maria College, then trained as a cadet journalist on the Daily News. She moved to Sydney in her early 20s and became editor of Cleo magazine.[2][3]
She moved to London to work for Australian Consolidated Press's Fleet St bureau, then as deputy editor on Company magazine and finally as deputy editor on the Look section of The Sunday Times, returning to Australia in 1986, where, after working as an assistant editor on The Herald in Melbourne, and then as editor of Good Weekend, she eventually became the first woman deputy editor appointed to The Australian newspaper. Gare was responsible for all newspaper features. She was also a consultant editor on the start-up of WHO magazine.[4]
Gare was a founding editor of The Australian’s Review of Books, later called "The Australian Literary Review", for which she won a Walkley Award, a recognition of excellence in journalism. She is now a freelance journalist and regular contributor to a variety of publications.[4]
Her 2006 book The Triumph of the Airheads and the Retreat from Commonsense excoriated the shallowness of the contemporary press and general culture, with their emphasis on lifestyle supplements in preference to hard news and serious argument.[5][6]
In 2012 she became a Contributing Editor with the Australian Financial Review.
Articles
- "Death by Silence in the Writers' Combat Zone", July 2010, No. 36, Quadrant (magazine)
- "E-types reign in a rude new world", 14 December 2009, National Times
- "Making Trouble", August 2010, The Monthly
Books
- My Life as a Father by Ross Campbell, edited by Shelley Gare, Media 21 Publishing, Sydney, 2005, ISBN 1-876624-71-X (edited)
- Triumph of the Airheads, Media 21 Publishing, Sydney, 2006, ISBN 1-876624-54-X
References
- ↑ http://www.bandt.com.au/news/fairfax8217s-new-lease-on-ilifei
- ↑ Squarcini, Rosina (1999). "Nene Gare, a Biographical Study : Australian Novelist, 1919-1994". Research Online. Mt Lawley, WA: Edith Cowan University. p. 41. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
- ↑ Wilson-Clark, Charlie (16 February 2004). "He heralded a new era for Aborigines". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
- 1 2 Henningham, Nikki (5 September 2012). "Gare, Shelley". The Australian Women's Register. Melbourne: The National Foundation for Australian Women. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- ↑ Williams, Roy (14 November 2006). "The Triumph of the Airheads and the Retreat from Commonsense". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- ↑ Franklin, James (April 2007). "Chickens in Charge" (pdf). Quadrant. pp. 83–84. Retrieved 24 November 2016.