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Anita Jacoby

Anita Jacoby is an Australian film producer, television producer, and magazine editor. She has worked on a number of programmes on commercial and public television, including 60 Minutes, The Today Show, and Enough Rope.Jacoby grew up in Killara, the daughter of refugees displaced during the Second World War; her father from Germany and her mother from Russia, via China. Growing up, Jacoby aspired to a career in the creative industries, although she was expelled from Pymble Ladies' College in Year 10 for "being a pretty adventurous and difficult 15 year old determined to push the boundaries." Before producing television, she had a number of jobs in the media industry including a role as a subeditor at The Australian Women's Weekly and as a researcher for children's television programme, Simon Townsend's Wonder World. She worked on radio broadcaster John Laws' short-lived cable TV show, securing for Laws the final interview with fugitive businessman Christopher Skase. She rose through the ranks to supervising producer at The Today Show, but was never promoted to executive producer, with a man being promoted ahead of her on every occasion where the position became vacant. Wikipedia