Ticky Fullerton

Last updated

Ticky Fullerton
Born
Surrey, England
Education Magdalen College, University of Oxford
Occupation(s)TV presenter
Business journalist
Years active1995–present
Spouse Michael Stutchbury

Ticky Fullerton is an English-born Australian journalist and TV presenter. Fullerton has hosted The Business on ABC News 24, Ticky on Sky News Business Channel and Your Money. She was previously a fill-in presenter of Lateline.

Contents

Personal life

Fullerton grew up in Surrey, England, and has three siblings.[ citation needed ] She took a law degree at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, graduating in 1985. At Oxford she was a contemporary of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. [1]

After graduation she became an associate director with Credit Suisse First Boston, working in London. She then worked for Credit Suisse First Boston in Sydney, raising capital for businesses and government. She currently lives in Sydney with one son.

In July 2018, Fullerton married Michael Stutchbury in the UK. [2]

Career

Moving to the ABC in 1995, Fullerton worked in business journalism and for the TV show Lateline . She then became the presenter of Landline , a TV show dealing with farming issues in Australia. Following that, she moved into investigative reporting for Four Corners for five years, and later presented Lateline Business (which became The Business) until 2 December 2016, when Elysse Morgan replaced her.

"Lords of the Forest", a 2004 episode of Four Corners presented by Fullerton, was criticised for bias in favour of logging protesters. [3] The Australian Communications and Media Authority upheld some of the complaints. [4]

In February 2017, Sky News Australia announced that Fullerton would host Ticky, a new business programme on Sky News Business Channel. [5]

After writing columns for The Australian for two years, [6] she was appointed in January 2021 as their business editor-at-large. [7]

In January 2023, it was announced that Fullerton had been appointed the chief executive of the Australian British Chamber of Commerce, effective 1 March 2023. [8]

Awards

Fullerton was awarded the Australian Government Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism (2004) for "3 provoking reports on issues of national significance – the fate of Tasmania's forests, the hidden agendas driving waste recycling and the fight for precious water resources". [9]

Publications

Related Research Articles

Sky News Australia is an Australian conservative news channel owned by News Corp Australia. Originally launched on 19 February 1996, it broadcasts rolling news coverage throughout the day, while its prime time lineup is dedicated to opinion-based programs featuring a line-up of conservative commentators.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marian Wilkinson</span> Australian journalist and author

Marian Wilkinson is an Australian journalist and author. She has won two Walkley Awards, and was the first female executive producer of Four Corners. She has been a deputy editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, a Washington correspondent for The National Times, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, as well as a senior reporter for The Australian.As of April 2017, she is a senior reporter at Four Corners.

<i>Lateline</i> Television series

Lateline was an Australian television news program which ran from 1990 until 2017. The program initially aired weeknights on ABC TV. In later years it was also broadcast internationally throughout Asia and the Pacific on the Australia Plus Satellite Network, and on the 24-hour ABC News Channel.

Jill Leonie Singer was an Australian journalist, writer and television presenter.

Monica Ann Attard is an Australian journalist and academic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tony Jones (news journalist)</span> Australian journalist and TV presenter (born 1955)

Anthony William Jones is an Australian television news and political journalist, radio and television presenter and writer.

Landline is an Australian national rural issues television program broadcast on ABC Television since 1991.

Emma Alberici is an Australian journalist and former foreign correspondent who was the chief economics correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television network.

Virginia Frances Trioli is an Australian journalist, author, radio and television presenter.

Ellen Mary Fanning is an Australian journalist.

Eleanor Hall is an Australian journalist and presenter.

The Business is Australia's leading business news television programme on ABC and ABC News in Australia.

Ros Childs is an English-born TV journalist based in Australia, with a focus on business matters. After working primarily in her native UK for the ITV Network, Childs moved to Australia and joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as a newsreader.

Ali Moore is an Australian TV journalist and radio broadcaster.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leigh Sales</span> Australian journalist and author (born 1973)

Leigh Peta Sales is an Australian journalist and author, best known for her work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Whitney Fitzsimmons is an Australian journalist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeremy Fernandez</span> Australian journalist and news presenter

Jeremy Fernandez is an Australian journalist and television news presenter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Fernandez is currently weeknight presenter of ABC News NSW in Sydney.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margot O'Neill</span> Australian journalist, writer and producer

Margot O'Neill is an Australian journalist, writer and producer. She founded Original Thinking Productions, a multi-platform content provider after leaving the ABC in 2019 where she was a journalist for over 25 years. O’Neill worked as a journalist for nearly 40 years in television, radio, newspapers and online in Australia and overseas covering politics, national security and social justice issues and has worked on a variety of ABC programs including the investigative flagship program, Four Corners. O'Neill twice won Australia's Walkley Awards including for Best Investigative Reporting as well as four human rights awards. She also wrote a book called Blind Conscience telling the stories of some of the key players in Australia's refugee advocacy movement. It won the 2009 Human Rights award for best non-fiction. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Politics) degree from Melbourne University. She was a Journalist Fellow at the University of Oxford.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sarah Ferguson (journalist)</span> British–Australian journalist (born 1965)

Sarah Ferguson is an Australian journalist, reporter and television presenter. She is the host of ABC TV's flagship news and current affairs program 7.30.

Janine Perrett is an Australian journalist and commentator who has worked across newspapers, radio and television for four decades. She currently works for ABC TV after working as a television presenter for Sky News Australia, until December 2019.

References

  1. "Political pantsman suddenly serious". The Sydney Morning Herald . 8 September 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  2. "Private Sydney: Karl Stefanovic comes out stinging – Joy to triumph over sticky situation" by Andrew Hornery, The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 July 2018
  3. "Ticky Fullerton – the activist's friend?". Crikey . 22 June 2004. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  4. "Investigation Report Nos. 1418, 1474" (PDF). Australian Communications and Media Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  5. "Ticky Fullerton joins SKY News Business". TV Tonight. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
  6. "Ticky Fullerton", Credit Suisse
  7. "Business specialist Ticky Fullerton puts big picture in focus", The Australian , 22 January 2021
  8. Greenblatt, Eli. "Ticky Fullerton appointed as chief executive of the Australian British Chamber of Commerce". The Australian. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  9. "Eureka: 2004". Eureka.australianmuseum.net.au. Archived from the original on 13 August 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
Media offices
Preceded by The Business
Presenter

2010
Succeeded by
Elysse Morgan