Bernard Zuel

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Bernard Zuel
BornAndre Bernard Zuel
1965 (age 5859)
Beau-Bassin Rose-Hill, Mauritius
OccupationMusic journalist
LanguageEnglish

Bernard Zuel (born 1965, Rose-Hill, Mauritius) is an Australian music journalist. Zuel wrote for Fairfax Media newspapers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald from 1992 to 2017. 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 1965 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. Bernard attended Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield. [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.