My break… Sally Neighbour

Executive producer of the ABC‘s 7.30 shares her break into the industry in a feature that first appeared in Encore.

How did you get into producing TV?

That’s an interesting question. For all of my working life as a journalist – 33 years – I have been a reporter, first for radio, then television, then print.

It’s only been for the past year that I have been working as a producer, as EP of the ABC’s 7.30 program. Most of my time with the ABC was spent as a reporter on Four Corners, then I left the ABC to freelance, and spent a couple of years writing for The Australian and The Monthly magazine. By the end of 2011 I was ready for a change, and had found that it’s difficult to freelance in Australia with so few media outlets. A friend who was working at 7.30 alerted me to the fact they were looking for a new EP – I applied for it, and here I am.