Brianna is a broadcast journalist and videographer. She is currently working as a television producer and reporter in Melbourne, Australia for the ABC and SBS networks. She and freelances for Channel News Asia. She worked as Channel News Asia’s Melbourne Correspondent, covering features, breaking news and longform stories for the network during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is passionate about capturing documentary and feature stories that focus on human rights, conflict and climate change.

She has also worked as Roving Reporter and Emergency Communications Specialist for international humanitarian organisation, World Vision. She has worked under intense pressure in war and disaster zones to file stories and give live interviews about humanitarian crises. Her work has taken her to ground zero of some of the most tragic and challenging crises of our time, including the Ukraine-Russia war (2022 & 2023), the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the 2019 Ebola outbreak, southern Somalia’s on-going insurgency and hunger crisis, Indonesia’s earthquake and tsunami response (2018) and the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.

She previously worked as a TV reporter for the Seven and WIN Networks in Far North Queensland, covering daily news, including politics, court and crime. Brianna also covered radio feature stories in Peru at the age of 22 for SBS Radio.

Qualifications & Education:

Graduate Diploma in Human Rights Law, Melbourne University (2024 – 2025)

Cinema & Human Rights (summer school), Global Campus of Human Rights, Venice (2023)

Bachelor of Journalism & Diploma in Languages (Italian), Monash University (2010 – 2013)

Hostile Environment Awareness Training (2017 & 2022)

Documentary filmmaking (short course), RMIT (2015)

International Law and Humanitarian Action in Conflict – Australian Red Cross (2019)