Chris Reason
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Chris Reason (born 1 October, 1965) is Network Reporter for Seven News in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He has also acted as anchor for many Seven News bulletins, including the morning bulletin, early news bulletin and Sydney's Seven News to name a few. He anchored the latter on weekends during the 2007-08 summer period.
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[edit] Early career
Reason began his career in newspapers - first The Redland Times then The Sun in Brisbane. He has also worked for Nine Network in the Gold Coast for a year.
[edit] Working with Channel Seven
Reason came to Seven News in 1990 in Brisbane as a crime reporter. Reason was appointed to Seven's London Bureau in 1992, the youngest in the network's history. In 1993 he, became Bureau Chief, a major promotion. Four years later, Reason returned to Australia, to Seven's Sydney newsroom as a Senior Network Reporter.
In 2002, Reason was announced as co-anchor of the revamped Sunrise alongside Melissa Doyle. In October, it was discovered that Reason had a cancerous tumour behind his kidney, forcing him to take a leave of absence. He was replaced by David Koch. Four years earlier he had undergone treatment for testicular cancer.
After recovering, the following year Reason became anchor of Seven's Morning News. He was then made anchor of Sunday Sunrise 2005, and later that year named co-host of Weekend Sunrise alongside Lisa Wilkinson, but Deal or No Deal host Andrew O'Keefe took over in March 2006.
While reporting for Seven News, Reason has filed stories from some of the world's hot spots - including Bosnia, Northern Ireland, the Middle East and the Pacific rim. He covered the Boxing Day Tsunami from Thailand and Banda Aceh, the September 11 attacks, the Kobe earthquake, Princess Diana's funeral, the Hong Kong handover, the 2000 Fiji Coup, the 1997 Thredbo landslide, the Beaconsfield mine disaster and the East Timor chaos in 2000. He has covered five Olympic Games. He has won a Logie Award for News Reporting and been a multiple Walkley finalist.
[edit] Personal life
Reason is married to Ten News presenter Kathryn Robinson. They became parents to twins, a boy and a girl, on Monday August 6. The birth was announced on Ten Early News, which Kath usually anchors, the following morning and the following evening on Seven News where Chris is a reporter.
| Preceded by Mark Beretta |
Sunrise anchor 2002 |
Succeeded by David Koch |
| Preceded by show created |
Weekend Sunrise anchor 2005-6 |
Succeeded by Andrew O'Keefe |
| Preceded by Chris Bath |
Sunday Sunrise anchor 2004-5 |
Succeeded by show ended |
| Preceded by Garry Wilkinson |
Seven Morning News anchor 2003 |
Succeeded by Chris Bath |
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