Background
Emma Alberici was born to Franco (from Boretto near Milan), a cabinetmaker who worked at the Victoria Market, and Anna Alberici (from the island of Ischia, off Naples).
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Education
The family settled in Melbourne, where Alberici attended Our Lady of Mercy College in Heidelberg, Victoria.
Career
As a television presenter for over twenty years, she has a strong reputation for independence and integrity. Her earlier American Broadcasting Company roles were as a finance reporter on The 7.30 Report, presenter of the now defunct Business Breakfast, the American Broadcasting Company"s Europe correspondent, and as the general finance reporter for American Broadcasting Company television and Radio. Previously she was a reporter and producer with A Current Affair on Australia"s Nine Network.
Her parents are Italian immigrants who arrived in Australia by passenger liner in 1955.
She later studied Journalism and Economics at Deakin University. At Melbourne University, Alberici completed a Bachelor in Italian.
Her journalistic career began as cadet with the Melbourne tabloid Herald Sun. She also helped create "The Small Business Show" at the Nine Network.
Alberici has twice been a finalist in the Walkley Awards for journalism.
Both nominations were for investigative reports, the first being her report on the death of a patron at Star City Casino in 1998. lieutenant was Alberici"s reports surrounding that event, including exclusive interviews with witnesses, family and friends, that prompted a police integrity commission inquiry. She authored The Small Business Book which became a high selling volume.
Alberici began hosting the American Broadcasting Company"s flagship current affairs program in 2012, when she replaced Ali Moore.
She co-hosts alongside Tony Jones. The program has been labelled by the influential Crikey magazine as being, "an unmissable current affairs program that almost certainly creates more headlines in the next day"s newspapers than any other television show in the country.".
Politics
Has developed a reputation for setting the agenda when it comes to Australian news and is well known for featuring head-to-head debates on current issues and hard hitting political interviews.
