Meet the Team

Producer: Fanou Filali

Fanou Filali is a French Moroccan journalist, TV producer and filmmaker, who has lived in Australia for 14 years.

She first joined the Insight team in 2000 after completing her Masters in journalism at the University of Technology in Sydney (UTS). 

In 2005, Fanou took a year off in France to spend time with her young family before returning to Sydney as a correspondent for French international news channel France 24, covering stories in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.
  
Fanou recently completed a film director course at the Australian Film and Television Radio School (AFTRS).

She rejoined the Insight team in 2011.

In her spare time, Fanou dances the tango.

PROGRAMS:
21 February 2012: Iran
27 September 2011: Hacktivism
16 August 2011: Beauty Race

Producer: Meggie Palmer

Driven by a passion for people and their stories, Meggie completed a double degree in journalism and business at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

She began her career with Network Ten working in the Brisbane and Gold Coast newsrooms, as well as the Press Gallery in Canberra. She was awarded Queensland Young Journalist of the Year in 2008.

A travel stint and move to London saw Meggie working for BBC World News, CNBC and Channel 7 covering news across Europe including the canonisation of Mary MacKillop and the London student riots. 

Meggie also had the opportunity to combine her flair for production and travel by directing and producing a travel adventure show in Southern Africa and a reality TV show which was filmed in Zimbabwe.

Most recently she was a senior journalist for 6.30 With George Negus. She investigated the issue of child sex offenders receiving custody of their children and also covered the Christchurch Earthquake and Queensland floods.

You can follow her on Twitter @MeggiePalmer.

Presenter: Jenny Brockie

Jenny is one of Australia's most respected journalists. She's won journalism's top award  - the Gold Walkley - as well as a swag of others for her work as a journalist and documentary maker. As host of Insight, she's renowned for her skill and fairness, ensuring as many voices as possible are heard.
 
Jenny brings warmth, humour and a forensic attention to detail to Insight. She has reported extensively across television and radio on major international and local events.

Jenny has also produced and directed a string of acclaimed documentaries including the multi-award winning Cop It Sweet about Sydney's Redfern police. She has hosted her own morning radio show on 702 ABC Sydney, television interview program Speaking Personally on ABC TV,  and has worked as a senior reporter on Four Corners and Nationwide. She joined Insight in 2001.

Producer: Jane Worthington

Jane started as a cadet at The Newcastle Herald in 1992, and won Prodi Awards for feature writing, as well as the Northern NSW Journalist of the Year Award.

Later she became a feature writer for Scotland’s Edinburgh Evening News and was deputy director of the Walkley Foundation for Journalism and associate editor of The Walkley Magazine.

After joining SBS in 2007, Jane spent four years with Dateline as an interview producer for George Negus - a job that took her round the world with assignments from Bangladesh to Norway.

In 2010, she was the Series Producer for SBS’s The Late Session with Waleed Aly.

Jane joined Insight at the start of 2011.

PROGRAMS:
25 October 2011: Privacy
13 September 2011: Online Gambling
6 September 2011: Revenge
3 May 2011: Gay in School

Producer: Kate Mayhew

Kate joined Insight in 2007.

After getting her degree in Journalism from Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Kate worked at UNICEF Australia as its Media Advisor. In that role she travelled throughout South East Asia and spent time in Banda Aceh, Jakarta, Thailand, Bangladesh and East Timor.

Kate started at Insight as an Associate Producer and has worked on programs ranging from the state of hospital emergency departments to censorship of art and whether anti-Islamic sentiment is on the rise in Australia.

PROGRAMS:
31 October 2011: Clubland
23 August 2011: Tampa
21 September 2010: Banning the Burqa (Associate Producer)

Producer: Sarah Allely

Sarah joined Insight in 2008.

She began her journalism career at a newspaper in Auckland, before travelling to Serbia as a music magazine correspondent to cover the Echo festival, held on a Belgrade island in the Danube River.

Later, Sarah wrote about US politics for the Sydney Morning Herald and was a staff reporter on Fairfax newspapers in Sydney and Wollongong.
 
In 2007, she won the Media Entertainment Arts Alliance South East Australia Regional Journalism Award for Excellence in Print Journalism.
 
For her first two Insight programs Sarah travelled around the US, talking to people about the presidential election and the American dream. 

In her spare time Sarah produces a food blog.
 

PROGRAMS:
20 September 2011: Coal Seam Gas
2 August 2011: Power Play
7 June 2011: Talking Suicide

Producer: Skye Docherty

Skye holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Literature, and a Masters in International Journalism.

Skye previously worked in London as a print journalist where she was employed by The Sunday Times.
 
She has also had articles and opinion pieces published in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian.

Since joining SBS in 2004, Skye has produced programs on topics ranging from cultural clashes to post natal depression and proving rape in the legal system.

PROGRAMS:
19 April 2011: Under Fire
12 April 2011: Narcissism
29 March 2011: Anxiety
22 September 2009: Coping with Baby