Elaine Jung has spent a decade at the BBC in London, building a diverse career in international news and current affairs — from making documentaries to reporting and presenting some of the world's most complex issues. 

Her storytelling spans filming, photography, video editing, and illustration, and has taken her from conflict zones to refugee homes, from mountain ranges to rainforests. Among her many assignments, she has filmed paramedics in Afghanistan, investigated sex trafficking in the US, hiked across Morocco’s Atlas Range to meet nomadic women, and tracked scientists deep into the Amazon.

Elaine’s investigative reporting has also driven government-level action. She produced and directed a documentary about a Danish birth control campaign in Greenland where thousands of Inuit women and girls were fitted with IUDs in the 1960s and 70s — often without consent. The film helped bring international attention to the issue and contributed to wider public and cultural reflection in Greenland and Denmark. During her time on the island, she also uncovered more recent cases of involuntary contraception from the 2000s onwards, which triggered a national inquiry that resulted in a formal apology in August 2025 and compensation for the women affected in early 2026. 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 Features Editor for an online magazine in Berlin. Her career, however, first took root in her hometown of Perth, where she began as a roaming video journalist for WIN TV before becoming the station’s news anchor for its Western Australian audience and later reporting for Channel Nine News.