Ranald Macdonald (mai jarida)

**Chesborough Ranald Macdonald** AO (an haife shi a ranar 27 ga Yuni 1938) wanda aka fi sani da **Ranald Macdonald**, ɗan jarida ne na Australiya mai ritaya, babban jami'in watsa labarai, mai watsa shirye-shirye kuma malami. Macdonald ya yi aiki a matsayin Manajan Darakta na David Syme & Co. Limited (mawallafin jaridar *The Age* a Melbourne, Ostiraliya ) daga 1964 zuwa 1983 da kuma babban edita daga 1966 zuwa 1970. Daga 1995 zuwa 1999 ya yi aiki a matsayin Shugaban Kwalejin Sadarwa ta Jami'ar Boston Sashen Aikin Jarida.

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Macdonald a Melbourne, Ostiraliya, ga Hamish Claude Henry Macdonald da Nancy Alison Syme, a ranar 27 ga Yuni 1938. Ya yi shekarunsa na farko a Wantabadgery West, kusa da Wagga Wagga a New South Wales, inda maƙwabtan iyalin suka haɗa da Sir Keith Murdoch da iyalinsa, 'yan uwan mahaifiyarsa Nancy.

Mahaifinsa Hamish, kyaftin a rundunar sojojin sarauniya ta biyu ta Ostiraliya, 2/19th Battalion, an kashe shi a lokacin faduwar Singapore a ranar 19 ga Janairu, 1942, ya bar 'ya'ya uku - Ranald da 'yan'uwa mata biyu, Jean da Morna. Shekaru biyu kenan kafin iyalan suka sami tabbacin mutuwarsa.

Daga baya mahaifiyarsa Nancy ta sake auren Kanar EHB (Ted) Neill, wanda aka fi sani da "Kanar" kuma suna da ɗa ɗaya, James. Kanar ɗin yana da ɗakuna a Kwalejin Jesus, Jami'ar Cambridge tare da Hamish Macdonald. 

## Ilimi
Macdonald ya yi karatu a Makarantar Grammar Geelong, inda ya kasance ɗan shekara 6 a yankin karkara na Geelong Grammar, kuma ya halarci shekarar farko ta harabar Timbertop ta karkara ta Victorian, lokacin da aka buɗe ta a 1953. Shirin ilimi mai inganci a Timbertop ya shahara lokacin da Charles III ya halarta a 1966. Macdonald ya yaba wa Shugaban makarantar, Sir James Darling, wanda ya fara Timbertop kuma ya yi yabo a jana'izar kakansa Oswald Syme.

Kamar mahaifinsa, Macdonald ya halarci Kwalejin Jesus, Cambridge, inda ya karanci shari'a da tarihi daga 1957 zuwa 1960. Bayan kammala karatunsa, Macdonald ya koma Ostiraliya kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da rahoto a jaridar *The Age* tsawon shekaru uku, har sai da aka yi wasan golf mai cike da sa'a tare da kyaftin din sojojin ruwa na Amurka a Royal Melbourne Golf Club, wanda ya kai ga gabatarwa ga Ed Barrett, Dean na Makarantar Digiri na Biyu ta Jarida ta Jami'ar Columbia. Macdonald ya rubuta bayanansa a bayan katin sakamakonsu, wanda hakan ya sa ya halarci Columbia a matsayin tallafin karatu don yin karatun digiri na biyu na Kimiyya na Kasuwanci (1963-64), irinsa na farko a Amurka.

Don rubuta takardar neman digirinsa, Macdonald ya yi tunanin 'The Great American Newspaper'. Ya zaɓi manyan tsare-tsaren edita da sauran fannoni na mafi kyawun jaridu a Amurka kuma ya haɗa su don ƙirƙirar littafinsa mai 'kyau', ya zaɓi ra'ayoyin jama'a daga Washington Post, rahotannin siyasa daga The Courier-Journal da ke Louisville, sharhi daga New York Times, tallace-tallace na musamman daga Miami Herald da talla daga Denver Post, da sauransu.

Ya aika da kwafin takardar neman digirinsa ga kowace jarida da ya gabatar, kuma an gayyace shi ya ziyarci kusan dukkansu. Ya yi tafiyar mota don ya koyi game da mafi kyawun aikin jarida a Amurka kafin ya koma Ostiraliya. An ba Macdonald wasu ayyuka a hanya, ɗaya daga Katharine Graham a *Washington Post*, wacce ta zama abokiyar kirki. 

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