Jesse Cox (1986 – December 2017) was an Australian radio producer, broadcaster, and documentary maker.

Career

Throughout his broadcasting career, Jesse Cox worked for Sydney's

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, and was head of original content at

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's APAC office. In 2012, Cox also formed his own company, ''Creative Nonfiction'' to explore digital storytelling. Cox's 2012 radio documentary for Radio National's 360documentaries, ''Keep Them Guessing'', won the Directors' Choice Award in the 2013

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/ Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Cox's radio documentary ''The Real Tom Banks'' won the Best Documentary - Silver Award at the 2014

Third Coast International Audio Festival The Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF or TCF), based in Chicago, curates audio stories from around the world and showcases them in various mediums. It is informally referred to as the " Sundance of Radio". The festival was affiliated ...

. This international award for creative audio works was judged by

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presenter,

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. Other radio programs and podcasts Cox worked on include ''Radiotonic'', ''This is About'', ''All the Best'' and ''Long Story Short''. Cox also created the documentary theatre show ''Wael Zuaiter Unknown'', which he performed live as part of the 2014

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. The Sydney Morning Herald called Cox ''"a storyteller of great sensitivity and intelligence"'' in their review of this show. Cox created geo-locative smartphone audio works such as ''Ghosts of Biloela'', which was shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier's History Awards in the Multimedia History Prize category and described by the State Library of NSW judges as ''"an innovative, contemporary avenue to history...accessible to a broad audience"''. Cox won the 2017 'Innovation'

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for his role as executive producer of the ABC Radio National true-crime ''Trace'' podcast, alongside Rachael Brown and Jeremy Story Carter. In 2017, Director of ABC Radio, Michael Mason, described ''Trace'' as ''"ABC's most successful podcast"''. His work has been included in Next Wave Festival, Art & About, Underbelly Arts and

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Death

Jesse Cox died suddenly in December 2017 from a rare soft tissue cancer in his brain. His legacy is kept alive by his wife and child.

Awards

, - , 2013 , ''Keep Them Guessing'' radio documentary ,

/ Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition : Directors' Choice Award , , - , 2014 , ''The Real Tom Banks'' radio documentary ,

: Best Documentary - Silver Award , , - , 2017 , ''Ghosts of Biloela'' , NSW Premier's History Awards : Multimedia History Prize , , - , 2017 , ''Trace'' podcast ,

: Innovation Award ,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cox, Jesse 1986 births 2017 deaths Australian radio producers ABC radio (Australia) journalists and presenters Walkley Award winners