Philippa Jane "Pip" Courtney is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She is known for her work as a reporter and host of the

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series ''

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''. In 2000, she became a reporter on '' The 7.30 Report'', but returned to ''Landline'' in 2001.

Career

Courtney's father, Michael, was a journalist and editor of '' The Examiner''. She grew up in

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, and attended the

Launceston Church Grammar School Launceston Church Grammar School (informally Launceston Grammar or simply Grammar, commonly abbreviated to LCGS) is an Anglican co-educational private school in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia for Early Learning through to Grade 12. Although f ...

from 1977 to 1982. She then studied politics at the

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, where she resided at Christ College and graduated with a

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in 1986. In 1993, Courtney joined ''Landline'', where she met cameraman

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during her first shoot; they married on 28 January 1999. On 18 August 2011, Bean, television journalist

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and pilot Gary Ticehurst died in a helicopter crash while filming at

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. In 2011, Courtney received the Star Prize for Broadcast Journalism from the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists for her ''Landline'' report, "Pipe Dream", about the

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industry. In 2014 and 2015, she received Clarion Awards for her reports "Horns of a Dilemma" and "The Big Dry", respectively.

References

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