John Briears collection

fonds

1921 - 1982

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

447945

3 boxes - 0.51 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
Textual Records - (photocopy)
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (typescript with manuscript annotations and corrections)
Textual Records - (typescript, photocopy)
Textual Records - (typescript, carbon)
Textual Records - (typescript, processed)
Clippings
Clippings - (photocopy)
Textual Records - (printed)
Photographs

John Briears (1905-1990) commenced his journalistic career in Sydney with Smith's Newspapers Limited, 1925-1931. A stint followed as private secretary to H. M. Hawkins, M.L.C., from June to November 1932. He then joined Sydney Newspapers Limited where he was Chief Sub-Editor of The Australian Women's Weekly when it began in 1933, and was later promoted to News Editor and Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief, George Warnecke, who became a lifelong friend. Until 1941 Briears worked in various administrative and editorial positions with Consolidated Press Limited, which had been created from the merger of Sydney Newspapers Limited and Associated Newspapers Limited in 1936. From September 1941 to September 1942 he was employed on the news staff of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, first as parliamentary roundsman then as supervisor of news bulletins in Canberra. He was appointed an accredited war correspondent at General Macarthur's headquarters in Brisbane, where he was later employed as an Operational Censor by the Department of Information's Publicity Censorship. From July 1944 to July 1946 he was a member of the Department's Canberra staff, and from late 1946 to 1950 he worked in the Australian News and Information Bureau, New York. Briears settled back in Sydney where he served as Editor of Newspaper News, 1953-1960, and of Manufacturers Monthly, 1961-1971.

Papers, 1921-1982
Further photographs and photonegatives currently with Pictures Section

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