Lisa Upton Email & Phone Number

Sydney

Sydney, Australia

Sydney

Working across a range of senior roles in the newsroom, including late news Chief Producer, International Editor and Evening Editor.

Bangalore, India

* Filing for SBS World News television, radio and online

Sydney

* Chief Producer 10:30 news + reporting national and international news for SBS TV, radio and online

* Raconteur was a boutique media agency specialising in storytelling. * Clients included Stockland, Johnson and Johnson, Al Jazeera and AusAID* We wrote websites, produced books, articles and films. * Film clients included former Supreme Court Judge, Mervyn Finlay. I edited the book Exit Wounds by Major General John Cantwell and Greg Bearup.

* Set up an office in Islamabad for the international NGO, Internews* Together with a Pakistani colleague, we hired 25 staff and built an extraordinary program over three years* We built the country’s first women’s radio station, produced a TV series on human rights and created a new broadcast journalism curriculum at Peshawar University.* Experience managing teams of people, writing multi-million dollar proposals, working with donors and building relationships with stakeholders in… Show more * Set up an office in Islamabad for the international NGO, Internews* Together with a Pakistani colleague, we hired 25 staff and built an extraordinary program over three years* We built the country’s first women’s radio station, produced a TV series on human rights and created a new broadcast journalism curriculum at Peshawar University.* Experience managing teams of people, writing multi-million dollar proposals, working with donors and building relationships with stakeholders in Pakistan and abroad Show less

Sydney, Australia

* Worked briefly as journalist with Dateline before moving to Insight* Reporter and producer on many 30 minute current affairs stories* Films included "The Limits of Generosity" about the tussle between Australia and East Timor over oil and gas and "Leaving Tennant Creek" - a story that followed a group of Aboriginal kids who left their home in the Northern Territory to go to boarding school in QLD

London, United Kingdom

* Producer at BBC World* Covered the Kosovo crisis and the impeachment of US President, Bill Clinton* Worked across programs including The World Today, HARDtalk, Europe Direct and news

* TV reporter and news reader for a very brief period ... sadly, Wharf Cable closed its English-language news service not long after the 1997 handover when Hong Kong once again became part of China.

* Reporter and newsreader in Newcastle and on the NSW mid-north coast

Bachelor Of Arts, Communications, Journalism, History, Politics

Education record