Kylie Morris
Originally from Maitland, Kylie Morris is a prize-winning former foreign correspondent in the Middle East, South East Asia, and the US. She is a producer with Fran Kelly’s ABC RN…
BottomOriginally from Maitland, Kylie Morris is a prize-winning former foreign correspondent in the Middle East, South East Asia, and the US. She is a producer with Fran Kelly’s ABC RN…
BottomKylie Morris is a prize-winning former foreign correspondent for the BBC and Britain’s Channel Four News in the Middle East (Gaza and Iraq), South East Asia (Bangkok), Afghanistan, and the US (Washington DC). Originally from Maitland, she studied Arts at the University of Newcastle, and won a Chevening Scholarship to gain her Masters (International Relations) from the London School of Economics. She has contributed to several journalism collections, most recently “Through her Eyes – Australia’s Women Correspondents from Hiroshima to Ukraine” (Hardie Grant, 2022). Across her career, she has covered multiple conflicts, including the Iraq war, and natural disasters, like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; the rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement. #MeToo and Donald Trump in the US from 2014 to 2019; and was part of the team that broke the Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook data scraping story, that prompted multiple investigations, and court cases around the world. She now lives in Newcastle with her two children, and husband, film-maker Bharat Nalluri. She currently works with ABC Radio National, and is a producer with Fran Kelly’s ABC Radio National Hour.
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