Business Today provides a comprehensive wrap-up of business news across the Asia Pacific region.
From the latest company reports to the big issues facing Asian economies, along with expert analysis of market trends, BT gives you all the facts you need to take advantage of the opportunities shaping business and finance.
BT's team of specialist reporters help make sense of the fast-moving world of finance, reporting on the issues shaping the news agenda, as well as insightful interviews with opinion leaders and innovators.
If you not only want to know what the market is doing but why, then Business Today is the best way of keeping in touch with what is happening in business.
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Whitney Fitzsimmons
Whitney Fitzsimmons is a well-known face throughout the Asia Pacific region and has been a presenter with the ABC's international channel, Australia Network, for the past five years.
She is the host of Business Today, Australia Network's leading business and finance program, broadcast daily throughout the Asia Pacific region with a viewing audience of 40 million, and has been anchoring the program since it began in August 2006.
In this role she has interviewed many key business leaders, analysts and politicians, about critical economic and financial issues concerning the region. Most notable interviews include Helen Liddell, Britain's High Commissioner to Australia; Simon Crean, Australia's Minister for Trade; Dr Marie Pangestu, Indonesia's Minister of Trade and Lalit Mansingh, India's former Foreign Minister.
Previously Whitney was a news presenter for Australia Network and anchored major world events such as the July 7 London bombings; the devastation of Hurricane Katrina; the Palestinian elections and the demise of Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon.
In her role as a news presenter, Whitney also took the opportunity to interview leading world figures, such as Lord Chris Patton, Britain's last Governor of Hong Kong; Vikram Seth, award-winning author; Dr David Nabarro, UN System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza and Don McKinnon, Secretary General of the Commonwealth.
During her seven years at the ABC, Whitney has been a senior producer for the award-winning national current affairs program, Lateline. She has also reported on general and business stories nationally for the ABC's domestic news service.
In 2008 she was awarded a fellowship from the Asia Pacific Journalism Centre. She has also anchored the summer edition of the ABC's national Midday news bulletin and the current affairs programme AustraliaWide.
Before joining the ABC, Whitney worked as a freelance reporter and producer for the Seven Network, Sky News Australia, radio 2GB, 2CH and 3AW, filing general news and business stories daily. Prior to her freelance work, Whitney spent two years as a reporter and producer for the global financial network CNBC.
Alicia Barry
Alicia joined Business Today in 2007 as an experienced finance journalist. She has reported on many significant events, extensively covering the recent financial market turmoil and the global food crisis.
Alicia began her career as a radio journalist before developing a passion for financial news which led her to a position with Sky Business News in Sydney. For the two and a half years she was a significant member of the business team and honed her reporting and interviewing skills.
She is currently completing a post-graduate diploma in Investment and Financial Markets and has a journalism degree from Charles Sturt University.
Scott Alle
Scott joined Business Today in October 2007 as supervising producer.
He got his start in television in 1989 after completing a Business degree, majoring in Communications at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.
He then worked as a reporter for the Nine and Ten Networks in Australia, covering everything from crime to business and sport, before joining the ABC in 1995. Since then he has reported on major financial and business stories including the Asian Financial Crisis, the dot.com meltdown and, more recently, the US sub-prime mortagage crisis.
He is also a regular traveller to Asia, with close family and friends in Singapore and Hong Kong, enabling him to get a firsthand appreciation of the issues facing economies in the region.
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