Trina McLellan has worked for more than 15 years as a journalist in busy metropolitan newsrooms in both Queensland and Victoria.
That work has included:
- breaking news, general news, business, features, sport and in-depth reporting
- print, online, iPad and radio program production
- editing, layout, proofing and print production oversight
- most recently working as a radio program producer (for ABC Radio Brisbane)
- producing critical emergency broadcasting programs during Queensland’s unprecedented fires
- providing outside broadcast support, including contributing social media and photographic content for
- ABC War on Waste
- ABC Radio Brisbane Sounds of your City
- ABC Radio Brisbane Breakfast @ Parliament House 150
- ABC Radio Brisbane Day of Strawberry Sundaes @ King George Square
- ABC Radio Brisbane Open House
- ABC Radio Brisbane Breakfast Relaunch of Expo sign @ Caboolture Historical Village
- ABC Radio Brisbane Breakfast @ Ekka Opening Day
Earlier in 2018, Trina joined the casual radio producer pool at ABC Radio Brisbane. Since then she has worked on the station’s Breakfast, Drive, Weekends, Evenings and Emergency Broadcast programs as a production team member. She has experience as a solo producer and as a lead emergency broadcast producer.
From 2004, Trina spent eight years as a senior print, online and iPad production journalist. In these roles, she handled breaking, daily and weekly news environments for a wide range of News Corporation publications from that busy national news organisation’s News Queensland offices in Brisbane.
These mastheads included:
- The Courier-Mail (print editions)
- The Sunday Mail
- Courier-Mail Online
- Courier-Mail/Sunday Mail iPad editions
- AdelaideNow (Adelaide Advertiser’s website)
- Adelaide Advertiser/The Sunday Mail iPad editions
- News Corporation’s regional dailies: Gold Coast Bulletin, Townsville Bulletin, Cairns Post
- News Corporation’s community newspapers: all Quest Newspapers and Gold Coast Publications.
At News Queensland, Trina also developed and assisted in the delivery of newsroom integration training and conceived, designed and launched the (SharePoint-based) NewsCentral Intranet as well as an online, searchable Style wiki for use by News Limited staff across the nation.
She received two personal workplace achiever awards and was a member of three group achiever awards for her contributions to the company as it began its editorial transformation to meet the challenges of rapidly changing technology.
Early in her career, after graduating with her journalism degree, Trina first worked as a reporter and sub-editor at Sunshine Coast Daily and The Sunday Sun before moving to Victoria.
She worked as a reporter and sub-editor with major metropolitan Melbourne newspapers The Herald, The Sun, The Sunday Press and, briefly, for Business Daily.
Later, when she moved back to Queensland, she worked as the production editor at Business Queensland.
