Virginia Trioli
Virginia Trioli is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author, and presenter of ‘Creative Types with Virginia Trioli’ on ABCTV and You Don’t Know Me podcast on ABC Listen.
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Virginia Trioli
Two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia Trioli is one of Australia’s best-known journalists, with a formidable reputation as a television anchor, radio presenter, writer and commentator.
Virginia, is an honors graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, and in 1996 published “Generation F”, her celebrated response to Helen Garner’s ‘First Stone’.
In 1995 she won Australian journalism’s highest honor, the Walkley Award for her business reporting and in 2001 Virginia won a second Walkley for her landmark interview with the former Defence Minister, Peter Reith, over the notorious Children Overboard issue.
Virginia has held senior positions at the Age newspaper and the Bulletin magazine. For four years she hosted the Drive Program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the Morning Program on 702 ABC Sydney for three years.
She was the founding anchor of ABC News Breakfast on ABC TV, which she co-hosted for 11 years and was the alternative host of ABC TV’s Q&A since its inception in 2008.
Virginia presented Mornings on ABC Radio Melbourne for the four years of the Black Summer bushfires, the Covid19 pandemic, the 2022 flood emergency and the cost of living crisis.
Virginia hosts the Prime Time ABC TV ‘Creative Types with Virginia Trioli” and the podcast, You Don’t Know Me and writes her Weekend Reads column for ABC News online each Saturday.
Virginias latest book, A Bit on the Side: Reflections on What makes life Delicious; is published by PanMacmillan.
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