{{Short description|Australian journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Rex Jory | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = William Rex Jory | birth_date = {{circa|1944}}<!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = Adelaide | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Journalist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''William Rex Jory''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} is a retired Australian journalist. He was an associate editor of ''The Advertiser'', regular columnist for both ''The Advertiser'' and the ''Sunday Mail'' and leader writer for ''The Advertiser''.
Jory was born and educated in Adelaide and joined ''The News'' as a copy boy in 1959. In 1965, he moved to London, working with the BBC. He spent a year in South Africa and returned to Adelaide in 1970 as political writer for ''The News''. He was transferred to the Canberra bureau in 1978.
In 1983, he joined ''The Advertiser'' as a special writer. In 1984, he moved to ''The News'' and was made editor of the ''Sunday Mail''. In 1986, he returned to ''The Advertiser'', as political editor. In 1990, Jory was awarded a Jefferson Fellowship in the United States, and was appointed deputy editor of ''The Advertiser''. In 1997, he became a daily columnist.
Jory was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2014 Australia Day Honours for "service to journalism, and to the community of South Australia".<ref>{{Cite It's an Honour |ausawardid=1149254 |date=26 January 2014 |recipient=Mr William Rex JORY |award=Medal of the Order of Australia |postnominal=OAM |citation=For service to journalism, and to the community of South Australia. |accessdate=22 December 2020}}</ref>
Jory retired as a regular columnist in September 2019, 60 years and four months after starting as a copy boy at ''The News''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/rex-jory-its-been-a-hell-of-a-ride-thank-you-south-australia/news-story/efbb33e9e33adad0486354b36cddd31a |title=Rex Jory: It's been a hell of a ride, thank you South Australia |first=Rex |last=Jory |date=15 September 2019 |newspaper=The Advertiser |access-date=22 December 2020}}</ref>
==External links== * [http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/author/0,22623,5001192-5008583,00.html Rex Jory – AdelaideNow]
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