I am an award-winning journalist and filmmaker with 17 years experience telling stories from across our world. In Mexico, I embedded with a team of paramedics to chronicle the devastating impacts of COVID firsthand (VICE World News/SBS). In the Philippines, I captured the Marcos family's astonishing return to power (Foreign Correspondent/ABC, 2 million views). I've travelled the Australian outback to shine a light on the destruction of globally significant Aboriginal cultural heritage sites (VICE World News/SBS) and along the country's east coast, investigating the mounting human and economic cost of climate change-induced flood disasters (Four Corners/ABC, 660k views). As a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, I studied vertical filmmaking and Indonesian politics and history, building on my years of reporting from Jakarta. This paved the way for my most recent project, Indonesia Decides, a digital-first factual series for ABC on the 2024 presidential election that reached 2.6 million people.
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Director And ProducerNew MutinySydney, Nsw, Au
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Director & ProducerNew Mutiny Apr 2024 - PresentSydney, New South Wales, AustraliaDocumentary that is emotionally potent, visually stunning and journalistically rigorous.
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Ep | Director & ProducerAustralian Broadcasting Corporation (Abc) Jun 2021 - Mar 2024Sydney, AustraliaLed a bilingual digital-first series on Indonesia's 2024 elections, building the ABC's brand in Asia and connecting with new, young and diverse audiences. Series included 3 x 30 min VOD episodes, vertical videos and app content for owned and third-party platforms including YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and ABC iView. We reached 2.6 million people worldwide. Previously, I was directing, producing and reporting across ABC video and audio news and documentary programs inc Foreign Correspondent, Four Corners. -
Producer | You Can’T Ask ThatAustralian Broadcasting Corporation (Abc) Jun 2021 - Oct 2021Sydney, AustraliaThe ABC’s most successful original TV format, YCAT confronts discrimination and destigmatises often misunderstood identities, experiences and ways of life. We surface new voices that capture the beauty and diversity of the human experience and help people tell their stories publicly, often for the first time.
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Director & Producer | DocumentaryVice News Apr 2020 - Jan 2021Mexico & Australia• Developing news documentaries that go to the heart of the year's biggest stories • Directing and field producing in challenging environments inc. executing COVID-safe shoots • Leading an international creative team through post-production to final cut -
Reporter | Abc NewsAustralian Broadcasting Corporation (Abc) 2019 - 2020Mexico City, Mexico• Freelance reporter covering news and current affairs in Latin America• Pitching and producing original audio stories for flagship ABC audio programs• Live interviews into nightly TV newscasts
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Atsuko Chiba FellowNieman Foundation For Journalism At Harvard 2017 - 2018Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States• Studying Qur’anic history; Islam and politics in Indonesia; modern Middle Eastern politics; gendered violence during peace and conflict; civil rights history and law in America• Speaking about Southeast Asian reportage at the Harvard Asia Center and Northeastern University’s religion and reporting conference• Interviewed former US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power; moderated reporting on Islam seminar with Black Islam Syllabus curator Dr. Kayla Wheeler and Slate's Aymann Ismail -
Supervising Producer | The DrumAustralian Broadcasting Corporation (Abc) Jan 2016 - Jun 2017Sydney, Australia• Running an influential nightly news-analysis program that fosters thoughtful public debate from a range of perspectives and delivering its highest-ever ratings• Implementing a diversity policy that made us the most inclusive show on Australian TV
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Producer & Reporter | Abc NewsAustralian Broadcasting Corporation (Abc) Jul 2013 - Dec 2015Sydney, Australia• Filing across digital, TV and radio platforms; editing video and audio packages; recruiting and mentoring a diverse range of new commentators; securing interviews with high-profile guests inc. Roxane Gay, Gloria Steinem, Lydia Cacho, Julia Gillard, Mesha Gessen
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Reporter & PresenterBerita Satu Media Holdings Jul 2011 - Jun 2013Jakarta, Indonesia• Helped launch a TV station that became one of Indonesia’s biggest news networks and produced and presented daily English-language news programs• Freelance reporter for CBS, CBC, Deutsche Welle and leading Australian newspapers on immigration, natural disasters, business, crime and terrorism -
Federal Political ReporterAustralian Associated Press (Aap) Feb 2008 - Jul 2011Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia -
Editor | Australian Centre For Independent JournalismUniversity Of Technology Sydney Jan 2007 - Dec 2007
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Bonny Symons-Brown Education Details
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Fellow, Nieman Foundation For Journalism -
Journalism
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Camera And Sound Fundamentals
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