Peter Charley

Peter Charley began his career as a reporter on the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sydney Sun newspapers. He later worked as an on-air current affairs reporter and producer at the Seven Network before moving to New York, where he orked as associate producer at Sixty Minutes and as a reporter for National Public Radio. He was appointed show producer of the weekly, current affairs program The Reporters before working as executive producer of the ABC's Lateline then SBS's Dateline. In 2014, Peter took up the role of executive producer of Al Jazeera's North American investigative unit based in Washington DC. A BAFTA finalist, he is the recipient of countless Australian and international awards for his journalism, including seven New York Festivals gold medals and two Walkleys. For his documentary How to Sell a Massacre, he received the Kennedy Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, the Walkley Scoop of the Year Award and his seventh New York Festival gold medal.