Philippa Jane "Pip" Courtney[1] is an Australian journalist and television presenter.
She then studied politics at the University of Tasmania, where she resided at Christ College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986.
[4] In 1993, Courtney joined Landline,[5] where she met cameraman John Bean during her first shoot; they married on 28 January 1999.
[6] On 18 August 2011, Bean, television journalist Paul Lockyer and pilot Gary Ticehurst died in a helicopter crash while filming at Lake Eyre in South Australia.
[7] In 2011, Courtney received the Star Prize for Broadcast Journalism from the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists for her Landline report, "Pipe Dream", about the coal seam gas industry.