Full Name
Virginia Trioli
Job Title
Presenter “Creative Types with Virginia Trioli” on ABCTV AND IVIEW
Company
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Biography
Three-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia Trioli is one of Australia’s best-known journalists, with a formidable reputation as a television anchor, radio presenter, author and commentator. She is much sought-after as a speaker and MC and combines a rigorous interviewing style with a wicked sense of humour.
Virginia hosts the Prime Time ABC TV ‘Creative Types with Virginia Trioli” and writes her Weekend Reads column for ABC News online each Saturday.
She is the author of ‘Generation F” and “A Bit on the Side”.
She was the founding anchor of ABC News Breakfast on ABC TV, which she co-hosted for 11 years, and was the alternative host of ABC TV’s Q&A since its inception in 2008.
She has been the host of ABC TV's premiere news and current affairs programs, 7.30 and Lateline, as well as Artscape and Sunday Arts.
Virginia hosted Drive on ABC Radio Melbourne, Mornings on 702 Sydney and Mornings on 774 Melbourne.
In 1995 she won Australian journalism's highest honour, the Walkley Award for her business reporting and in 2001 Virginia won a second Walkley for her landmark interview with the former Defence Minister, Peter Reith, over the notorious Children Overboard issue. She won a third Walkley in 2020 as part of the ABC News and Local radio team for her Black Summer coverage.
Virginia hosts the Prime Time ABC TV ‘Creative Types with Virginia Trioli” and writes her Weekend Reads column for ABC News online each Saturday.
She is the author of ‘Generation F” and “A Bit on the Side”.
She was the founding anchor of ABC News Breakfast on ABC TV, which she co-hosted for 11 years, and was the alternative host of ABC TV’s Q&A since its inception in 2008.
She has been the host of ABC TV's premiere news and current affairs programs, 7.30 and Lateline, as well as Artscape and Sunday Arts.
Virginia hosted Drive on ABC Radio Melbourne, Mornings on 702 Sydney and Mornings on 774 Melbourne.
In 1995 she won Australian journalism's highest honour, the Walkley Award for her business reporting and in 2001 Virginia won a second Walkley for her landmark interview with the former Defence Minister, Peter Reith, over the notorious Children Overboard issue. She won a third Walkley in 2020 as part of the ABC News and Local radio team for her Black Summer coverage.
