Caroline Jones

2022 - 5 - 20

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Trailblazing journalist Caroline Jones dead at 84 (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The veteran broadcaster was the first female reporter on Australia's first national current affairs program, This Day Tonight, and hosted Australian Story ...

She is also a fine journalist and broadcaster, one of Australia’s best communicators and a terrific human being.” “It’s a question of timing,” the then 78-year-old added. Get it here.

Legendary Aussie TV veteran dies (NEWS.com.au)

An Australian radio and television journalist who worked at the ABC for more than 40 years has died.

She was raised in the small NSW country town of Murrurundi and in 2009 a portrait of Jones was hung in the National Portrait Gallery. Jones was a campaigner for Indigenous rights and won a stack of awards for her work in journalism. Jones published a number of books including a bestseller and was made an Officer of the order of Australia in 1988.

Caroline Jones: A girl from the bush who became a trail blazer (ABC News)

Caroline Jones died this week, age 84. In 2009, she told a reporter that her personal philosophy is to “enjoy each day as though it may be your last”. And that ...

On behalf of everyone at the ABC I extend my sincere sympathies to Caroline's family and friends." "So it's a pleasure to help small children learn to read." "I joined a team of extremely competitive young men, most of whom went on to make their mark in the industry. "I was a big fan of Caroline’s Search for Meaning Radio program," Fleming said. "When I became the first woman to anchor Four Corners, second wave feminism was just getting underway in Australia," Jones told the ABC program Four Corners during its 60th anniversary program. "She was so much more than a presenter. I think that was a very good training." "It was great to start in what was then a regional centre because you learnt a bit of everything," Jones said in 2013. ''Murrurundi was very formative for me," Jones told the Newcastle Herald in 2013. "I think it was because although I was quite good at writing English and so on, I was a bit timid. It's 1969 and a woman can be heard in the black and white footage talking about how men "complain their wives take too long at the salon". Journalism is in Caroline Jones's blood, but it wasn't until her late 20s that she started in the industry.

Vale: Caroline Jones | TV Tonight (TV Tonight)

Veteran presenter Caroline Jones, best known for Australian Story has died, aged 84. She died following a fall at her home this week in Sydney, ABC reports.

On behalf of everyone at the ABC I extend my sincere sympathies to Caroline’s family and friends.” Her legacy will lie in the pages of newspapers, podcasts, television news reports, radio broadcasts and online. Jones is remembered as a warm and kind person with a wicked sense of humour, but perhaps her biggest legacy is the strides she made for women in media and television.

Statement from David Anderson, ABC Managing Director. (About the ABC)

The ABC community is deeply saddened by the death of Caroline Jones AO, the hugely influential, respected and loved journalist, writer and broadcaster.

On behalf of everyone at the ABC I extend my sincere sympathies to Caroline’s family and friends. In 1997 she was voted one of Australia’s Living Treasures. Her other roles included presenting The Search for Meaning on Radio National. Like many ABC journalists of her generation, she helped to define Australian broadcast journalism.

Caroline Jones dies aged 84: Tributes flow for Australian media giant (The West Australian)

Tributes have flowed for pioneering Australian journalist Caroline Jones who died on Friday aged 84.

“Even after her retirement, she would regularly make contact to cheer us on from the side lines. In a statement Australian Story paid tribute to the inspiring woman who made an influential impact across the Australian journalism industry, labelling her contribution to the program as “immeasurable”. Jones was also the first presenter for the ABC’s profile series Australian Story where she worked on the program from the show’s beginning in 1996 to her retirement in 2016.

Veteran Australian TV journalist and presenter Caroline Jones dies ... (9News)

The former Four Corners host died this week after a fall in her Sydney home. She was 84. Jones was the first female reporter for This ...

As of 2009, a portrait of Jones hangs in the National Portrait Gallery and in 2021, Jones was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame. Jones was the first female reporter for This Day Tonight in 1968 and later became the first female anchor of Four Corners, remaining in the chair from 1972-1981. Australia's media industry is mourning the death of veteran journalist and presenter Caroline Jones AO, who is being remembered as "a pioneer in journalism (and) a trailblazer for women".