Marnie Vinall speaks with former Matilda and current Melbourne City goalkeeper Melissa Barbieri on her career and the scope of women’s football in Australia today. The first official public women’s football game in Australia was played on September 24, 1921, at The Gabba in Brisbane to a crowd of 10,000 people. After this game, an …
We’ve seen welcome changes in sports media recently. Gemma Bastiani and Kirby Fenwick spoke to some of the women in sports media leading those changes. Marissa Lordanic describes her pathway into sports media as a story of “stubborn persistence”. “There’s definitely been times where I’ve thought to myself ‘what am I doing? I’m writing for …
Sports journalist Marnie Vinall jumped in feet first when working on Australia’s official Tokyo 2020 broadcast, and shares some things she learned in the process. When I got the call from Nick Barrow, Executive Producer of Sport at Channel Seven, asking if I wanted to join the Olympic coverage team for the Tokyo 2020 Games, …