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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

I led the corporate communications team at SBS, which is charged with amplifying the work being done under our Charter to serve Australia’s multilingual and First Nations communities. In 2024, my role was expanded and I was made responsibile for overseeing the teams who run SBS's Outreach programs which include SBS Learn, Community Airtime obligations and Elevate RAP. In this role, I oversaw SBS's corporate communications strategy on major initiatives that include:- Working closely with our new Sustainability Function on the formation, implementation and execution of our ESG framework which saw SBS become the first Australian broadcaster to reach Net Zero on direct emissions and set an ambitious 2045 target for Net Zero on supplier emissions. - The rebrand of our audio division as SBS Audio. The project included the five yearly Language Services Review which has seen the division undertake a major change management project to orientate to being a digitally led audio broadcaster. This project received a Highly Commended at the 2024 CommsCon Awards for Best Internal Communications and Change Management. - Securing the rights to translate all of the 2022 Federal Election Debates across languages including Mandarin, Arabic, Cantonese and Vietnamese. SBS was the only network to secure access to every debate with the Communications team integral to securing access across the various networks.- The launch of the SBS WorldWatch channel - a channel which exists to provide Australians with access to news from around the world in languages other than English.- SBS launching an Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan, NITV’s 10 years on free-to-air concert celebrations, held at Uluru and media coverage around SBS/NITV's reporting of the 2023 Referendum.- Other key major projects including the 2022 & 2023 SBS Annual Report, SBS's 2023 and 2024 Upfronts events, our broadcast of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the acquisition of the 2026 FIFA World Cup rights.

Surry Hills, Nsw, Au

After the success of the first annual audio showcase hosted by Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA), HEARD is back in 2025.

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Sydney, New South Wales (Nsw), Au

Advisory board role advising UNSW faculty in the Bachelor of Media program on the needs of the industry across a number of areas of media and marketing.

North Sydney, New South Wales, Au

In December 2018, Nine and Fairfax Media merged creating the largest locally owned media company in Australia. In the wake of this merger, I was given responsibility for building out and managing Nine's Corporate Affairs team across its external and internal corporate communications. The Nine Corporate Affairs team are responsible for corporate communications across its key divisions of television (9Network, 9Now), radio (2GB, 3AW, 4BC, 6PR), publishing (The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, nine.com.au) and working with key subsidiaries (including Domain, Stan, Drive and Pedestrian).Nine's Corporate Affairs team is also responsible for working with the company's senior management, across its businesses, to map, drive and execute its internal communications to some 4000+ employees across Australia.While my role was across the group level of the business, I also had a role sitting on the executive leads teams of both our publishing and radio businesses. In this role, I oversaw and executed corporate communications on major projects that included:- managing messaging and media on the Nine / Fairfax merger.- leading the creation of Nine’s post-merger corporate affairs team.- overseeing the overhaul and development of the combined group's internal communications strategy, including the project team for the creation of one combined intranet and Slack for all of Nine’s TV/publishing/radio employees.- managing and executing corporate communications for major post-merger divestments that included Australian Community Media (ACM), Fairfax Events, Weatherzone and Stuff Ltd along with the acquisition of the remaining stake of Macquarie Media (now Nine Radio). - corporate media relations at the Nine half-yearly/full-year financial results, AGM and Nine Upfronts 2017-22.- managing communications on key internal relocations across multiple sites post-merger including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.

North Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Responsible for managing Nine's trade/business media communications across both its television and digital assets. My role related primarily to corporate affairs across the Nine Network, Nine Digital (including its assets in New Zealand), and broader Nine sales operation.I was also an adviser to Nine's senior management team, across its businesses, mapping, driving and executing its internal communications to some 3000+ employees across Australia.During my time in this role, I ran corporate communications on major projects that included:- the trade/business media relations at the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Nine Upfronts- Nine's $300m acquisition of the 2020-24 tennis rights.- the launches of Nine's lifestyle vertical, data and TV buying automation strategies.- media relations at the Nine Entertainment half-yearly/full-year financial results and AGM.- messaging around major restructures of Nine's digital, sales and marketing operations.- communications around office relocation from Willoughby/Sydney CBD to North Sydney.- leading communications strategy on industry initiatives, such as the launch of a Fairfax/News/Nine data identity cooperative.I also worked closely with Nine's trade marketing team on its content marketing strategy helping to tell our story across Nine's own corporate website and social media, including Twitter and Linkedin.

North Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Responsible for the overarching consumer and trade media communications strategy for the Nine Digital business, including key properties such as nine.com.au, the 9Honey online women's lifestyle network and its various news and lifestyle websites along with broadcast video on demand platform 9Now. This role saw me act as a strategic adviser to the senior executive team across both Nine's digital and sales operations, working across issues involving both external and internal communications.The projects I led the communications strategy on include: Nine Digital's $30m acquisition of CarAdvice, the launch of the 9Honey women's lifestyle network, Nine's trade media strategy for its 2017 Upfronts and nine.com.au's communications around the recategorisation of its homepage by Nielsen, which saw it return to the top tier of Australian news websites.

North Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Deputy Editor, and one of the lead reporters, tasked with covering the latest news and developments for Australia's most read media and marketing news website Mumbrella.My beats included media owners (in particular television/radio/digital/print), media agencies, advertising technology and communications regulatory policy.During my time at Mumbrella I held a number of roles within the editorial team, including senior journalist, media/technology editor and deputy editor. I also played a key supporting role in helping run the newsdesk and also helped curate sessions for some of Mumbrella's flagship events including Mumbrella360, Commscon and SAGE. In this role, I also spent time filling in for the Mumbrella Asia editor in Singapore covering the media and marketing beat across a number of markets in South-East Asia and have also managed the editorial component of key partnerships such as the Yahoo7 Digital Stars program from 2014-16 and LinkedIn Agency Influencer program in 2016.I was also a regular commentator on issues across the media and marketing space and have appeared on programs including: A Current Affair, Sky News, The Feed, ABC News 24, Lateline, Radio 2GB, Radio 2UE, RN's Media Report, ABC's AM program, ABC 702, 774 & 666.

Sydney, Au

Senior producer who during my time with Macquarie Media worked across almost all the major programs on Radio 2GB.I also regularly filled-in as executive producer during summers.Over the summers of 2010-2015 I was the regular fill-in executive producer of the station's top rating Mornings program, which is broadcast across Sydney, Canberra and much of Queensland. On other occasions, I was also summer EP of other programs such as Breakfast, Drive and Nights.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Journalist with The Australian's Media and Marketing section, with a focus on reporting on digital and social media. I was also responsible for the day-to-day running/editing of The Australian's Media online pillar from July 2011-June 2012.During my time with the newspaper I was also the main columnist for The Australian's Twitterati column covering the growth of social media and the impact of Twitter on journalism.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Editorial lead on a video project examining Australia’s future and the opportunities and challenges facing our nation.The brand funded series involved the creation of eight 10-minute documentaries along with complementary editorial content. I was also responsible for additional online content management of the website and related social media. The series was filmed in conjunction with FremantleMedia.

New York, New York, Us

As a general news reporter for the Daily Telegraph I covered a wide variety of topics from crime, to politics, to general interest and colour stories. During my time at the Telegraph I also worked with News Corp Australia's national political correspondent Steve Lewis on two investigations which ran across News's tabloids: one on the excessive payments to contractors in Australia's foreign aid program and the other on lax regulation in Australia's foreign investment regime.

During my time at university I wrote for various media outlets including Fairfax's The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and also News Corp opinion website The Punch.In July and November of 2009 the Herald took up two stories I brought them: one on the political donations of Chinese-Australian businessman Chau Chak Wing, the other on the internal civil war in the NSW Liberal Party. For these stories I worked with senior Fairfax reporters Deborah Snow and John Garnaut to develop these investigations and have them published in the news and News Review sections of the newspaper.In 2009 I won the Walkley Foundation's student journalist of the year award for the investigation of Chau Chak Wing and his political donations.

Masters Of Arts, Journalism

Bachelor Of Arts (Honours), Political Science And International Relations

Business Sustainability Management, Cambridge Institute For Sustainability Leadership (Cisl)