Emma Siossian

• Sourcing and producing accurate, engaging and diverse news and feature content across multiple platforms, including digital articles/video/audio plus TV and radio content
• Deliver news, including producing and presenting news bulletins, Q & As, interviews and radio packages
• Delivering live crosses for TV and radio during news events, breaking stories and emergency broadcasting
• Senior reporting role, involving mentoring junior staff, sub-editing radio stories, and acting as Mid North Coast Editor/Point of Contact when required
• Working with regional and metro ABC news teams across Australia to deliver stories across state and national issues
• Selected as specialist Diversity Women's 50:50 reporter role for Regional NSW, actively generated more content for and about women
• Working with specialist teams, including the Embedded Communities Project to deliver original stories reflecting remote communities, including an ECP on Lord Howe Island in 2024

Created articles for newspapers and travel magazines, including Australian Traveller, with supporting photos

Self-motivated, finding stories while caravanning around Australia, and during domestic and overseas travel

• Delivered daily television news packages, sourcing stories, writing scripts and presenting pieces to camera
• Developed and maintained network of contacts
• Developed expertise in covering wide-ranging stories
• Worked as solo reporter in regional bureau, effectively managing deadlines and workload

• Wrote daily news for regular bulletins throughout the day
• Afternoon news reader, presenting bulletins/headlines on the hour and half hour
• Covered breaking news events, attended press conferences, State Parliament stories, court hearings and special events
• Live Q & As as required
• Worked to tight and demanding deadlines

Presented colour TV reports from locations during the sporting series, with key events during summer at locations in NSW, Victoria and SA

Presented radio and TV snow reports, live to air and pre-recorded

Presented reports while out in the skifields

Updated the digital snowreports and webpage

Wrote news stories and presented news bulletins

Worked solo in Whistler bureau of Mountain FM, with main base at Squamish

• Contributed a colour, weekly column about my experiences as an Aussie working in a Canadian ski resort

• Assisted with guest requests and questions and resolved guest complaints diplomatically to maintain an expected high level of customer service
• Served in Guest Services at the resort base, and mid and upper mountain offices
• Assisted in an emergency situation when a guest collapsed mid-way up the mountain, and received a staff award for my calm and fast response during a medical emergency

Sourced, wrote and produced TV news packages daily

Presented live-to-air TV news headlines

Produces late evening news bulletin, 'Late Edition'

Worked to tight daily deadlines

Sourced, wrote and produced several TV news packages daily

Worked solo in regional bureau, to tight deadlines, covering large regional area

Sourced and wrote stories for daily news bulletins, updating stories for hourly bulletins, also covering court, parliament and news conferences