{{Short description|Australian journalist (1945–2000)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Paul Lyneham | image = | caption = | birth_name = Rodney Paul Lyneham | birth_date = {{birth date|1945|8|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|2000|11|24|1945|8|13|df=y}} | death_place = Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia | education = Australian National University | occupation = Political journalist | years_active = 1969–2000 | spouse = Dorothy Horsfield | partner = | children = Chloe Lyneham<br/>Joel Lyneham<br/>Mathew Lyneham | credits = ''The 7.30 Report''<br />''60 Minutes'' }}
'''Rodney Paul Lyneham''' (13 August 1945<ref name="nla.gov.au">{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/902154 |title=Papers of Paul Lyneham, 1999–2002 [manuscript] | National Library of Australia |publisher=Catalogue.nla.gov.au |accessdate=20 October 2011}}</ref> – 24 November 2000)<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s216478.htm |title=7.30 Report – 24/11/2000: Lyneham remembered for humour and hard questions |publisher=ABC |location=Australia |date=24 November 2000 |accessdate=20 October 2011}}</ref> was an Australian newspaper journalist, commentator and radio and television presenter.
==Biography== Lyneham was born in Melbourne<ref name="autogenerated2">[http://www.npc.org.au/journalismAwards/paulLynehamAward.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015144933/http://www.npc.org.au/journalismAwards/paulLynehamAward.html |date=15 October 2009 }}</ref> in 1945, growing up there and in Canberra<ref name="nla.gov.au"/> where he graduated from the Australian National University.<ref name="nla.gov.au"/> During his time as a student he was the lead vocalist in the band ''The Bitter Lemons'' which recorded the independently released single "Canberra Blues" in 1965.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/05/18/3220323.htm|title=RareCollections: Australian cities and towns in song|publisher=ABC Canberra|date=20 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Marks|first1=Ian D.|last2=McIntyre|first2=Iain|title=Wild about You!: The Sixties Beat Explosion in Australia and New Zealand|page=222|year=2011|publisher=Verse Chorus Press|isbn=9781891241284}}</ref>
He worked as a journalist at ''The Australian'' and ''The Canberra Times'' newspapers before joining the ABC in 1969 and spending a period of time as London, UK correspondent.<ref name="autogenerated2"/> Whilst in London, Lyneham met the author Dorothy Horsfield, with whom he went on to have three children.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://abc.gov.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2002/564657.htm |title=Life Matters – 27 May 2002 – First Person – Paul Lyneham: A Memoir – Ep 6 |publisher=Abc.gov.au |date=27 May 2002 |accessdate=20 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929115716/http://abc.gov.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2002/564657.htm |archivedate=29 September 2011 }}</ref> Lyneham joined commercial television, working for Channel Seven as a foreign correspondent including reporting on the Falklands War. After returning to Australia while living in Canberra Lyneham worked on Sydney radio station 2BL in a segment with his close friend Andrew Olle; they were a double act conversing about politics with Lyneham playing the role of the funny man.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/olle-john-andrew-27542/text35932|title=John Andrew Olle (1947–1995)|work=The Guardian Sydney|via=Obituaries Australia|page=17|first=Bob|last=Ellis|author-link=Bob Ellis|date=15 December 1995|access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Radio's dynamic duo: will they return?|work=The Sydney Morning-Herald|date=13 November 1995|page=7|first=Tony|last=Squires}}</ref> He also reported for ''The 7.30 Report'' before joining Channel Nine and ''60 Minutes''.<ref name="nla.gov.au"/>
==Death == Lyneham died of lung cancer on 24 November 2000<ref name="autogenerated1"/> in Canberra.<ref name="nla.gov.au"/> On 20 February 2002 then-Federal Treasurer Peter Costello launched the biography of Lyneham, ''Paul Lyneham – A Memoir'', written by his widow Dorothy Horsfield,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lm/stories/s566981.htm |title=First Person – Life Matters – 30/5/2002: First Person – Paul Lyneham: A Memoir – Ep 9 |publisher=ABC |location=Australia |date=30 May 2002 |accessdate=20 October 2011}}</ref> at the National Press Club, Canberra.<ref>{{cite web|author=Peter Costello |url=http://ministers.treasury.gov.au/DisplayDocs.aspx?doc=speeches/2002/001.htm&pageID=005&min=phc&Year=2002&DocType=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406172534/http://ministers.treasury.gov.au/DisplayDocs.aspx?doc=speeches/2002/001.htm&pageID=005&min=phc&Year=2002&DocType=1 |archive-date=6 April 2011 |title=Speeches – Launch of "Paul Lyneham – A Memoir", National Press Club [20/02/2002] |publisher=Treasurer.gov.au |accessdate=20 October 2011}}</ref> Annually since 2002, the National Press Club has also awarded the Paul Lyneham Award for excellence in journalism with only members of the federal parliamentary press gallery being eligible for the award.<ref>[http://www.npc.org.au/assets/files/documents/journalismAwards/2009Lyneham%20Award%20entrant%20info.pdf] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015150155/http://www.npc.org.au/assets/files/documents/journalismAwards/2009Lyneham%20Award%20entrant%20info.pdf |date=15 October 2009 }}</ref>
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