Jo Robin is the digital journalist and producer with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s North America bureau.

She graduated with a master’s degree and honors from Columbia Journalism School in New York in August 2021.

Jo was previously Melbourne assistant editor for Broadsheet, where she began as a subeditor in 2017, before launching the national Things to Do section as its editor a year later.

She was communications manager for broadcaster Sally Warhaft’s mayoral campaign; a freelance copy editor for the County Court of Victoria; and a senior news producer at Mamamia, Australia’s top independent women’s media company.

Jo completed a graduate diploma in journalism at RMIT in 2013. Her byline has appeared on ABC News, The New Republic, Broadsheet, Mamamia, 9Honey, Crikey and more.


Recent Work





















Dec 2021

The New Republic

TNR’s 10 Best Stories of 2021

(TNR: Dale May and Stephen Voss)






Aug 2021

Columbia Journalism School M.S. Program



Mar 2021

Columbia Journalism School M.S. Program


Mar 2021

Columbia Journalism School M.S. Program


Mar 2021

Columbia Journalism School M.S. Program




MAR 2020

Broadsheet



DEC 2019

Broadsheet


OCT 2019

Broadsheet


AUG 2019

Broadsheet

The Mystery of the Moreland Hotel

(Broadsheet: Jake Roden)


MAY 2019

Broadsheet


FEB 2019

Broadsheet


NOV 2018

Broadsheet

Spring Cleaning 101

(Broadsheet: Brook James)

NOV 2018

Broadsheet


OCT 2018

Broadsheet



JUN 2018

Broadsheet

A Feminist Zine That Can’t Be Ignored

(Supplied: Eat If You’re Hungry)

APR 2017

Mamamia