Bernard Zuel

Bernard Zuel (born 1965) is an Australian music journalist. Zuel wrote for Fairfax Media newspapers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald from 1992 to 2017. He became their senior music writer and reviewer. Zuel is a judge of the Australian Music Prize award. At the end of June 2017 he left Fairfax Media to become a freelance journalist and also taught music journalism.

Early life and education

Bernard Zuel was born in 1965 Rose Hill, Mauritius. In the late 1960s, with his family – father Cyril, mother Irlande and two younger siblings – he relocated to Australia and settled in Sydney. Bernard attended Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield. He was surprised to find it was published and worked for street press before he got a job as a general news reporter at The Penrith Press. He worked there for a few years before starting at The Sydney Morning Herald in 1992, where he became the senior music writer and reviewer.