Powlett Express editor Tom Gannon was loved and hated in equal measure, but nobody wanted to miss what he was writing about.
By Carolyn Landon
Tom Gannon became a newspaperman at a young age, when, during WWII his father took him out of St Patrick’s College in Sale to work for him at the family newspaper in Wonthaggi.
When he entered the newsroom to work alongside his father, Tom Senior, he represented the third generation of Gannon newspapermen in Gippsland. His grandfather, Malachy, established the Korumburra Advocate in 1899, and his father took over the Powlett Express in 1912.
Tom Gannon became a newspaperman at a young age, when, during WWII his father took him out of St Patrick’s College in Sale to work for him at the family newspaper in Wonthaggi.
When he entered the newsroom to work alongside his father, Tom Senior, he represented the third generation of Gannon newspapermen in Gippsland. His grandfather, Malachy, established the Korumburra Advocate in 1899, and his father took over the Powlett Express in 1912.