The 7.30 Report was an Australian nightly television current affairs program, that was shown on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at 7.30pm, Mondays–Thursdays. Its sister program, Stateline was shown at the same time on Friday nights.

In 2011, it was replaced by 7.30, a revamped current affairs program presented by Leigh Sales and Chris Uhlmann.^[1]

History[link]

The 7.30 Report began in January 1986, screening Tuesday to Friday evenings. The program extended to Mondays the following year.

Until the end of 1994 the program had separate editions for each state, presented by Alan Carpenter, Mary Delahunty, Quentin Dempster, Trisha Goddard, Sarah Henderson, Genevieve Hussey, John Jost, Leigh McClusky, Kelly Nestor and Andrew Olle. Kerry O'Brien took over as the presenter of the national program in 1995, with Maxine McKew serving as the main relief presenter until 2006.

O'Brien remained the editor and presenter of the program from the time it went national. He announced in 2010 that he would be leaving at the end of the year.^[2] He presented his final edition of the program on 9 December 2010.^[3]

Format[link]

The program usually comprises several pre-recorded items and live interviews, focusing on issues of national or global significance. The program has traditionally featured interviews with politicians.

Current reporters include political editor Heather Ewart, together with Deborah Cornwall, Greg Hoy, Mark Willacy, Michael Brissenden, Murray McLaughlin, Mary Gearin, Mike Sexton, John Taylor, Peter McCutcheon, Paul Lockyer, Matt Peacock, Lisa Whitehead, Natasha Johnson, David Mark, Genevieve Hussey, Mark Bannerman and Jonathan Harley.

Since January 2000, satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe have presented a (usually) weekly mock interview covering a topical issue.^[4] Dawe is the interviewer, while Clarke plays a prominent public figure, but unusually for satire, he deliberately makes no attempt to imitate the appearance, voice, or mannerisms of the person he portrays. When portraying Julia Gillard he placed a flower pot behind him to give the impression of him being a woman. These interviews are a continuation of the pair's work for A Current Affair, beginning in 1989, for which they have won a number of awards.

2011 changes[link]

The ABC announced in December 2010 that the program would return in 2011 in a new form, under the name 7.30.^[1] The revamped program is presented by Leigh Sales from Sydney. Chris Uhlmann is 7.30's political editor and Canberra presenter.

The ABC also announced that the state-based current affairs program Stateline would be folded into the 7.30 program. The change will see 7.30 extended to five nights a week, although Friday editions will continue to be presented locally and focus on state affairs.^[1]

See also[link]

• List of Australian television series
• List of Australian Broadcasting Corporation programs

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• The 7.30 Report at the National Film and Sound Archive

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Example of a front page of a report

A report is a textual work (usually of writing, speech, television, or film) made with the specific intention of relaying information or recounting certain events in a widely presentable form.

Written reports are documents which present focused, salient content to a specific audience. Reports are often used to display the result of an experiment, investigation, or inquiry. The audience may be public or private, an individual or the public in general. Reports are used in government, business, education, science, and other fields.

Reports such as graphics, images, voice, or specialized vocabulary in order to persuade that specific audience to undertake an action. One of the most common formats for presenting reports is IMRAD: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. This structure is standard for the genre because it mirrors the traditional publication of scientific research and summons the ethos and credibility of that discipline. Reports are not required to follow this pattern, and may use alternative patterns like the problem-solution format.

Additional elements often used to persuade readers include: headings to indicate topics, to more complex formats including charts, tables, figures, pictures, tables of contents, abstracts, summaries, appendices, footnotes, hyperlinks, and references.

Some examples of reports are: scientific reports, recommendation reports, white papers, annual reports, auditor's reports, workplace reports, census reports, trip reports, progress reports, investigative reports, budget reports, policy reports, demographic reports, credit reports, appraisal reports, inspection reports, military reports, bound reports, etc.

See also[link]

• Reporting
• Customer Relationship Management
• Data quality
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Decision Support System
• Global Reporting Initiative
• Management Information Systems
• [[Grey Literature International Steering

Committee]] International guidelines for the production of scientific and technical reports

References[link]

Reports or an explanation about them:

• Link, Morton and Hill, Winfrey (1970). Hill-Link Minority Report of the Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. Random House.
• United States Immigration Commission (1933). Abstracts Of Reports Of The Immigration Commission, With Conclusions And Recommendations And Views Of The Minority. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 1-4366-1613-1.

The process of writing reports:

• Blicq, Ronald (2003). "Technically-Write!". Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-114878-8.
• Gerson, Sharon and Gerson, Steven (2005). Technical Writing: Process and Product. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-119664-2.
• Lannon, John (2007). Technical Communication. Longman. ISBN 0-205-55957-3.

External links[link]

• GLISC - Guidelines for the production of scientific and technical reports

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Philip Freelon (born March 26, 1952), a native of Philadelphia, USA is an African American architect. He is best known as the co-designer (with Max Bond and David Adjaye) of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Some of his other projects include the Center for Civil & Human Rights, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture and the Museum of the African Diaspora. Freelon is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (and the recipient of their Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture), and a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Accredited Professional. He is married to six-time Grammy nominated jazz vocalist, Nnenna Freelon.

Biography[link]

Education[link]

Following graduation from North Carolina State University's College of Design with a Bachelor of Environmental Design (Architecture) and top design honors, he went on to earn his Master of Architecture degree from MIT. Freelon has served as an adjunct professor at the College of Design, North Carolina State University and has been a visiting critic/lecturer at Harvard University, MIT, the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Utah, the California College of the Arts, Kent State University (Florence Italy, program), Syracuse University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, among others. In 1989, Freelon was the recipient of the Loeb Fellowship and spent a year of independent study at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Freelon is currently a visiting Lecturer at MIT in the School of Architecture and Planning.^[1]

The Freelon Group[link]

Philip Freelon founded The Freelon Group in 1990. Since then, The Freelon Group has expanded to a sixty member architectural firm located in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. The Freelon Group offers specialized design expertise in the areas of Museum/Cultural Center, Higher Education and Science/Technology facilities. The firm has received over twenty-five regional, state and local AIA design awards including AIA North Carolina’s Outstanding Firm Award in 2001. Between 2006 and 2007, Freelon's designs were honored with seven AIA North Carolina design awards, an accomplishment never before achieved by one firm in a two year period. In 2008, The Freelon Group was recognized by Contract Magazine as The Designer of the Year. In 2009, along with partners Max Bond (of Davis Brody Bond Aedas) and David Adjaye (of Adjaye Associates), Freelon was selected by unanimous decision to design the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.^[2]

Family[link]

Philip is the grandson of pioneer African American impressionist Allan Randall Freelon, Sr. (1895–1960). He is married to 6-time Grammy nominee, Nnenna Freelon.^[3] He is the father of three children, Deen, Maya and Pierce.

Their son Pierce Freelon, is a Hip-Hop artist (in the group The Beast), a professor at North Carolina Central University and the founder of a website called Blackademics where has interviewed many notable figures such as Angela Davis, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, and Jesse Jackson.^[4] Deen Freelon is a doctoral candidate in Communications at the University of Washington, Seattle and the designer of the site. Daughter Maya Freelon Asante, is an award-winning visual artist and wife of filmmaker, author and activist, M.K. Asante, Jr.

References[link]

Sources[link]

• http://www.mkasante.com/
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• http://www.mayafreelon.com/