Personal profile

Biography

Stephanie Corsetti started her media career in community radio in 2007. She then became a traffic reporter and producer at ABC Radio Melbourne.

During this time, she contributed to the award-winning Kinglake radio station in the aftermath of the Black Saturday bushfires, helping communities to recover from the disaster. Stephanie shifted to the ABC newsroom after completing her cadetship in 2011. She completed a stint with the radio current affairs team in Melbourne filing national stories for the AM, The World Today and PM in 2017. She was shortlisted for a Melbourne Press Club Quill award in 2016 in the regional category for a domestic violence report. She has worked in the Bendigo and Mildura ABC offices in regional Victoria and done short-term stints at Horsham during the Grampians fires and the Sydney ABC headquarters in 2017. At the ABC, Stephanie won Best TV News Story at the Rural Press Club of Victoria awards in 2019 and scored the Victorian Multicultural Commission Media Award in 2020 for SBS News. Both awards were for her coverage of failures in the family violence system.

During her four years at SBS news and current affairs, Stephanie filed television reports for the nightly World News bulletin, NITV News and contributed digital content to the youth brand, The Feed. She also juggled teaching at RMIT students coordinating their delivery of RRR live news bulletins. Her other experience as a tutor is in Media Psychology at the University of Melbourne. 

Her main passion is podcasting, with SBS News launching her own original series 'To The Extreme' which won best audio report at the 2023 NSW Premier's Multicultural Communications Awards. Stephanie produces her own independent podcast called 'Unnamed in Lights' on Spotify.

Steph is now a full-time lecturer and tutor in Audio Lab. 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

Media and Communications, Honours, Interactive identities on Twitter: adolescents in an online celebrity culture, University of Melbourne

20092010

Award Date: 21 Dec 2010

External positions

Women in Media committee