Australian television journalist Tara Brown is reportedly back at work and shooting for a 60 Minutes assignment in the US.
She has not worked for the Nine Network program since the botched kidnapping of Sally Faulkner’s two young children in Lebanon.
Ms Faulkner and the 60 Minutes crew, including Brown, were jailed after the bungled operation but were able to return to Australia in April after Nine reached a plea bargain to secure the release of its staff.
Embattled Australian TV journalist Tara Brown (pictured) is reportedly back behind the camera for 60 Minutes on assignment in the US
She has not worked for the Nine Network program since the botched kidnapping of Sally Faulkner’s two young children in Lebanon
Ms Faulkner (centre right) and the 60 Minutes crew, including Brown (centre left), were jailed after the bungled operation but were able to return to Australia in April after Nine reached a plea bargain to secure the release of its staff
The man who allegedly organised the kidnapping, Australian-born recovery agent Adam Whittington and three of his staffers were also jailed in Lebanon and are set to be released on bail later this week after spending almost five months behind bars.
Brown took stress leave until Nine released the findings of their independent review into the case on May 27.
The troubled reporter has been back at the network’s head office in Willoughby, Sydney since early June.
TV Insider spied on Brown during a recent visit to the Sydney office and spotted her in full hair and makeup, chatting with co-workers, reportedly before recording new footage for 60 Minutes’ opening and closing credits, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Brown’s last appearance on the program was an interview with fellow reporter Michael Usher and followed the crew’s return to Australia after their release from jail in Lebanon.
‘I thought when we presented ourselves (in court) and were being questioned, I really thought: ‘We’re journalists, we’re doing our jobs’, they will see reason, they’ll understand that, you know, that we are here just to do a story on a very, very desperate mother. And I just thought that reason would prevail, and it didn’t,’ she said during the interview.
The troubled reporter has been back at the network’s head office in Willoughby (pictured), Sydney since early June
Ms Faulkner’s claims her children Noah and Lahela were taken to Lebanon by her estranged husband Ali Elamine (pictured with Noah and Lahela) in 2015 and he refused to bring them back
Brown’s last appearance on 60 Minutes was an interview with fellow reporter Michael Usher and followed the crew’s return to Australia after their release from jail in Lebanon (pictured)