Aug 12, 2024
On this week’s podcast, I speak with Television Journalist
Amelia Adams. Amelia has
been a journalist for more than 21 years; more than 14 of those
with the 9 Network.
Before joining the 60 Minutes team in 2022, she was Nine’s
Senior Foreign
Correspondent in North America.
Amelia’s live reporting from the US Capitol during the January 6
insurrection saw her
win two Kennedy Awards and a Walkley nomination. She has also
reported from war
zones in Ukraine and Iraq.
Amelia covered the volatile final year of Donald Trump’s presidency
and led the
9News coverage of the unprecedented 2020 presidential election. She
reported from
the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests and the ‘Make America Great
Again’ rallies.
She was Nine’s London-based Europe and Middle East Correspondent,
reporting on
Brexit, the fall of Theresa May, and the 2019 UK election. In the
Middle East, she
covered the Turkish incursion into Syria and the US assassination
of Iranian General
Qasem Soleimani.
She has reported directly from crisis zones around the world
including the
Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Christchurch earthquake.
Over the years Amelia has also regularly filled in hosting the
Today Show and Nine’s
6 pm News. Amelia knows how to tell a story, share a story, and put
words to paper.
We spoke in depth of Amelia’s love for all things military history,
the balancing act of
being a working Mum and traveling around the world for work and the
dangers that
reporters face on the frontline.
Presenter: Adam Blum
Guest: Amelia Adams
Editor: Kyle Watkins
Investigative Consultant: Adam Holloway