MikeK
Personal Information
- Name
- Michael Keats
- Bio
Michael Keats is a journalist with more than 50 years experience as a foreign correspondent and in editorial management. In his career, he reported from 88 of the 192 member countries of the United Nations.
Mike began his career in 1952 as a copy boy with the now defunct Argus newspaper and the Australian United Press (AUP) news agency. He then worked on the Brisbane Telegraph (also defunct) and in the Queensland Network Newsroom of the 4BC group of radio stations.
He left Australia in 1956 and ended up working in London for the U.S. agency United Press, which became United Press International, and wandered through Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia for the next 35 years covering the major events of that era.
In 1991, he left UPI to work as a UN spokesman/press officer in Africa then in the Balkans during fighting in Bosnia-Hercegovina before becoming Managing Editor of Inter Press Service (IPS) -- a news agency providing contextualized news and analyses on global issues as they affect the developing world.
In early 2000, Mike went to Kosovo, after the 1999 invasion of Serbia by NATO forces, as the public information officer for UNMIK - the UN administration in that territory. He then went to Geneva in 2002 , to head the press unit of the International Labor Organization and later served in the ILO’s Washington DC office before his return to Melbourne in 2005.
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- Website
- http://www.newaustraliamedia.org
History
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