Friends of the ABC Central Coast will hold their first event on April 23, featuring special guest speaker Anne Maria Nicholson.
Nicholson is a prominent journalist and author who has worked for many of Australia’s major media organisations, as well as internationally.
Arts and media have dominated her personal and professional life.
For 20 years, she was a senior news and current affairs journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reporting for 7pm National News, Foreign Correspondent, Lateline and ABC-24 where she presented two arts programs.
For many years, she was the National Arts Reporter, producing arts coverage across all platforms, from film to theatre, literature to opera, dance to music, architecture to archaeology, visual arts to fashion and festivals around Australia.
In 2012 she was awarded a Getty Fellowship in Los Angeles for arts journalism.
In the ABC’s Sydney newsroom, Nicholson frequently worked as Network Editor, ABC TV National News, coordinating coverage from all state and territory newsrooms and international correspondents.
She has also written extensively for ABC-Online and newspapers including The Australian and Sydney Morning Herald.
She was also an on-air reporter for the Seven Network, including three years in the Press Gallery in Canberra, and SBS-TV.
In her earlier career, she reported for newspapers in New Zealand and was a writer/producer at Visnews/Reuters in London.
In 2020, Nicholson was awarded a GAICD after graduating from the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
She was Deputy Chair of the Australian Society of Authors and a Director of the Copyright Agency under the Chairmanship of Kim Williams, the new ABC Chair.
Nicholson has written three novels which draw on her reporting skills to produce forensic research.
She continues to support the national broadcaster as an advocate of ABC Alumni.
Her talk will take place in the function room at the Elanora Hotel, 41 Victoria Street, East Gosford, at 11am on Tuesday, April 23.
Tickets to the talk are free, with lunch and drinks available for purchase.
If you wish to make a lunch booking after the talk email ross.mcgowen61@gmail.com
Book for the talk at https://events.humanitix.com/friends-of-the-abc-central-coast-event-featuring-anne-maria-nicholson