Former ABC journalist Tim Bowden – who died on Sunday, aged 87 — discovered journalism as a teenager, sneaking into the back row of the theatre in 1950s Hobart to watch Cinesound newsreels, long before television was invented.
He worked at the national broadcaster on radio and screens for decades, including as the first executive producer of PM"Some of us used to sit there a bit longer than we should because in those days was very difficult with any sort of privacy," he joked." Tim was part of the fabric of the ABC for decades and made a huge contribution to the national public broadcaster and to the nation," ABC managing director David Anderson said.
"He always told me when we used to talk about journalism to keep the English language simple and have a sense of humour," he told ABC Hobart.Bowden grew up in Tasmania and after graduating from the University of Tasmania in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts degree he headed for the UK where he worked as a producer and radio interviewer with the BBC's Pacific Service.
"But I've always been a happy traveller in journalism which … gets you into all kinds of situations that you otherwise would have had a snowflakes chance in hell of experiencing." Next up was a stint in the US where Bowden covered the era's most significant stories including violent demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago.
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