Mickie de Stoop
{{Infobox person
|name=Mickie de Stoop
|birth_name=Michele de Stoop
|occupation=television journalist and radio presenter
|years_active=1974 to present
|known_for=hosting television shows produced and presented by women for women
|television=No Man's Land, Shoulder to Shoulder
}}
Mickie de Stoop is an Australian former radio and television presenter.{{cite news |last=Ellard|first=Glenn|date=12 November 2012|title=Media high fliers put region in the picture |url=https://www.southcoastregister.com.au/story/975133/media-high-fliers-put-region-in-the-picture|work=South Coast Register|location= |access-date=29 December 2022}}
She is credited with helping improve the representation of female journalists on Australian television by hosting daytime current affairs programs in the 1970's that were produced and presented solely by women, including No Man's Land on GTV-9 and Shoulder to Shoulder on ATV-0.{{cite web |url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/women-who-made-australian-television-4-womens-and-childrens-programs|title=The women who made Australian TV (Part 4: Women's and Children's Programs)|last=Baker|first=Jeannine|date= |website=National Film and Sound Archive of Australia|publisher=Australian Government|access-date=28 December 2022|quote=}}
Television
Starting as a reporter on No Man's Land when it launched in March 1974, de Stoop succeeded the original host Tanya Halesworth.{{cite news |last=Kusko|first=Julie|date=20 March 1974|title=The women of No Man's Land|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51603942|work=The Australian Women's Weekly|location= |access-date=29 December 2022}}{{cite news|last=Musgrove|first=Nan|date=27 August 1975|title=No man's land |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55186048|work=The Australian Women's Weekly|location= |access-date=29 December 2022}} After the program was moved to another timeslot which producer Robyn Miller later described as "unworkable" and was also challenged by censorship, it was axed in 1976.
In 1976, a photograph of de Stoop appeared on the front cover of the Christmas edition of Melbourne's Sunday Observer TV magazine.{{cite news |author= |date=3 December 2007|title=Merry Christmas, '76 style|url=https://televisionau.com/2007/12/merry-christmas-76-style.html|work=Television.AU|location= |access-date=29 December 2022}}
De Stoop then hosted a program called Shoulder to Shoulder from 1977 to 1978 on ATV-0 but after the show was forced by management to be a light entertainment program rather than a current affairs program, it too was axed.
In 1988, de Stoop was part of the ambitious national Australia Live - Celebration of a Nation telecast, which was held as part of the Australian Bicentenary.{{cite news |last=Middleton|first=Karen|date=28 December 1987|title=No escape from the celebration of a nation|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122418454|work=The Canberra Times|location= |access-date=29 December 2022}} Her role during the telecast was to do a live cross from the Victorian High Country.
De Stoop was one of the many former GTV-9 personalities invited back to the original studios in Richmond in 2010 for a special farewell celebration prior to the building being demolished to make way for a new apartment complex.{{cite news |last=Knox|first=David|date=24 November 2010|title=Stars come out for Nine farewell|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2010/11/stars-come-out-for-nine-farewell.html|work=TV Tonight|location= |access-date=29 December 2022}}{{cite news |last=Knox|first=David|date=29 November 2010|title=Gallery: Lights, Cameras, Party!|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2010/11/gallery-lights-camera-party.html|work=TV Tonight|location= |access-date=29 December 2022}}
Radio
De Stoop has had a successful career as a radio presenter.
Throughout her career, de Stoop worked at a variety of radio stations including 2GB, 3DB, 2KY, and 2NC.{{cite news |author= |date=9 April 2020|title=2GB's The Garden Clinic celebrates 40 years on-air |url=https://www.mediaweek.com.au/2gbs-the-garden-clinic-celebrates-40-years-on-air/ |work=Mediaweek|location= |access-date=29 December 2022|quote=“I had been appearing every Wednesday on Mickie De Stoop’s afternoon show..."}}{{cite news |author= |date=23 January 1983|title=Guess whose sexy voice is about to come back to 2GB NewsTalk 87 (advertisement)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35277544/the-sydney-morning-herald/ |work=The Sun-Herald|location= |access-date=|quote=Tomorrow, Mickie de Stoop returns to afternoons on 2GB News Talk 87}}{{cite news|last=Newton|first=Bert|author-link=Bert Newton|date=1986|title=3DB, The New Beginning television commercial|work= |location=Melbourne, Victoria|quote=I'd like you to meet the new faces behind the new beginning... and our mid-morning star is Mickie de Stoop}}{{cite news |author= |date=7 April 1988|title=Casey to be sacked from 2KY|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/102077701|work=The Canberra Times|location= |access-date=29 December 2022|quote=Micki de Stoop is to take Mr. Casey's place temporarily}}{{cite web |url=https://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/release/transcript-7707|title=Bob Hawke interview with Mickie de Stoop, ABC RADIO NEWCASTLE|author= |date=15 August 1989|website=PM Transcripts|publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet|access-date=29 December 2022|quote=}}{{cite web |url=https://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/release/transcript-7896|title=Bob Hawke interview with Mickie de Stoop, ABC RADIO NEWCASTLE |author= |date=12 February 1990 |website=PM Transcripts|publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet|access-date=29 December 2022|quote=}}{{cite news |last=Long|first=Ash|date=28 October 2015 |title=Melbourne's own 3DB|page=2|url=https://issuu.com/mediaflash/docs/3db|work=Melbourne Observer|location= |access-date=29 December 2022|quote=The 3DB roll call included... Mickie de Stoop}}
Legacy
In 2014, entertainment reporter Peter Ford listed de Stoop as being one of five people in the Australian entertainment industry he personally believed to be a national living treasure.{{cite news |last=Knox|first=David|date=20 August 2014|title=Presenting our National Living TV Treasures….|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2014/08/presenting-our-national-living-tv-treasures.html|work=TV Tonight|location= |access-date=29 December 2022}} Despite describing his choice as "radical" and declaring his friendship with de Stoop, Ford said he named her in his list of five due to her pivotal role in hosting television programs that were presented by and for women which covered issues that weren't usually discussed on television at that time.
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Category:Australian journalists
Category:Australian women journalists
Category:Australian women radio presenters
Category:Australian women television journalists
Category:Television personalities from Melbourne