Kieza exits Courier Mail
By Jonas Lopez in Media News on Friday, 26th June 2020 at 3:51pm
Grantlee Kieza is moving on from regional paper The Courier-Mail.
He stated in a Tweet that his last article for the paper will be in the 27 June edition of QWeekend.
Kieza joined the Courier-Mail in 1980 at 17 years old, and built up a reputation in the sports journalism scene, especially in covering the latest developments in boxing. He also wrote for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, plus penned three books.
His work earned him two Queensland Media Awards, two Australian Sports Commission Awards, induction into the Australian Boxing Hall of Fame, and a Medal of the Order of Australia.
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