Zoe Daniel - Storyteller

Since the 1930s the ABC’s foreign correspondents have reported on the events that have shocked and moved us. They are our storytellers, covering traumatic events at a moment’s notice, filing stories on the harrowing, the inspiring and the unfathomable – for multiple programs across radio, television and online.

Zone Daniel is the ABC;’s fifteenth South East Asia Correspondent, and one of only a handful of women to combine one of the most dangerous jobs in the world with one of the most demanding – motherhood.

From the political unrest in Bangkok and the bittersweet story on conjoined twins in India, to a tragic plane crash in Laos and the destruction of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, Storyteller is a frank and brave memoir, as much about the events that capture our attention as it is about a personal story on the universal juggle of work, ambition and family amid the unpredictability of life and the predictability of the 24/7 media cycle.

Storyteller is a timely reminder of the bravery and audacity of the men and women who bring us the news – the journalist, the local ‘fixer’, the cameramen - but about all it is a tribute to ordinary people who find themselves eyewitnesses to the extraordinary.