About Chris Reason
Chris Reason (born 1 October 1965) is a journalist, foreign correspondent and news anchor for the Seven Network Australia. He has been with the network for more than three decades, starting as Crime Reporter at Channel Seven in Brisbane in 1990 and going on to serve as European correspondent, then London bureau chief, and is today the network’s chief reporter. He has won six Walkley Awards, two Logies, numerous Kennedy Awards and the Graham Perkin ‘Australian Journalist of the Year Award’. It was the first of three times he was a finalist as “Australian Journalist of the Year”. Reason has reported on a range of national and international news events including the September 11 terror attacks, the 7/7 London bombings, the Boxing Day tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. He’s covered the wars in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Ukraine and Gaza (winning Walkleys for both Ukraine and Gaza) and was also dispatched to cover the deaths of Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth II; the elections of Barack Obama and Donald Trump; the coronation of King Charles; and the transitions of four Popes – John Paul II, Benedict, Francis and Leo. Back home, he has reported on the Thredbo landslide tragedy, the Beaconsfield mine collapse, Brisbane’s 2011 floods, Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires and most famously, the Lindt Cafe siege from the Channel 7 newsroom across the street in December 2014. He also won the Walkley for Investigative Journalism for his four-year inquiry into allegations of sex abuse surrounding the former Bishop of Broome Christopher Saunders. Reason has covered 12 Summer and Winter Olympic Games and in 2022 was awarded the prestigious Harry Gordon Memorial Prize for Olympic Reporting -- the only television journalist to do so. He's previously hosted all of Seven’s major news programs including Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise, the Morning and Afternoon News and the flagship 6PM bulletin.
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