About photo-journalist John Le Fevre & contact details

About photo-journalist John Le Fevre & contact details
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John Le Fevre April 2018

Name: John Le Fevre
Hometown: Melbourne, Australia
Occupation: Photo-journalist, editor, PR consultant, SEO, SEM, SNM specialist, and deejay.
Email: photo_journ[AT]photo-journ[DOT]com
Follow me on Twitter: @fotojourn

 

I started working as a journalist at Australian Photographic & News Service (APNS) in 1975 and completed a four-year cadetship in journalism and press photography.

In the mid 80s I worked on high technology trade press (Computing Australia, MacNews Australia, MacUser Australia) before starting my own full-service above and below the line marketing and public relations consultancy, JLF Promotions in 1990.

For a decade it serviced some of the biggest names in the high technology sector in Australia (Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Prime, Fujitsu, Platinum Software, Adaptive Electronics, etc).

In 1992 I stood as an Independent candidate in the Victorian State election for the seat of Wantirna, attracting 9.4 per cent of the vote.

The Walkley Award finalist certificate awarded to John Le Fevre in 1995 for coverage of the Ebola outbreak in Zaire
The Walkley Award finalist certificate awarded to John Le Fevre in 1995 for coverage of the Ebola outbreak in Zaire for The Australian Colour magazine

At the same time I continued my journalism career, writing on topics where there was no conflict with any of the PR accounts my company was handling, spending increasing periods overseas until its sale in 1994.

These included: engineering, construction, commodities, infrastructure, oil & gas, tourism, healthcare, transportation, human rights, developing nations’ issues, business, investigative, and general feature writing.

In 1994 a planned two day trip to Rwanda ended up in a stay of more than 150 days during which the country tore itself apart. The following year I parachuted into the Ebola outbreak in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo; DRC) where my story and photos Fever Fever for The Australian Colour Magazine saw me receive a finalist award in the 1995 Walkley Awards.

In 1999 I covered the Independence referendum in East Timor, staying for about three years before moving to Indonesia where I established and ran a news and photo bureau for an international news and photo agency.

I also opened a guest house and nightclub on Gili Trawangan, continuing the deejaying I had started in the early 90s. I play house, tribal, progressive house, trance, hard trance, psy trance, and hard dance. As a deejay I regularly played in Bali and Lombok, as well as at my own club, in addition to several international tours with some big-name clubbing music promoters.

 

I have spent considerable time working in Africa and Asia, with stints in the Middle East, the USA, and England, and have held the position of bureau chief, editor, news editor, CoS, copy editor, and chief copy editor.

 

Significant events I have covered over the years include:

  • 1985 Mad Max Noble Park police killings and hunt
  • 1986 Russell Street police bombing
  • 1990 Operation Desert Shield
  • 1991 Operation Desert Storm
  • 1991 Election riots (pillage) in Zaire
  • 1994 Rwandan genocide
  • 1995 Ebola outbreak in Zaire (from start to finish)
  • 1999 Independence referendum and violence in East Timor
  • 2004 Asian Tsunami
  • 2009 Songkran riots in Bangkok
  • 2010 Battle for Bangkok protests
  • 2013 Anti-democracy putsch in Thailand
  • 2014 Thailand coup

I have produced style guides for use by journalists and editors. and in the past was active on the Australian Journalists Association (AJA) (subsequently absorbed by the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) freelance committee. I write my own text, shoot my own stills, and also shoot and edit videos.

1st Runner-up trophy for social media impact during the #GoThailandGoAsean Media Fam Trip in October, 2015
1st Runner-up trophy for social media impact during the #GoThailandGoAsean Media Fam Trip in October, 2015 John Le Fevre

I have experience at content creation, development and management, SEO and keyword implementation, as well as in the implementation of social network marketing (SNM) strategies designed to increase website traffic.

This blog contains topics that I find interesting, with some articles dating back to 1996. Often the stories here are the full, original versions of articles published elsewhere, or material that was produced in excess of that required for articles published elsewhere.

Sadly, all of my historic photos were destroyed by the thieving, manipulative and unaccountable State Trustees, who removed them from their place of storage at my parents house and disposed of them.

No payment is received for content appearing on this blog (See: Blog disclosure policy)

I hope you find the topics interesting and informative. Backlinks and pingbacks are welcome from other sites, but the wholesale lifting / copying of content is not.

Unless acknowledged otherwise I, John Le Fevre, hold the copyright to all material on this website.

For questions about this blog, please contact photo_journ[AT]photo-journ[DOT]com.

Articles about John Le Fevre

The House Style Guide

Every time a journalist writes an article they have the potential of having their material read by millions of people. It is a privilege that goes with the role of labelling oneself a journalist.

The House Style Guide by John Le Fevre
Download a PDF version of The House Style Guide by clicking on the cover image above. Download will open in a new tab. John Le Fevre

The privilege also carries with it a degree of responsibility. Responsibility to not only report on the subject matter truthfully and without unnecessary bias, but also a responsibility to use clear and concise language free of ambiguity and clichés to ensure the maximum number of people possible have a clear understanding of all of the aspects being reported on.

Clear storytelling and language is at the heart of good journalism. Rather than being a luxury, it is an obligation.

Newspapers and news agencies use style guides such as this one to help ensure that where there are variants in spelling, the use of acronyms and so forth, a consistent approach is adopted to help in disseminating a sense of rationality and authority in the use of language.

It is of little relevance whether you are writing for a capital city daily newspaper, or a neighbourhood community newsletter, consistency and the use of the correct words and grammar will vastly improve the degree to what you are writing is understood.

Editors and and sub-editors (copy editors) should be aware that they can do no greater disservice to the text before them and the writer, the reader, and the publication, than to impose their own preferences for words based on a pedantic insistence on grammar as it used to be taught in school. Doing so runs the risk of destroying nuances and possibly even the flow of a piece.

The House Style Guide began as a collection of notes and loose-leaf pages in the 90s and was eventually pulled into its current form in the mid-2000’s. The primary aim was to have a resource that journalists and sub-editors could reach for when they wanted to check word usage or spelling, or needed some basic information about a country or region they were writing on. At the time of its inception the Internet was in its infancy and not every newsroom, let alone every journalist in a newsroom, had online access.

It was additionally designed to provide basic information on writing and journalism for new hires, those wishing to pursue a career in journalism, or people wishing to become contributors to publications I worked on.

In addition to many pages of words, their meanings and usage, the reader will also find sections on traditional proofreading and markup, as well as publication production. The country sections at the end of the book are hopelessly out of date, and are superfluous in an era of almost constant online access. They been left in for historic reasons.

You can download your own version of The House Style Guide by clicking the cover image on the right. It is provided for information purposes only. Some content may no longer be accurate.

Over the years

 

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1992

John Le Fevre 1992 Victorian state election result for the seat of Wantirna
John Le Fevre 1992 Victorian election result. Despite having only a very small team I was able to letterbox the entire electorate twice in the lead up to polling day. However, on election day I was only able to staff three polling booths. Achieving 9.4 per cent of the primary vote was a good result in an election that was all about removing Labor’s Joan Kirner, and well above the 7.36 per cent Independent candidates attracted overall. Wikipedia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Parachute training with the Royal Thai Air Force Wing 5 in Prachuap Khiri Khan on a #GoThailandGoAsean media fam trip October 10, 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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13 Responses to "About photo-journalist John Le Fevre & contact details"

  1. lily   August 23, 2023 at 1:26 pm

    hI John, did you used to have a business named Sports Fusion? along St kilda Road I think i worked for you

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  2. ELMO   June 29, 2010 at 6:28 am

    HI JOHN,

    YES OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS IT HAS BEEN GREAT FOLLOWING YOU ON TWITTER AND SEEING THAT MOST OF OUR VIEWS ARE ON THE SAME PAGE, NOT SURE IF THAT IS A GOOD THING.

    I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME OF YOUR FOOTAGE ONE DAY.

    I AM IN RACHABURRI, NOT SO FAR FROM PATTAYA, AND MIGHT NEEND AN EXCUSE FOR A DRINK AND TO VISIT THAT PLACE.

    WELL I HOPE TO ADD MORE STUFF TO MY BLOG, I DON’T HAVE ANY BACKLINKS YET, SO PLEASE BE THE FIRST

    REGARDS

    THE CLOWN

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  3. Paul Wagner   May 25, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    John – Quite surprised to stumble upon a reference to my own paintings and BKK photos on Twitter – or anywhere. Those picasaweb pics are from my badly neglected blog:

    RE:
    @MediaWar The photos? It opened ok 4 me just now.
    12:53 AM May 24th via Seesmic in reply to MediaWar

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  4. Marc   April 12, 2010 at 12:53 am

    Hey John, was good to catch up with you. I am back in Australia now. Keep your head down and dont get hurt. Catch you on skype

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    • John Le Fevre   April 12, 2010 at 12:56 am

      Hi Marc,
      Yes it was great to catch up with you. Very impressive how you handle all of those flower deliveries to even small villages. Sure your service is making lots of people happy.

      Cheers,

      John

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  5. Zhu Li   May 13, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    hi John. i’ve read your article aoubt Thai tourism and find the data and information there very comprehensive and detailed. it helped me a lot, thank you. i myself am working in Bangkok as a journalist, a green hand though.
    i agree with your oppinion about the riot on April 13 and 14. i don’t believe the soldiers were shooting all blank bullets, like the gov’t claimed. i saw some video clip from red-shirts.

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    • John Le Fevre   May 14, 2009 at 12:15 am

      Thanks for reading and I’m glad you found the information useful. I hope you come back again.

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  6. 2ploenchit   May 11, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    John, hi. Nice to know you. Just commenting on the ‘Monk witnesses shooting at people’ story. As I understood soldiers were shooting to disperse the rioting red-shirts by shooting BLANKS, so apparently they were aiming at them to make it APPEAR they were shooting real ammo at them.

    If the red-shirts had been informed the army would only use blanks, then it wouldn’t have had much of an impact on them would it? They’d just keep on rioting, wouldn’t they?

    Thanks for your great work,

    Freyk

    P.S, I live in Bang Buathong Village, 20 minutes from the Big Mango by car. What’s your favoutite hang-out? Maybe we could have a beer somtum ehr, I mean sometime.

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    • John Le Fevre   May 11, 2009 at 8:00 pm

      Hello Freyk,
      Thanks for your comment. There is no doubt that some of the soldiers were firing blanks, paper bullets or training rounds, whatever you want to call them, however it is impossible for an M16 to fire on semi-automatic or automatic mode with a Blank Firing Attachment in the end of the barrel to capture and return the exploded gas to return the firing mechanism. None of the M16s seen on that day were fitted with a BFA yet many were able to fire in semi-automatic and automatic mode. The only way this is possible is with (1) live ammunition or (2) a BFA attachment. I’ve also copied your comment to the relevant story so other people can see this reply.

      Send me an email or tweet when you are coming up and we’ll have that beer – somewhere.
      Thanks again for reading.

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  7. thai student   April 22, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    Thank you for the article :-)

    Reply
  8. Sara Milee   April 19, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    I have read your article on the Thai Songkarn riot 13-14 April 2009 on the following site. Would you please clarify how you was able to contact this monk? Did he himself come to you? If he didn’t come to you how could you go to find that this monk could tell the mentioned story?

    Monk – I saw Thai army shoot monk and others at Din Daeng (video)

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    • John Le Fevre   April 19, 2009 at 3:53 pm

      Thanks for reading. I was informed by people the monk was claiming to have seen something at Din Daeng and taken to meet him.

      Reply

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