Charlotte Minter
Published April 18, 2026 3:56pm
Updated April 18, 2026 3:57pm
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Katie Brown said on Instagram post: ‘POV: you’re a junior reporter covering a marijuana raid and the wind changes’ (Picture: katiebrownaus/Instagram/Getty)
Katie Brown was a young TV reporter in Australia when she accidentally inhaled cannabis smoke during what appears to be a live cross.
In a throwback on her Instagram feed, she posted a video showing the moment she appeared to become choked by the fumes.
The reporter now works for Sunrise on 7, a weekday breakfast show in the Land Down Under, but started out with Nine news.
It was with them that she was ‘covering a marijuana raid when the wind changed’…
In her caption she wrote: ‘Don’t remember how my story finished, but I remember being so hungry all day. Throwback to maybe 2012/13 in Coffs Harbour!’
On Threads, justplanestupid remarked: ‘Coffs Harbour is the best possible name for the place 😂.’
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXLBvz9k9fA/
The video shows Katie mid-report with a blazing fire in the background. Speaking to viewers at home, she says: ‘Police have taken the cannabis to a private location to destroy.’
As she comes to the end of her sentence, a man’s laugh can be heard in the background before Katie doubles over after being engulfed in a plume of marijuana smoke.
She closes her eyes and opens her mouth wide as she looks to struggle with the fumes from what pinoyslice on Instagram called a ‘truck sized crop bong’.
Erinvholland also said in reference to her caption: ‘The fact you don’t remember which year is everything we need to know hahahaha.’
Others, like cowgirlsurf.club demanded more: ‘We need to see the full video 😂.’ And lozmarkham called it ‘iconic’.
Judging from the comments, Katie appears to be a well-loved member of the Seven Network, where she has worked for four and a half years.
Katie has now been with her current channel for nearly five years (Picture: katiebrownaus/Instagram)
The young reporter doubled over because of the smoke (Picture: katiebrownaus/Instagram)
She has a background in sports journalism and now works as a roving reporter for the channel, ‘giving away big prizes and meeting Sunrise viewers with extraordinary stories’ as it’s website informs.
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It’s not the only recent ‘throwback’ on her grid. Earlier this month Katie posted a video she created aged 21 while trying to get a job on Channel 10.
Accompanying the goofy video which begins with a close up of her open mouth, she wrote: ‘Life’s a bit serious and scary at the moment, so here’s a throwback Thursday for a laugh. […]
‘I remember I wanted this Taste Master job soooooo bad!’
She continued: ‘But I’m glad I lost that because now I do have the best job in the world!!’
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