Fairfax journo joins Four Corners

Sydney Morning Herald environment editor Marian Wilkinson is joining the Four Corners team.

Wilkinson has previously worked as an Executive Producer of Four Corners, but more recently has been writing for Fairfax newspapers including the The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

With a career spanning radio, television and print, she has covered politics, national security, terrorism and refugees issues and served as a foreign correspondent in Washington DC.

She recently covered the Copenhagen climate change conference.

“Marian is a formidable journalist with an impressive track record. She will be an important addition to the Four Corners team and I am delighted that we have her on board, once again,” said Executive Producer, Sue Spencer.

In 2008, Wilkinson reported on the rapid melt of Arctic sea ice for a joint  Four Corners-Sydney Morning Herald production which won a Walkley Award for journalism as well as the Australian Museum’s Eureka prize for environmental journalism.

She will commence work at the ABC on March 1st.

Four Corners returns to screens on February 8th.