Sally Sara

Sally Sara is an award-winning journalist, writer and author. She has reported from more than 40 countries as a foreign correspondent with the ABC, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone.

Sally has won two Walkley Awards, one for television news and the other for radio. She has twice been a finalist in the Graham Perkin Award — Australian Journalist of the Year.

She has won four UN Media Awards and been nominated for AACTA and Logie Awards. In 2007 she was selected as the International Women’s Media Foundation Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow in Washington DC.

Sally has written for the New York Times and Boston Globe. Her book, GOGO MAMA, profiled the lives of 12 African women and was longlisted for the Walkley Non-Fiction Book Award.

In 2011, Sally was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia, AM, for service to journalism and the community. She grew up in town of Port Broughton in South Australia.