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Bruce McAvaney honoured with Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award

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  Bruce McAvaney  image - Seven
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Revered broadcaster Bruce McAvaney has been honoured with the Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution to Australian sports broadcasting.

McAvaney was celebrated as the recipient of the award at the 25th annual Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards Dinner at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium.

He said he was deeply honoured to be recognised by his peers, and thanked his Channel 7 colleagues – both in front of and behind the cameras – for their support throughout his extraordinary career to date.

“It’s a huge honour and a bit daunting when you see who has come before you,”

“At my stage of life it does cause you to reflect on the last few decades, the great support you get as part of a broadcasting team and how to make the most of the time ahead.

“But truly, I feel like a very lucky kid who’s had the opportunity to fulfil a dream.”

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Each year, the Melbourne Press Club honours a journalist or journalists whose career has left an extraordinary mark on Victorian and Australian journalism. The honour, presented at the annual Quill Awards dinner each March, is bestowed at the discretion of the MPC board.

In recognition of his outstanding career spanning four decades, this latest award follows McAvaney’s induction into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2002, and in the same year his Medal of the Order of Australia.

7NEWS was also recognised at tonight’s ceremony with the Quill for Breaking News Coverage for its rolling coverage of the guilty verdict of George Pell. 7NEWS was first to report the news live from outside the court. The judges commended the thorough and on-the-spot reporting by all the team including Mike Amor, Sharnelle Vella and Nick McCallum.

And 7NEWS cameraman Josh Steele was highly commended in the TV Camera Work (Creative Camera Work) category for ‘Forgotten Drought’.

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