Emma Alberici Biography
Emma Alberici is an Australian journalist and former foreign correspondent who worked as the ABC television network’s chief economics correspondent.
How old is Emma Alberici? – Age
She is 53 years old as of 3 February 2023. She was born in 1970 in Melbourne, Australia.
Emma Alberici Family – Education
She is the daughter of Franco and Anna Alberici. Her parents are Italian immigrants who arrived in Australia in 1955 on a passenger liner. Alberici attended Our Lady of Mercy College in Heidelberg, Victoria, after the family relocated to Melbourne. Alberici graduated from Deakin University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and economics and the University of Melbourne with a bachelor’s degree in Italian.
Who is Emma Alberici’s partner? – Husband
Alberici was married to Jason McCauley, a 60 Minutes sound recordist. They divorced in 2017. She lives in Sydney with her three children.
Emma Alberici Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Emma Alberici Lateline
Alberici took over as host of the ABC’s main current affairs program Lateline in 2012, replacing Ali Moore. She shared the hosting duties with Tony Jones. The show was dubbed “an unmissable current affairs program that almost certainly creates more headlines in the next day’s newspapers than any other TV show in the country.” Following criticism of her interview technique, she stated that claims of bias were “nonsense” and that “people are far quicker to attack a woman in public than they would a man.”
After 28 years, ABC announced in October 2017 that Lateline would be axed as the channel introduces new investigative and specialty journalism teams. Alberici was then named ABC’s chief economics correspondent.
Emma Alberici Bender Accident
In June 2019, she nearly loses her fingers in a stick blender mishap. After a terrifying mishap in the kitchen, Alberici needed emergency surgery to preserve her fingers. Alberici took to Twitter this morning to express gratitude to her surgery team at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick. The ABC’s lead economics correspondent revealed that the tragedy occurred while she was attempting to clean her stick blender.
Emma Alberici Career
Alberici produced a news story for the ABC website on 14 February 2018 presenting evidence that only one in every five large corporations pays Australian tax, as well as an analysis piece critical of the (then Liberal) government’s proposed company tax cuts. Later that day in parliament, Malcolm Turnbull, the Prime Minister at the time, described the news piece as “one of the most confused and poorly researched articles I’ve seen on this topic.”
The ABC later removed both the news story and the commentary, stating that they violated editorial standards. Alberici hired a lawyer to negotiate with ABC management, and both articles were altered and reposted a week later. Since other economic commentators had also questioned the merits of company tax cuts, other media outlets speculated that Malcolm Turnbull had put pressure on the ABC to withdraw the story. They also claimed that the government was unfairly targeting the ABC. Later, other media outlets received a copy of a letter that Alberici’s lawyer sent to the ABC Managing Director. “That she is the cause of the ‘prime minister ringing him’ with complaints,” it said, referring to the head of ABC News.
In April 2018, in light of the Australian Senate, the ABC guaranteed it had tracked down various mistakes or deceiving explanations in Alberici’s story, and that her examination piece needed unbiasedness. The ABC has been accused of “buckling to government pressure” by former journalists.
Alberici produced a number of television shows for ABC’s Foreign Correspondent instead of writing much more on economics after this episode. The ABC terminated her employment in 2020. She settled with the ABC after making a complaint to the Fair Work Ombudsman.