Robert Gottliebsen

Robert Gottliebsen has spent more than 30 years writing and commentating about business and investment in Australia. He has won the Walkley award and Australian Journalist of the Year Award, two of journalism’s highest honours.
In 1974 Gottliebsen started the Chanticleer column in the Australian Financial Review which is still running more than a quarter of a century later. In 1980 he handed it to a successor. For most of the next two decades the column was written by journalists that he had helped train. In 1981 Gottliebsen founded BRW magazine and helped build the weekly business magazine readership to the highest in the world on a per capita basis.
In 1983 he started the top selling Personal Investor Magazine and in 1998, Shares Magazine. Gottliebsen appears regularly on television and has been a significant contributor to the Internet.
In 1999 he became host of the Business Daily TV show on Sky News. In 2000 he moved his Business Daily TV studio to The Australian Newspaper where he was appointed National Business Commentator.
Robert Gottliebsen played a significant role in developing the BRW business operation. As well as the success of Business Review Weekly, Robert founded Personal Investor Magazine and Shares Magazine. BRW Media grew to encompass a number of financial publications as well as a substantial contract publishing operation that included the Qantas magazines and the Australian Accountant magazine.
Robert Gottliebsen now has a unique role in Australian journalism, communicating business ideas and comments through The Australian, a nightly TV show, the Internet and regular radio broadcasts.