Award winning producer, Jennifer Macey has been working in audio for the past 20 years, starting out in community radio and working in newsrooms at the ABC and DW Radio, producing both short and documentary length audio features.

She has covered numerous UN Climate Change conferences and the UN Tsunami donors conference in Jakarta in 2004. 

As an independent podcast producer, Jennifer tackles all subjects big or small. She has spoken to kids about death, grief and resilience and walked in muddy creeks in an industrial heartland on a geography field trip. She has interviewed Prime Ministers, scientists, whistleblowers, artists, farmers, coal miners, teachers, refugees, activists, community leaders, volunteers and children. 

Jennifer is currently producing a weekly special podcast on how Covid19 is affecting the economy for The Australia Institute’s podcast Follow the Money . In 2019, she hosted and produced a three-part special How to Make a Whistleblower for the Canberra-based think tank. Jennifer is working on the third season of The Colour Cycle at a time where issues about race and representation are critically important.

In 2019, Jennifer turned the microphone on herself, producing the personal and moving feature Kangaroo Cuddles for ABC RN’s Earshot program. Kangaroo Cuddles won Gold at the 2021 New York Radio Festivals in the Health/Medical category and Bronze in the Social Issues category. In 2016 she along with UK based radio producer Jo Upton won third place in KCRW’s Radio Race with A Secret Garden. Her short audio story Apeeling Price won the judges prize at the 2016 Audiocraft Short Feature Awards.

As a podcast executive producer, Jennifer has worked closely with organisations to shape the design and concept of their podcasts including This Kid Life for the Sydney Opera House interviewing children and creating the sound design for The Colour Cycle which included creating special shorter ‘segments’ within each episode. 

As a podcasting teacher, Jennifer designed a workshop for young people in care to co-produce a podcast called More than Just a Kid in Care and is mentoring young citizen journalists from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds as part of Diversity Arts Australia’s Storycasters program. She teaches Podcasting at the University of Wollongong.