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Kaitlyn Sawrey

As seen in: MSN Australia, ABC News (Australia), Gimlet Media, The Monthly
Covers:  mental health, environment, arts and culture, youth, politics, sexual health, indigenous, technology
Director @f_kmedia. Host of Spotify's 'Who is Daniel Johns?' Co-founder @ScienceVs. ex @gimletmedia/@spotify NYC, @triplejHack, ABC.
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Kaitlyn Sawrey’s Biography

Kaitlyn Sawrey is a multimedia journalist based in Sydney for triple j's current affairs program, [Hack] (http://triplej.net.au/hack).

Weekdays from 5:30 – 6pm Hack dissects the issues that matter to young Australians and is regularly rated as the #1 News and Politics iTunes podcast in Australia. From February 2011 through till March 2012, Kaitlyn drove the direction of the program as the Acting Executive Producer. The Hack team won the non-print media category at the Australian Suicide Prevention Awards for their coverage of mental health issues in 2011.

Previously Kaitlyn was heard on the airwaves daily as Hack’s Queensland reporter from 2005 - 2011, as well as contributing to ABC Local Radio, Radio Australia, Radio National, Newsradio and ABC24. She has reported on youth suicide from one of Australia’s most remote settlements, trekked across Cape York to produce a half-hour documentary on the controversial Wild Rivers legislation and interviewed Prime Minister Julia Gillard in her previous role as Deputy. During the deadly 2011 Queensland floods she was seconded to Toowoomba to report across ABC radio networks. Kaitlyn received a Commended Award, Young Radio Journalist of the Year from the Young Walkley Awards in 2009.

Throughout most of 2012 Kaitlyn explored Central and North America – living in a treehouse in Nicaragua, hiking the cloud forests of Costa Rica, riding a golden art-car dragon across the Burning Man playa and meeting former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

In 2013 Kaitlyn is back on board as a producer-journalist-multimedia-machine and is looking forward to finding the human side of a complicated story.