Madeleine Morris is an award-winning international journalist and communications consultant, best known to Australian audiences as the finance presenter and newsreader on ABC’s flagship breakfast show, News Breakfast.
Madeleine enjoyed a long career in Australian and international media including as presenter of ABC/RMIT FackCheck, senior reporter for 7.30, AM and host on ABC radio, and 11 years in London at the BBC as a reporter and presenter. There she reported from more than 20 countries, including the US where she was Washington Reporter, and was a specialist in developing world issues including economics and health.
While at the BBC she was awarded a bursary for a project to study HIV messaging in Uganda and Zambia and won a prestigious One World Media Award for a documentary on India’s beleaguered micro-finance industry. She is the author of parental guide, Guilt-free bottle-feeding: why your formula-fed baby can be happy, healthy and smart. Her journalism has been published in The Times, Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Madeleine left ABC News Breakfast last year to pursue a career in the private sector and has been consulting with ASFA and other organisations since.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland, and post-graduate qualification from the London School of Economics and UTS.
