The Digital Wing

Enjoying sunset in Havana, Cuba

Valerio Veo loves how technology and the media are coming together – so much so that he made it his career.

A journalist for more than a decade, Valerio started out as an eager if not smarmy ABC radio news reporter in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, moving around the country for five years before joining SBS TV news in 2002 and finally tossing it all in to pursue a career in new media, first at SBS, then at ninemsn in 2004.

He moulded the ninemsn news website into the biggest news site in the country, before taking on current affairs, redesigning ‘The Bulletin’ website (its last ever online incarnation before it was sadly laid to rest in 2008) and managed the online properties of Sunday, 60 Minutes and A Current Affair.

A football fanatic – he also enjoyed the trip of a lifetime covering The 2006 World Cup in Germany for ninemsn before being lured back to SBS.

He’s managed SBS News & Current Affairs Online since 2006 and is responsible for World News Australia, Dateline, Insight and Living Black.

World News Australia online was relaunched with great success in November 2008, being nominated as a finalist in the AIMIA awards and honoured in the news category of this year’s Webby Awards.

The redesign of Dateline has also been a success, and was nominated as a finalist in the news category in the 2010 AMIA awards.

In his spare time Val loves to read Wired, mess around on Twitter and likes to think himself as an aficionado of quality music, TV and food of all genres. His friends love to point out otherwise.