Mark Pownall has more than three decades of media experience, predominantly in business media in Perth, with a foray to the financial centre of London in the mid 1990s.
Mr Pownall has a vast body of work available through the archives of Business News, including news articles and features on many subjects. He has written a regular column for Business News since he joined as Editor in 2000 and has also been a key part of the Mark My Words podcast duo with Mark Beyer since 2014. On stage, Mr Pownall has interviewed many of the state's business leaders.
For most of his time at Business News, Mr Pownall ran the content operations of the business and was integral to the implementation of all the company’s digital products – the twice daily email newsletters, weekly podcasts, deals database and the Data & Insights subscriber database and search engine.
In early 2017 he became CEO of Business News, a role he had for three years before transitioning to his last executive position as Director of Strategy & Innovation, where he was responsible for digital transformation and new product development, including the rollout of a new subscriber-only remuneration platform. He is now back on the tools as a working journalist.
Mr Pownall's media career started with sports reporting while he studied for a Commerce degree at the University of Western Australia. He followed that with a post-graduate qualification in English at Curtin University.
Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss the end of the financial year, house prices, Power 500, lithium, apartments, workplace safety, Zhenya Tsvetnenko's sentencing, and Michelle Fyfe's resignation.
Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss FIFO harassment, Gudda Darri opening, Waterbank, construction overview, Fluor and Clough contracts, Crown, Nicole Lockwood, Mike Mckenna, pumped hydro, and education feature.
Senior editor Mark Pownall details the life and times of fisherman, wholesale food business player, and Golden Ponds founder and developer Tony Pannacchione.
The Federal Court has cleared the way for private equity giant Blackstone Group to take over the troubled Crown Resorts business, the last major hurdle for the $8.9 billion acquisition to go ahead.
Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss interest rates, convention centre deal, Crown takeover, Quintis comeback, Asian engagement, charities and philanthropy.
Perth-based agribusiness Quintis is back in the plantation development business, the first time it will add more sandalwood trees to its asset base in five years.
Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss local energy news, Meg O'Neill's outlook, Albo's new ministry, CBD property, Jutland Parade, Peter Briggs, Paul Lionetti, Rottnest and lithium's plunge.
Long-serving not-for-profit leader Jenny Allen is to step down as chief executive of the Foundation for WA Museum, handing the reins to a recent appointee to the charitable organisation.
Fresh from winning approval for its new production facility, Margaret River Brewhouse has a new investor in the form of an ex-partner from one of London’s 'magic circle' law firms.
Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss the election wrap-up, Fortescue Metals Group compensation, Clough claims, International Women's Day, Indigenous businesses, contractors and infrastructure.
Margaret River Brewhouse has been given the green light for the first stage of a phased expansion plan which will push production capacity at least six-fold.
It would have to be one of the more unusual land parcels in Perth’s southern development fringe, a tourism and fishing park in an area that could be described as a water playground.