Robert Cornthwaite

• Work with reporters to bring news stories to life.
• Edit audio and video for news stories to air on local news.
• Select the best shots to best tell stories.
• Work with sensitive images including fatal accidents, murders and fires etc.
• Managed digital archives of video, and organized files.
• Work under high pressure, with a tight deadline.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Produce sports content for local and national news.
• Produce scripts for newsreaders and news packages.
• Sub scripts for journalists.
• Uncover newsworthy stories across all sports.
• Conduct interviews, including live and on-air interviews.
• Cut and edited audio and video.
• Produce the news, allocating times and stories to journalists.
• Produce live news crosses.
• Present live news crosses.
• Write, cut, and edit highlights packages in real time.
• Collaborated with editors, producers, and other reporters in the newsroom environment.
• Work on location.
• Monitor daily sporting events and issues to discuss.
• Conduct interviews with coaches, players and other personnel associated with sporting events.
• Developed relationships with sources within the sports community for exclusive information.

• Host and co-hosted different football podcasts.
• Host of the A-League Men's 'Players Podcast'.
• Live interviewer.
• Sourced and researched the best angles to generate headlines.
• Worked with producers to stick to allotted times.

• Opinion pieces for the A-League website published monthly.
• I wrote match analyses and match reviews for the A-Leagues website published monthly.
• Author of 'Cornthwaite's Corner' for Adelaide United FC weekly.

• FIFA Qatar World Cup 2022 panelist.
• Live football matches analyst for 12 or more matches.
• Researched and analyzed national teams.
• Worked on location.

• Thirteen-year professional football career making more than 300 appearances.
• Lived and played overseas for 7 years.
• I represented Australia at the senior level and U/23 level.
• Captained Western Sydney Wanderers.

TEAMS

Socceroos (Australian National team)

Adelaide United (Adelaide, Australia)

Chunnam Dragons (Gwangyang, South Korea)

Selangor FC (Selangor, Malaysia)

Western Sydney Wanderers (Sydney, Australia)

Perek FA (Ipoh, Malaysia)

Olyroos (Australian Olympic U/23 team)