Jo Puccini

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Jo Puccini
OccupationJournalist / executive producer
Years active1995–present
Known forExecutive Producer of 7.30 Four Corners Media Watch

Jo Puccini is an Australian journalist and since 2017 the Editor of ABC Investigations. From 2015 she was executive producer for the ABC for the nightly current affairs programme 7.30 . [1]

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Career

Puccini worked as a researcher and producer with the Seven Network on shows like Today Tonight , The Times and Witness, before joining the ABC's Media Watch as a researcher in 2000. While at the ABC’s Four Corners (2002–2007) Puccini won three Walkley Awards for journalism. Puccini was appointed Executive Producer for 7.30 in 2015 [2] replacing Sally Neighbour. In 2017 she was appointed Editor of ABC Investigations

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Awards

While at Four Corners Puccini was joint winner of three Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism. [4]

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References

  1. http://about.abc.net.au/press-releases/new-executive-producer-for-7-30/, "New Executive Producer for 7.30", Retrieved 12 May 2016
  2. http://www.afr.com/brand/rear-window/jo-puccini-appointed-new-ep-of-730-20150318-1m1tx1, "Jo Puccini appointed new EP of 7:30", Retrieved 12 May 2016
  3. http://about.abc.net.au/press-releases/abc-news-expands-its-national-reporting-team/, "ABC News expands its national reporting team", Retrieved 12 May 2016
  4. http://womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE2823b.htm, "The Australian Women's Register", Retrieved 12 May 2016.