Chris Reason

Chris Reason
Reason and wife Kathryn in 2012
Born	Chris Reason (1965-10-01) 1 October 1965 (age 51) Australia
Occupation	Journalist, News Presenter
Employer	Seven Network
Spouse(s)	Kathryn Robinson
Children	Samuel and Lucy

Chris Reason is a senior reporter and presenter for Seven News in Sydney, Australia. He was awarded the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award for his coverage of the Lindt Cafe siege in December 2014.

Reason began his career in newspapers in 1986 - first at The Redland Times then the daily metro newspaper The Sun in Brisbane. In 1989 he was signed by the Nine Network as a reporter for their News Bureau on the Gold Coast.

A year later, he moved to the Seven Network in Brisbane as Crime Reporter. In 1992, he was appointed to Seven's London Bureau, the youngest correspondent in the network's history, and a year later he was appointed Bureau Chief. After 4 years in the Bureau, he returned to Seven's Sydney Newsroom as a Senior Network Reporter.

In 2002, he was announced as co-host of the re-launched national breakfast program Sunrise alongside Melissa Doyle. But in September, Reason was diagnosed with cancer and forced to retire from the program while he underwent six months of chemotherapy, surgery and recovery care. He was replaced by David Koch. The cancer was an abdominal metastasis of the testicular cancer he had fought four years earlier. Reason had missed a critical health check-up in 2001 while covering the September 11 terror attacks in the United States, and he says it almost cost him his life. In multiple interviews since, he has warned young men to never miss a health check-up.

In 2003, after his recovery, Reason rolled through multiple roles - first as presenter of Seven Morning News, then the following year, presenter of Sunday Sunrise. In 2005, he was named co-host of Weekend Sunrise alongside Lisa Wilkinson, but was later replaced by Deal or No Deal host Andrew O'Keefe. Reason returned to full-time reporting as Senior Network Correspondent.