Education
He was educated at Claremont Central State School and Perth Technical College, leaving school at 16.
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James Cruthers
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Career
He started work at the Daily News newspaper in Perth in 1939 and joined the forces in 1940. During the Second World War he was a Royal Australian Air Force pilot. After the war he became a cadet journalist at the Daily News, and was there when the paper hired Paul Rigby as a cartoonist.
In 1958 he was appointed as founding general manager of Washington television station TVW Channel 7.
He later became chairman of the station. His chairmanships included the Australian Film Commission and News American Publishing Incorporated where he was personal adviser to Rupert Murdoch.
In 1999 he was chairman of The Sunday Times newspaper. Cruthers was a philanthropist who established TVW Telethon and Perth"s annual Christmas pageant.
He supported many charitable groups, including the Lions Eye Institute (where he was a founding patron), University of Western Australia"s Hackett Foundation, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, the Association of the Blind (Washington) Guide Dogs and the Street George"s Cathedral Restoration project
He was the business representative on University of Western Australia"s Berndt Museum of Anthropology"s advisory board. Both have supported the National Gallery of Australia and the United States National Portrait Gallery. In 1998 and 1999 Cruthers was conference patron of ‘small screen BIG PICTURE’.
On 13 October 2015, Cruthers died at the age of 90.
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Australia