WAMN News explained

WAMN News
Headquarters:	Perth, Western Australia
Owner:	West Australasian Media Network Pty Ltd
Founder:	Ivan Leung
Launch Date:	January 2013

WAMN News (also known as WAMN News Online or simply WAMN) is an Australian online news outlet based in Perth, Western Australia. It livestreams press conferences on its Facebook page, and airs a weekly news bulletin.^{[1] [2]}

History

WAMN News was founded by journalist Ivan Leung in January 2013. Leung had previously founded DHK News in 2007, which covered news in Perth and Hong Kong.^{[3] [4]}

Talk-back radio host Howard Sattler joined WAMN as a contributor in 2014 after being fired from radio station 6PR over a controversial interview with former Prime Minister Julia Gillard, in which he asked her whether her partner Tim Mathieson was gay.^{[5] [6]}

WAMN won the Communications Award at the 2021 Western Australian Multicultural Awards, hosted by the Western Australian government's Office of Multicultural Interests.^[7]

Former ABC political reporter Peter Kennedy joined WAMN in early 2022.^[8]

As of December 2023, WAMN has over 55,000 followers on Facebook.^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Indigenous death highlights urgency of WA homelessness crisis . National Indigenous Times.
2. Web site: Police shoot dead 16yo who stabbed man in WA . ABC Listen . 5 May 2024 . A picture captured from the scene in Willetton overnight by local media outlet WAMN News.
3. Web site: Students make headlines of their own . Murdoch University.
4. Web site: ABC 7.30 Report interviews Ivan Leung from DHK News . YouTube . DHKChannel.
5. Web site: Orr. Aleisha. 14 June 2013. Howard Sattler sacked by 6PR. WAtoday. en.
6. Web site: 11 June 2021. Former radio host Howard Sattler dies in Perth. www.abc.net.au. en-AU.
7. Web site: WA’s champions of multiculturalism . Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.
8. Web site: McGowan's Majority: Two Years On . 6 News Australia.
9. Web site: WAMN News . Facebook . WAMN News.