Rochelle Jackson

Biography

TOPICS: AUTHOR, CRIME, LEGAL ISSUES

Rochelle Jackson is an author and a journalist. She published her first book In Your Face, The Life and Times of Billy ‘The Texan’ Longley (ABC Books) in July 2005. This book was short listed in the 2006 Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing and the 2006 Davitt Awards in the true crime categories.

Her next true-crime book Inside their Minds: Australian Criminals (Allen & Unwin) has just been published in August 2008. This book explores what makes a criminal. Rochelle’s been working with one of Australia’s leading forensic psychologists, Ian Joblin and looked at eight Australian criminals, talked to their family members and worked out what made them turn to a life of crime.

Rochelle has 18 years experience as an investigative journalist. She grew up in Melbourne in a police family. She began her career in country Victoria and Sydney working in television and radio. She has worked as a TV producer and investigative journalist for Today, Tonight, Australian Story, George Negus’s New Dimensions, Channel 9’s Watchdog, SBS TV and Radio services and TV NZ’s 60 Minutes.

She produced a one-hour documentary for ABC TV 50 Years of News & Current Affairs in Victoria which aired on December 8, 2006.

She specialises in crime and police stories and also produced a four-part series about Bush Fire Arson for ABC’s Radio National early 2006.

She writes for The Big Issue, the Herald Sun and had articles published in The Age. She also worked for the NSW Police Service.

Currently Rochelle works as a freelance journalist, works as a producer with ABC 774 and is a regular co-host with ABC broadcaster Derek Guille on the Evening program, with The Crime Couch.

Based in VIC – travels everywhere