Pip Courtney
Host of Landline
The daughter of well known print journalist and editor Michael Courtney, Pip grew up in Tasmania and studied politics and English at University.
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Pip Courtney has been reporting for the ABC’s national rural affairs program Landline for 30 years and has been host since 2012.
She‘s won numerous journalism awards for her reporting on agriculture, business, sport, the environment, medicine and education.
Career highlights include being named Queensland Journalist of the Year in 2007 with colleague Sally Sara and winning the International Star Prize for Agricultural Journalism in 2011.
Pip was inducted into Queensland’s Rural Journalism Hall of Fame in 2018, and most recently won the 2024 National Star Prizes for Rural Broadcasting.
Born and bred in Tasmania Pip took up a graduate cadetship at the ABC in Hobart in 1986, working in radio and television news.
She worked for the 7.30 Report in Melbourne but is best known for her rural reporting, which began when she moved to Canberra on the “Mainland” in 1993 to work for Landline.
Melbourne followed but she’s now based in Brisbane.
Rural reporting has taken Pip to every Australian state and territory, as well as China, Peru, Timor Leste, the USA, Cambodia and Laos.
She has been an MC, keynote speaker and panel moderator for over a decade.
As well as story-hunting and storytelling, Pip loves Tasmania, horses, cats, champagne and sheep.
