Anita Jacoby with Kay McGrath on Secrets Beyond the Screen
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Duration: 60 minutes
Anita Jacoby is a leading advocate for women in media and leadership.
Renowned as one of Australia’s most distinguished television producers, Anita has produced some of the nation’s most credible programs, including Enough Rope with Andrew Denton, The Gruen Transfer, 60 Minutes, Sunday, Elders and Hungry Beast.
Anita’s fearless journalistic spirit and gift for storytelling has seen her explore the lives of presidents, rock stars, royalty, and broadcasting giants from Sir David Attenborough to Crown Princess Mary, Bill Clinton, Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda and Elton John.
She has also reported on some of the nation’s most significant news stories including the Ivan Milat case and the Childers Backpacker fire.
But it was a throw-away comment at a dinner party one night that saw Anita take on her biggest project yet. From that night on, her world was turned on its head as she investigated an extraordinary tale hidden so deep, it took her nine years to uncover the truth about her own father Phillip Jacoby – an international man of mystery. A tale she tells in her intensely personal memoir Secrets Beyond the Screen.
Anita chairs the ABC Advisory Council, co-chairs Women in Media, is a Board Member of Chief Executive Women (CEW), the UK Duke of Edinburgh International Award, Documentary Australia and an Associate Member of the Australian Communications & Media Authority.
Listen to fellow television veteran and award-winning journalist and newsreader
Kay McGrath delve deep into conversation with Anita about the art of storytelling, the people they’ve met on the road, navigating the complex landscape for women in media and how to dig deep, finding vulnerability when writing a family memoir.
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Anita Jacoby
Anita Jacoby AM Anita Jacoby is a noted advocate for women in media and leadership. Renowned as one of Australia’s most distinguished television producers, Anita has worked on some of the nation’s most credible and cutting-edge programs spanning all commercial networks, as well as the ABC, SBS and Foxtel. From 60 Minutes to Enough Rope, The Today Show, Elders, Sunday, Hungry Beast and The Gruen Transfer, Anita’s wealth of experience and knowledge of the media landscape saw her headhunted in 2013 to manage the Australian arm of one of the largest commercial television production companies in the world, ITV Studios. As one of a handful of local female Managing Directors in Australian broadcasting, Anita gained an even broader view of the industry, traversing into the regulatory and business worlds, becoming one of the few women in media to gain an insight into the entrepreneurial sphere. Consequently, Anita has been invited to chair the ABC Advisory Council by Ita Buttrose, is a Board Member of Chief Executive Women (CEW), Documentary Australia and Women in Media, as well as being an Associate Member of the Australian Communications & Media Authority. She was recently appointed to the UK’s International Board of the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Anita’s television work has received ten nominations and four AFI/AACTA Awards, a Logie Award, a Human Rights Award and the Asia Broadcasting Union Award. In 2019, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia. Secrets Beyond the Screen is her first book.
Kay McGrath
Kay McGrath is a highly-experienced, award winning journalist and presenter. She has worked in the media for over 40 years, spending much of that time presenting prime time news bulletins in Queensland for the Seven Network.
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