Journalist to speak in Woy Woy
Radio and television journalist Ms Karen Barlow will speak at a Friends of the ABC function from 2pm on Saturday, April 20, at the Peninsula Community Centre in Woy Woy.
Ms Barlow has worked for the ABC for the past 17 years after she began her career as the person who ran the scripts to the evening newsreader before landing an ABC cadetship in Hobart.
Currently a reporter at Lateline, she has also worked in radio current affairs, television news and as the breakfast newsreader and producer at Triple J.
She has covered several federal and state elections and in 2008 was part of the ABC's Beijing Olympic team.
Ms Barlow will recount her adventures over two summers as she travelled as a working journalist to the Antarctic.
"Both an amazing travelogue and personal recollection of intense personal experiences, Karen's story gives us an intimate insight into the life of a working journalist as well as incredible imagery of one of the remotest, yet increasingly human-affected, places on earth," said Friends of the ABC Central Coast co-convener Mr Klaas Woldring.
"Antarctica is a place where few people dare dream to tread.
"Karen Barlow's two voyages down south were no luxury cruises.
"Neither were they floating hardships.
"The time spent staffing a very temporary ABC Antarctic bureau was fun, frustrating and fascinating.
"Zipped up in special astronaut-like survival gear, climate research was witnessed at its most primal; collecting temperatures.
"Karen also found the time to lose a cameraman for two days and be attacked by a not-so-friendly parade of penguins," said Mr Woldring.
Media Release, 24 Feb 2013
Klaas Woldring, Friends of the ABC Central Coast