Bernard Zuel

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Bernard Zuel
BornAndre Bernard Zuel
Beau-Bassin Rose-Hill, Mauritius
OccupationMusic journalist
LanguageEnglish

Bernard Zuel is an Australian music journalist. Zuel wrote for Fairfax Media newspapers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald since 1992. He became their senior music writer and reviewer. Zuel is a judge of the Australian Music Prize award. At the end of June 2017 he left Fairfax Media to become a freelance journalist and also taught music journalism.

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Early life and education

Bernard Zuel was born in Rose-Hill, Mauritius. [1] [2] In the late 1960s, with his family, father Cyril, mother Irlande and two younger siblings, he relocated to Australia and settled in Sydney. [1] [2]

In the podcast Penmanship (2016), Zuel told Andrew McMillen how he wrote his first review when he was 20-years-old on R.E.M.'s Fables of the Reconstruction (1985), which he submitted to street press. [3] He was surprised to find it was published and worked for street press before he got a job as a general news reporter at The Penrith Press . He worked there for a few years before starting at The Sydney Morning Herald in 1992, where he became the senior music writer and reviewer. [4] [5]

Zuel regularly talks music on ABC local radio and appears on The Right Note. After 25 years at The Sydney Morning Herald, he left in June 2017 to become a freelance journalist at his website and to teach music journalism. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Zuel, Bernard (25 September 2010). "A Place Called Home". The Sydney Morning Herald . Fairfax Media . Retrieved 12 September 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Zuel Andre Cyril born 4 November 1939; Marie Irelande born 11 August 1938; Andre Bernard born 21 January 1965; Marie Roscane born 9 July 1967 – British". National Archives of Australia. 19 August 2003. Retrieved 12 September 2013. Item details for: A446, 1966/32161.
  3. ↑ McMillen, Andrew (20 April 2016). "Penmanship Podcast Episode 22: Bernard Zuel, 2016". penmanshippodcast.com. Archived from the original on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "Bernard Zuel". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  5. 1 2 Knox, Mitch (13 June 2017). "Veteran Music Journo Bernard Zuel to Depart Fairfax Media at Month's End". TheMusic. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
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