Elaine Jung has been at the BBC in London for 10 years and has built a diverse career in international news and current affairs – from making documentaries to TV reporting and presenting. 

Her experience in creative storytelling, which involves filming, photography, video editing, and illustration, has seen her cover complex issues across the world. She has filmed paramedics in Afghanistan, reported on sex trafficking in the US, and tracked scientists through the remote Amazon Rainforest. 

Elaine’s investigative reporting has also led to political action. She produced and directed a documentary about a Danish birth control scandal in Greenland where thousands of Inuit women and girls had an IUD inserted in the 1960s and 1970s – often without consent. Elaine’s time on the island led to her uncovering recent cases of involuntary contraception which led to the launch of a national inquiry. Her work was recognised for human rights journalism in the 2023 Amnesty International Media Awards as a finalist for best feature story.  

Before joining the BBC, Elaine was a Features Editor in Berlin, Germany, for an online magazine. She began her career from her hometown of Perth, Australia, as a roaming video journalist for WIN TV before becoming the station's news anchor for its Western Australia audience and reporting for Channel Nine News.