Caroline Jones personal and professional papers, and pictorial material

fonds

1938-2024

Textual Records, Clippings, Ephemera, Objects, Medals, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings, Moving Images

9676377

4.76 metres of textual material (27 boxes and 1 outsize box), includes photographs
1051 negatives - 35 mm, 125 mm, 10 x 12 cm (4 x 5 format)
364 photographs - chiefly black and white
38 slides - colour - 35 mm
16 drawings
4 medals - silver, bronze
1 object - cloth
1 videocassette - VHS
11 videodiscs - DVD
5 computer discs - CD-ROM, microdisk
1 computer chip cartridge - USB flash drive

Caroline Jones (1938-2022) was a journalist, radio and television broadcaster, and author. She was born Caroline Mary James, in Canberra, and grew up in Murrurundi, NSW.

She began work at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Canberra in 1963 and later joined Australia's first national nightly current affairs program, This Day Tonight. She was also the first woman to anchor Four Corners from 1972 to 1981.

From 1977 to 1981 she presented the ABC Sydney morning radio program City Extra on 2BL, and between 1987 and 1994 she also produced and presented a spiritually-focused radio program called The Search For Meaning on ABC Radio National, on which people told the stories of their lives. Between 1996 and 2016 Jones presented the weekly biographical program Australian Story on ABC television.

Jones was a founding member of the Australia Council for the Arts (1973) and the National Film Board of Review (1971).

In recognition of her contribution to radio and television journalism, Jones received the Officer of the Order of Australia in 1988 and was voted as one of Australia's 100 National Living Treasures in 1997. In 2013, she was awarded a Walkley Award for her outstanding contribution to journalism and was appointed National Patron of Women in Media, a mentoring and networking program initiated by the MEAA (Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance) and the Walkley Foundation for Excellence in Journalism.

As well as a series of books based on the Search for Meaning programmes, Jones has published two autobiographical books - An Authentic Life - Finding Meaning and Spirituality in Everyday Life (1998, 2005), and Through A Glass Darkly, A Journey Of Love and Grief With My Father (2009).

Reference:
Library correspondence file

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Caroline Jones personal and professional papers

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Caroline Jones pictorial material

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