Kellie Riordan is the founding editor of ABC Audio Studios, a podcast production house responsible for some of Australia’s most popular podcasts, including…
Conversations (Australia’s #1 podcast)
Ladies We Need To Talk
The Eleventh
No Feeling is Final
Short & Curly
The Pineapple Project
Unravel True Crime
Fierce Girls
How Do You Sleep At Night
Finding Drago
Judith Lucy Overwhelmed and Dying
CrossBread
Mackaroy Uncovered
Kellie’s focus at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation was to create compelling and engaging on-demand audio and podcasts for current and new audiences.
Kellie is a dynamic speaker and facilitator. Her speaking engagements have included…
RAIN Global Podcast Leadership Summit (2020)
Podcast Movement (Florida, 2019)
Audioland (Sydney, 2019)
Mumbrella360 (Sydney, 2019)
Ozpod (2016–2019)
Radio Days Podcast Days (Copenhagen, 2018)
Vivid Festival (Sydney, 2018)
Remix (Sydney, 2017)
International Journalism Festival (Italy, 2015)
Kellie was a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University in 2014, where she published a widely-regarded paper on editorial standards in the digital age.
Kellie’s been a leader for several ABC Radio teams, specialising in talent development, airchecking and editorial standards.
Kellie was the Content Director of metropolitan radio station 612 ABC Brisbane from 2006–2010. She’s been an executive producer of current affairs program Mornings, a presenter with ABC Coast FM, and a reporter with triple j’s current affairs program Hack.
Kellie was the founding producer of the award-winning Conversations with Richard Fidler, which is still Australia’s most popular podcast.
She’s won a Third Coast Award (for the podcast No Feeling Is Final), two Queensland Media Awards, two OPSO Media Awards, and was named ABC Radio’s Producer of the Year in 2007.
Podcasts Kellie’s commissioned and led have won everything from Webby Awards (Short & Curly and Ladies We Need To Talk) and Walkley Awards (Unravel: Blood On The Tracks), to Australian Podcast Awards (The Pineapple Project and Fierce Girls), the South Australian Media Awards (The Parenting Spectrum) and Kennedy nominations (The Eleventh).
Many of her podcast have been crowned by Apple Podcasts as the most downloaded or best shows of the year, including the Alice Fraser Trilogy, The Pineapple Project, and Conversations.
She won the ABC’s Donald McDonald scholarship to study in Oxford in 2014 and as a news reporter was short-listed for the prestigious Andrew Olle scholarship for young Australian journalists.
She holds a Bachelor of Business degree (journalism major) from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and a Diploma of Management, and was a fellow at Oxford University in 2014.
