Pip Courtney
{{Short description|Australian journalist and television presenter}}
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Philippa Jane "Pip" Courtney{{cite web|last1=Courtney|first1=Pip|title=Time to Reflect and Celebrate|url=http://blogs.abc.net.au/theoverflow/2011/03/25-years.html|publisher=ABC|accessdate=24 July 2015|date=24 March 2011}} is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She is known for her work as a reporter and host of the ABC series Landline.{{cite news|last1=Glasser|first1=Rose|title=Pip Courtney takes Landline's centre stage|url=http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/news/agriculture/agribusiness/general-news/pip-courtney-takes-landlines-centre-stage/2446344.aspx|accessdate=9 June 2015|work=Queensland Country Life|date=12 February 2012}} In 2000, she became a reporter on The 7.30 Report, but returned to Landline in 2001.{{cite web|title=Pip Courtney|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/pip-courtney/2843514|publisher=ABC News|accessdate=9 June 2015}}
Career
Courtney's father, Michael, was a journalist and editor of The Examiner. She grew up in Launceston, Tasmania, and attended the Launceston Church Grammar School from 1977 to 1982. She then studied politics at the University of Tasmania, where she resided at Christ College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986.{{cite journal|last1=Grube|first1=Kathy|title=Pip Courtney: Looking forward, looking back|journal=Alumni News|date=June 2010|issue=37|pages=4–5|url=http://www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/47411/AlumniNews37.pdf|accessdate=9 June 2015|publisher=University of Tasmania}} In 1993, Courtney joined Landline,{{cite web|title=Pip Courtney|date=November 2006 |url=http://www.abc.net.au/profiles/content/s1889141.htm|publisher=ABC|accessdate=9 June 2015}} where she met cameraman John Bean during her first shoot; they married on 28 January 1999.{{cite news|last1=Dalton|first1=Trent|title=The search for fragments of love|url=http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/ipad/messages-from-beyond/story-fn3o6wog-1226300371492|accessdate=10 June 2015|work=The Advertiser|date=17 March 2012}} On 18 August 2011, Bean, television journalist Paul Lockyer and pilot Gary Ticehurst died in a helicopter crash while filming at Lake Eyre in South Australia.{{cite news|title=ABC mourns news crew killed in helicopter crash|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/abc-mourns-news-crew-killed-in-helicopter-crash-20110819-1j0n7.html|accessdate=25 January 2016|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=19 August 2011}}
In 2011, Courtney received the Star Prize for Broadcast Journalism from the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists for her Landline report, "Pipe Dream", about the coal seam gas industry.{{cite news|title=Pip Courtney tops agricultural journalism awards|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-19/pip-courtney-wins-award/2906528|accessdate=10 June 2015|publisher=ABC News|date=20 September 2011}} In 2014 and 2015, she received Clarion Awards for her reports "Horns of a Dilemma" and "The Big Dry", respectively.{{cite news|title=ABC Landline's Pip Courtney wins 2014 Clarion for rural journalism|url=http://www.ruralpressclub.com.au/news/abc-landlines-pip-courtney-wins-2014-clarion-for-rural-journalism-107|date=31 August 2014|accessdate=6 April 2016|work=Rural Press Club}}{{cite news|title=Landline wins 2015 Qld Clarion for The Big Dry|url=http://ruralpressclub.com.au/news/landline-wins-2015-qld-clarion-for-the-big-dry|date=30 August 2015|accessdate=6 April 2016|work=Rural Press Club}}
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Category:People educated at Launceston Church Grammar School
Category:Australian television presenters
Category:Australian women journalists
Category:21st-century Australian journalists
Category:People from Launceston, Tasmania
Category:University of Tasmania alumni