ABC presenter Emma Alberici reveals a TV executive invited her back to his bedroom after she applied for a job aged 23
- Emma Alberici says she has never been subjected to sexual misconduct at work
- The ABC reporter said she was once invited back to a TV executive's hotel room
- Ms Alberici was 23 and taking part in her first television job interview at the time
- She said she was still given the job even after declining to go to the room
Veteran ABC reporter Emma Alberici says she was asked to return to the hotel room of a TV executive during a job interview when she was 23
Veteran television journalist Emma Alberici has revealed she was asked to return to a television executives hotel room during a job interview in her youth.
Ms Alberici told news.com.au she was 23 at the time and had disregarded the incident until claims of similar misconduct began to emerge from women around the world.
'The worst that happened to me — and I didn't actually see it as [misconduct]... but my first job interview in television, the executive asked me to go back to his hotel room,' she said.
Even as a budding reporter, Ms Alberici was unflappable in her response, and says she simply brushed off the request.
'I just kind of laughed it off and said, "Well that wouldn't look very good, would it? If I got the job then people would think that's how I got the job. And that would be bad for me",' she said.
The Lateline host explained her male interviewer let his request go dismissed, and still gave her the job.
Ms Alberici declined the offer, but still got the job. She said it left her believing perhaps the man had simply made a mistake
This turn of events left her wondering if perhaps the man had simply misread the situation, as opposed to him being a sexual predator.
'I think sometimes men forget about the power dynamic. What's appropriate and what's not appropriate becomes a little blurred in their heads,' she said.
'But, as I said, I still got the job and I said no. And that was respected. So, was that a really bad thing? I don't know.'
Ms Alberici does not deny there is a culture of men 'preying' on young women in the Australian media industry, simply notes she has never been the victim of any such misconduct.
The ABC reporter, who has hosted Lateline for the past six years, will host the current affairs show's final episode at 10.30pm on December 8.
The Lateline host says she knows there are many cases of men abusing their power over younger women, but said it had never really happened to her personally
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