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Chris Reason is a senior reporter and presenter for ''Seven News'' in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was named Australian Journalist of the Year (2015) after being awarded the Graham Perkin Award for his coverage of the Lindt Cafe siege in December 2014. ==Career== Reason began his career in newspapers - first at ''The Redland Times'' then the daily metro newspaper ''The Sun'' in Brisbane. In 1989 he was signed by the Nine Network as a reporter for their News Bureau on the Gold Coast. Reason moved to ''Seven News'' in Brisbane as a Crime Reporter in 1990. He was appointed to Seven's London Bureau in 1992, the youngest correspondent in the network's history. In 1993 he was appointed Bureau Chief. After 4 years in the Bureau, he returned to Seven's Sydney Newsroom as a Senior Network Reporter. In 2002, he was announced as co-host of the revamped ''Sunrise'' alongside Melissa Doyle. In September 2002, it was discovered that Reason had multiple cancerous tumours in his abdomen. He was forced to take a leave of absence for six months to undertake chemotherapy and surgery.〔 He was replaced by David Koch. The cancer was a metastasis of the testicular cancer he had fought four years earlier. Reason missed an annual health check up in 2001 while covering the 11 September terror attacks in the United States, and he says it almost cost him his life. In multiple interviews since, Reason has warned young men to never miss a health check-up. In 2003, after recovering, Reason was appointed the presenter of ''Seven Morning News''. The following year, he was made presenter of ''Sunday Sunrise'' In 2005, he was named co-host of ''Weekend Sunrise'' alongside Lisa Wilkinson, but was later replaced by ''Deal or No Deal'' host Andrew O'Keefe. Reason returned to full-time reporting as Senior Network Correspondent. While reporting for ''Seven News'', Reason has filed stories from many of the world's hot spots - including Bosnia, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Afghanistan and the Pacific rim. He covered the Boxing Day Tsunami in Thailand and then Banda Aceh; the Fukushima nuclear disaster; Barack Obama's election; Nelson Mandela's funeral; the 11 September attacks; the 7/7 London terror attacks; the East Timor transition in 2000; Princess Diana's funeral; Schapelle Corby's sentencing; the Hong Kong handover; the Oscar Pistorius trial; the Kobe earthquake; the 2000 Fiji Coup; the 1997 Thredbo landslide; the Beaconsfield mine disaster and Prince William and Catherine's wedding. He has covered multiple Federal and State elections and eight Olympic Games. In 2015 he won Australian journalism's highest accolade - named the Journalist of the Year after winning the Graham Perkin Award for his coverage of the Lindt Cafe siege. He has won two Logie Awards for News Reporting and been a multiple Walkley finalist. Reason is officially a back-up presenter for many of the ''Seven News'' programs, including ''Seven Morning News'', ''Seven Afternoon News'' and ''Seven News Sydney''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris Reason」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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