Debbie Whitmont

Debbie Whitmont, aka Deb Whitmont, is an Australian television journalist and writer, who once worked as a practising lawyer.

At Four Corners

A graduate of Sydney University, in 1986 Whitmont joined the Australian news program Four Corners as a researcher. She returned in 1989 rising to the position of Associate Producer.

At ABC

From 1993 to 1996 Whitmont was a Middle East correspondent for ABC and filed reports from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Pakistan for Lateline, Foreign Correspondent, and The 7.30 Report. In 1998 she returned to report for Four Corners.

As author

She wrote An Extreme Event, about the fatal 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

Human Rights Commission Award for Journalism

• Inside Story (2002) about the Villawood Detention Centre
• About Woomera (2003)

Logie Award

• Other People's Money

Walkley Award

• She and fellow journalist Morag Ramsay won the Walkley Award for The Newman Case (2008).^[1]

New York Film Festival

• She won a Gold Medal at the New York Film Festival for her body of work as a producer.

Nominations

Whitmont was nominated for an Emmy Award for The Forgotten Famine.^{[when?][citation needed]}

References

1. ^ The 53rd Walkley Awards

Source

• The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008

External links

• Four Corners

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