Emma Alberici is an Australian journalist and television presenter who is the chief economics correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Alberici was until 2017 the presenter of the ABC's flagship current affairs program, Lateline. She has worked as a reporter for the ABC's The 7.30 Report and Lateline, and was also a reporter and producer with A Current Affair on Australia's Nine Network.
Alberici's journalistic career began as cadet with the Melbourne tabloid Herald Sun. She was a reporter on The Small Business Show at the Nine Network. Alberici has twice been a finalist in the Walkley Awards for journalism. Both nominations were for investigative reports, the first being her report on the death of a patron at Star City Casino in 1998. It was Alberici's reports surrounding that event, including exclusive interviews with witnesses, family and friends, that prompted a police integrity commission inquiry. She authored The Small Business Book. On 10 April 2018 she was found by ABC management to have made several errors and omissions in articles she wrote regarding the Australian taxation system.
''Lateline''
Alberici began hosting the ABC's flagship current affairs program Lateline in 2012, when she replaced Ali Moore. She co-hosted alongside Tony Jones. The program was labelled as being, "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 style, she said accusations of bias were "nonsense", and that "People are far quicker to attack a woman in public than they would a man." In October 2017, ABC announced that after 28 years Lateline would be cut as the broadcaster launches new investigative and specialist journalism teams. Alberici will become the ABC's chief economics correspondent.
Personal life
Alberici was married to Jason McCauley, a sound recordist on 60 Minutes. They separated in 2017. She has three children and resides in Sydney. Alberici has also lived in London, England, where she was based as the ABC's Europe correspondent.
